TUESDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) -- Using the drug Rifampin to treat people with latent tuberculosis saves time, money and lives, new research shows.
"We found that using a therapy of four months of Rifampin instead of the current nine months of Isoniazid costs significantly less for the health-care system," lead analyst Anne Aspler, of the respiratory epidemiology and clinical research unit at McGill University's Montreal Chest Clinic, said in a prepared statement.
