'Virtually Untreatable' Tuberculosis Threat Rising: Study

'Virtually Untreatable' Tuberculosis Threat Rising: Study

Filed under: drug treatment news 2012

Almost half of tuberculosis patients who received prior treatment were resistant to a second-line drug, suggesting the deadly disease may become “virtually untreatable,” according to a new study. Among 1,278 patients who were resistant to two or more …
Read more on Businessweek

Phone therapy helps some with marijuana dependence

Filed under: drug treatment news 2012

NEW YORK | Thu Aug 30, 2012 3:56pm EDT. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) … Gates and his colleagues wrote in the journal Addiction that there's already evidence to support in-person talk therapy for marijuana dependence. To see if that success would …
Read more on Reuters

From Twitter:

RT @BloombergNews: ‘Virtually untreatable” tuberculosis threat is on the rise: study | http://t.co/qhOFDNFS – by lynberg3 (ana lynberg grupo)

From Twitter:

TB. Black Swan Risk? RT @BloombergNews: ‘Virtually untreatable” tuberculosis threat is on the rise: study | http://t.co/I4CQILgC #health – by christopherhire (Christopher Hire)

From Twitter:

We now don’t have antibiotics to fight some infections RT @BloombergNews Virtually Untreatable Tuberculosis Rising http://t.co/aBzvzZxB – by robinwhitsell (Robin Whitsell)