Breaking News: She had drug-resistant tuberculosis and weighed just 57 pounds when she entered a drug trial. The medicines that saved her are now F.D.A. approved.

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BREAKING NEWS She had drug-resistant tuberculosis and weighed just 57 pounds when she entered a drug trial. The medicines that saved her are now F.D.A. approved. Wednesday, August 14, 2019 3:00 PM EST Once, a diagnosis of extensively drug-resistant TB meant quick death. A new drug regimen cures most patients in just months. Five years after the treatment, Tsholofelo Msimang, who became the South African trial’s fifth enrolled patient, is now tuberculosis-free. Read More »

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