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Polypharmacy

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Optimized Background Regimen for Treatment of Active Tuberculosis with the Next-Generation Benzothiazinone Macozinone (PBTZ169)

Stewart Cole, Anthony Vocat, Shi-Yan Caroline Foo, Andréanne Lupien, Jean-Yves Gillon

The efficacy of the standardized four-drug regimen (comprising isoniazid, rifampin, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol) for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) is menaced by the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drugresistant (XDR) strains of ...

AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY2018

More Medicines for Tuberculosis: Fuelling Drug Discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Shi-Yan Caroline Foo

Tuberculosis (TB), whose etiological agent is Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis), has plagued humanity since antiquity. Even with chemotherapy available today, TB is the leading cause of death due to an infectious disease. Modern day factors, suc ...

EPFL2018

TUCUXI: TUCUXI: An Intelligent System for Personalized Medicine from Individualization of Treatments to Research Databases and Back

Karl Aberer, Yann Thoma, Michael Ignaz Schumacher, Thierry Buclin, Alevtina Dubovitskaya

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) is a key concept in precision medicine. The goal of TDM is to avoid therapeutic failure or toxic effects of a drug due to insufficient or excessive circulating concentration exposure related to between-patient variability ...

2017

Safe Implementation of Embedded Software for a Portable Device Supporting Drug Administration

Giovanni De Micheli, Yann Thoma, Alena Simalatsar, Wenqi You Dubout

Poor adherence to medical regimen causes approximately 33% to 69% of medication-related hospitalizations and accounts for $100 billion in annual health care costs. In this paper we address the problem of unintentional non adherence, when patient fails to t ...

IEEE2014

New antituberculosis drugs, regimens, and adjunct therapies: needs, advances, and future prospects

Stewart Cole

About 1.3 million people died of tuberculosis in 2012, despite availability of effective drug treatment. Barriers to improvements in outcomes include long treatment duration (resulting in poor patient adherence and loss of patients to follow-up), complex r ...

Elsevier Science Inc2014

Monitoring of illicit pill distribution networks using an image collection exploration framework

Luc Patiny, Julien Wist

This paper proposes a novel approach for the analysis of illicit tablets based on their visual characteristics. In particular, the paper concentrates on the problem of ecstasy pill seizure profiling and monitoring. The presented method extracts the visual ...

Elsevier Ireland Ltd2012

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