tuberculosis

Siemens and Qure.ai team up for TB screening

Siemens Healthineers and Qure.ai to deploy AI-powered chest X-ray screening for TB

19 October 2023

Anika Sharma

Siemens Healthineers, in collaboration with Qure.ai and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, is intensifying efforts to ...

Johnson & Johnson Offers Global Access by Not Enforcing Sirturo’s Tuberculosis Drug Secondary Patents

3 October 2023

Anika Sharma

Johnson & Johnson has taken significant steps to improve access to its multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) medication, Sirturo (bedaquiline), in low- ...

Johnson & Johnson, tuberculosis, patent rights, generic competition, Sirturo, bedaquiline

J&J cuts TB drug price by 55% after giving up patent rights

31 August 2023

Anika Sharma

Just seven weeks after announcing its willingness to permit generic competition for the drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) treatment Sirturo (bedaquiline) in ...