DR-TB
Daily Round-up | J&J anti-TB drug loses patent extension bid in India & other stories

In today’s episode, we look at a verdict from India that will bring relief to patients of drug-resistant TB, the dismissal of workers from a factory in Myanmar and the ban on transgender athletes from participating in women’s events

Patent Opposition Filed For Johnson And Johnson’s TB Medicine

Nandita Venkatesan and her co-petitioner from South Africa, Phumeza Tisile, are challenging a further extension of the patent that Johnson & Johnson has applied for the salt form of the drug, bedaquline that could be of vital importance in treating drug-resistant TB