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If you go by the books, Hip-Hop (I’ll spell it with capital letters since KRS-One told us to do so) turns 40 years old this month. Six summers before Big Bank Hank, Wonder Mike and Master Gee drove a Lincoln Continental and great big Cadillac up the charts to a Top 40 hit, the culture we collectively love was existing in the parks and rec centers, powered by the search for the perfect beat, the spirit of competition—and of course, stolen electricity.

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Rebecca Stevens (R), a field worker for the National Tuberculosis Program, gives medicine to a young girl. (Getty)

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a tuberculosis drug, making it the first new medicine to fight the deadly infection in more than four decades.

The agency approved Johnson & Johnson’s pill, Sirturo, for use with older drugs to fight a hard-to-treat strain of tuberculosis that has not responded to other medications. However, the agency cautioned that the drug does carry risks of potentially deadly heart problems and should be prescribed carefully by doctors.

Roughly, one-third of the world’s population is estimated to be infected with the bacteria causing tuberculosis. While the disease is rare in the U.S., it does kill about 1.4 million people worldwide. Of those, about 150,000 succumb to the increasingly common drug-resistant forms of the disease. About 60 percent of all cases are concentrated in China, India, Russia and Eastern Europ

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