Approval of Novel TB Drug Celebrated—With Restraint

作者: J. Cohen

DOI: 10.1126/SCIENCE.339.6116.130

关键词: Family medicineTuberculosisDrugPharmacologyFood and drug administrationMedicineBedaquiline

摘要: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug, bedaquiline, for only patients who have multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, which can require up to 2 years of treatment. It is first new tuberculosis drug be green-lighted in more than 40 years, but celebration was tempered as sobering challenges face drug9s wide scale use.

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