Expensive Drugs, Challenge to Tuberculosis Treatment in Nigeria

Expensive Drugs, Challenge to Tuberculosis Treatment in Nigeria

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Medical experts have warned that the trend should be quickly checked in order to forestall what they described as "imminent and total collapse of the efficacy of the available first-line drugs for TB treatment." According to Dr … Cambodia which has …
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Who helps when adoptions unravel?

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The parents, whom The Arizona Republic is not naming to protect the identity of their children, some of whom were victims, believed their best hope was to temporarily give the boy back to CPS, which placed him in residential treatment, because they …
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OxyContin use down in Vt. but heroin use increases

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Lt. Matt Birmingham, head of the Vermont Drug Task Force, likened the situation to Whac-a-Mole. Once one problem is addressed, another … There were nine in 2011 and six so far this year, according to figures provided by the state Health Department …
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