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New Tuberculosis Treatments (Drugs & Regimens)

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the pathogen “Mycobacterium tuberculosis” – a bacterium with a waxy coating on its cellular surface due to the presence of mycolic acid. Although tuberculosis is often successfully treated with antibiotics and so…

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New Anxiety Medications (2022) (Clinical Trials)

Anxiety medications (i.e. anxiolytics) are drugs that prove safe, tolerable, and effective in clinical trials for the treatment of “anxiety” or chronic stress. Many people derive either: (A) significant or (B) partial – therapeutic benefit from currently-avail…

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New Antidepressants 2022 (Clinical Trials)

Antidepressants: (1) They help some, (2) they don’t do much for others (maybe cause emotional blunting/numbness), and (3) they worsen preexisting depression and/or cause new-onset symptoms such as anxiety for another subset of users. The treatment of depressio…

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Semaglutide & Weight Loss: Another Pharma Scam?

On June 4, 2021, the FDA approved a new weight loss drug called Wegovy (Semaglutide). That said, technically the drug is not new – it was initially approved in 2017 under the brand name Ozempic as an adjunct treatment for type 2 diabetes. Wegovy (Semaglutide)…

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