World TB day: How newer oral drugs helped Mumbai fashion designer recover with fewer side effects | Health and Wellness News

World TB day: How newer oral drugs helped Mumbai fashion designer recover with fewer side effects | Health and Wellness News

At 31, Laxmi Asrani has battled drug-resistant tuberculosis, the kind that’s compounding India’s disease burden, twice. Once when she lost her father to it and the other when she herself contracted it. Now, after two years of therapy and persistence, this young fashion designer from Mumbai has recovered and has a double purpose — that …

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