Tag: Drug Resistance

Opioid Crisis: How COVID-19 Has Accelerated Addiction Risk

May 4, 2021

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Pie Mulumba

in Anti-Aging, United States, Wellness Blogs

What happens when two epidemics meet? The opioid epidemic has been one of the most growing public health emergencies in American history. As such, it wasn’t long before the top two public health emergencies met and created a bigger crisis. According to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released in…
FDA Approved Medicine Offers New Hope For TB Sufferers

Sep 9, 2019

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Guest Writer

in Anti-Aging

Until quite recently, people suffering from highly drug-resistant tuberculosis had poor treatment options and a poor prognosis. However, a new medicine for people with the worst cases of TB is now giving hope where almost none existed. Developed by scientists at the New York–based non-profit TB Alliance, the new pill is called pretomanid. The U.S.…