The definition of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) has been revised by the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Global TB Programme, who have also defined pre-XDR-TB for the first time, ...

A global expert working group has developed guidelines for defining treatment response and resistance in patients with schizophrenia, something that is desperately needed to guide the next generation ...

Data from southeast Asia -- where artemisinin-resistant malaria strains were first detected -- broadly support WHO's 'working definition' for artemisinin resistance, but the currently used definitions ...

One of the largest global public health crises is the rise of antimicrobial-resistant infections. Globally, over 700,000 people die from antimicrobial-resistant infections annually and this number is ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has published a report on the definition of treatment-resistant depression (TRD), and the absence of a consensus definition seems to inhibit ...