Patients of today must learn the lessons of the superbug war in order not to get sucked into it themselves. And that begins by reading this article. FIGURES available four years ago had estimated 44,000 new multi-drug resistant (MDR) cases recorded around the world. And around 150,000 people have died. The old strains continue to be more lethal even than that of the new entrants. And experts the world over have agreed that the central cause of the blame has been the mismanagement in the treatment of tuberculosis. Know how these errors in treatment can help us detect any error made by the physician handling our case as well as our role in this debacle. Based on the review that Meghna Adhvaryu and Bhasker Vakharia conducted and published December last year in Clinical Pharmacology: Advances and Applications, here are indicators of potential mismanagement to be wary of: First is... [ READ MORE ] This article appears in SunStar Cebu newspaper on 14 Nove
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