News 2025
14.03.2025
Open letter: Experts urge urgent expansion of Pretomanid label to improve tuberculosis treatment access in Europe
A coalition of leading tuberculosis (TB) experts and medical societies is calling for an urgent expansion of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) label for pretomanid, a key drug in the fight against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB). This appeal aligns with the latest World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and aims to improve patient access to more effective and tolerable treatment regimens.
12.03.2025
Rising antibiotic resistance threatens tuberculosis control in Ukraine
A recent study by researchers from the National University V.N. Karazin in Kharkiv, the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, and the Borstel Research Centre, Leibniz Lung Centre, shows an alarming increase in fluoroquinolone resistance in patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis in eastern Ukraine.
05.03.2025
And the winner is...
... Dr. Olha Shchudro. In the winter semester 2024/2025, an international group of pulmonologists conducted an online lecture series on Respiratory Medicine for colleagues in Ukraine in cooperation with the V.N. Karazin University in Kharkiv. Every Friday at 15:00 local time for 17 weeks, a topic area of Respiratory Medicine was covered for one hour via video conference.
