Monday, January 3, 2011

Potential new treatments for hepatitis B and tuberculosis

A researcher and his team with the University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry have discovered a new class of drugs that could one day be used to treat people with hepatitis B. They have also made a similar discovery for the treatment of tuberculosis.

Working with cultures in his lab, Rakesh Kumar and his colleagues have discovered a new class of drugs for hepatitis B that does three important things: it is effective against the normal strain of the hepatitis B

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