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Novelist John Green launches attack on Cepheid over the price of its TB test

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John Green, a novelist and high-profile YouTuber, is once again leveraging his star power in the global fight to end tuberculosis. The diagnostics company Cepheid and the price of its tuberculosis test, GeneXpert. Tuberculosis kills 1.5 His latest target? Cepheid sells individual test cartridges for $9.98

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A history of Johnson & Johnson

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One of these new areas was HIV/AIDS, which came about through the acquisition of Tibotec-Virco BVBA, to help address the vast unmet needs of patients with these diseases and other infectious diseases like tuberculosis. For all the latest pharma news on Johnson & Johnson, follow pharmaphorum’s J&J and Janssen tags.

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Medical Terms

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Skin tags 皮赘 - Small, soft, skin-coloured growths on your skin. Tuberculosis (TB) 结核 - A potentially serious infectious disease caused by bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis, that mainly affects the lungs. Signs 体征 - An objective, observable phenomenon that can be identified by another person. Somnambulism 梦游 - Sleepwalking.