Martin Shkreli claimed raising an HIV-drug price 5500% would allow for more research. But my experiences with a TB drug show that doesn’t happenCycloserine is a nasty drug – it can accomplish patients psychotic, aggressive and even suicidal. But the 50-year-old drug is also one of the only available treatments for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. Doctors and nursing staff from Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) exercise it in over 20 countries.
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Source: theguardian.com