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| Confused About Tuberculosis Headlines? Get the Facts
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| 6,000-year-old bones could help combat TB
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| Scientists find sufficient DNA to provide clues to how tuberculosis evolves.
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July 14, 2008 |
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| A new inhaled TB vaccine
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| A new tuberculosis vaccine successfully tested at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is easier to administer and store and just as effective as one commonly used worldwide.
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March 17, 2008 |
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| Chicago Man Dies From Tuberculosis
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| The Cook County, Illinois, medical examiner says a Schiller Park man has died after testing positive for miliary tuberculosis.
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March 10, 2008 |
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| Common Vitamin And Other Micronutrient Supplements Reduce Risks Of TB Recurrence
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| New findings show a link between micronutrient supplementation and reduced risk of recurrence during tuberculosis chemotherapy, according to a new study.
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April 27, 2008 |
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| Diabetes may increase risk of developing TB
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| High blood sugar levels impair ability to respond to infection, research finds.
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July 15, 2008 |
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| Drug resistant TB 'rising in UK'
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| Drug resistant tuberculosis is posing a growing threat in the UK, probably fuelled by immigration, say experts.
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May 2, 2008 |
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| Drug-Resistant TB Spreading Faster Than Experts Feared
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| Drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading even faster than medical experts had feared, the World Health Organization warned in report issued Tuesday. The rate of TB patients infected with the drug-resistant strain topped 20 percent in some countries, the highest ever recorded.
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February 27, 2008 |
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| Efforts To Eliminate Tuberculosis In US By 2010 Fall Far Short Of Benchmarks
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| Latent TB infection (LTBI) prevalence in the 1999-2000 U.S. population (excluding homeless and incarcerated individuals) was found to be 4.2 percent, according to the survey. The current infection rate would have to be 1 percent and decreasing if the U.S. were on course to reach its goal of TB incidence of less than one per million by 2010. These are the first survey-based national LBTI estimates since 1971-1972.
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February 5, 2008 |
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| Elucidating Iron Transport Mechanisms In Tuberculosis Bug Identifies New TB Drug Targets
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| It is pathetically true that Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of TB is still thriving the test of scientific interventions despite affecting almost one -third of the worlds' population. The fact that it takes approximately one human life every 15 second somewhere in the world is an unfortunate death statistics unmatched by any other microbe.
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May 8, 2008 |
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| Feds: Passenger on Plane with Infected Woman Tests Positive for TB
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| A passenger on an American Airlines flight from India who sat near a woman with drug-resistant tuberculosis has tested positive for TB, federal health officials said.
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April 17, 2008 |
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| HIV-TB Spreads In Africa, Undermines Control Of World's Two Deadliest Infectious Diseases
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| The largely unnoticed collision of the global epidemics of HIV and tuberculosis (TB) has exploded to create a deadly co-epidemic that is rapidly spreading in sub-Saharan Africa.
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November 4, 2007 |
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| How Can We Overcome The Barriers To Treating Drug-resistant TB?
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| Almost 1 in 20 cases of tuberculosis worldwide is resistant to multiple drugs (known as multidrug-resistant TB or MDR-TB) and the World Health Organization has called for a massive scale up in public health efforts to tackle these cases.
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July 10, 2008 |
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| How TB Develops Invincibility Against Only Available Treatment
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| Scientists at the University of Leicester have uncovered a dramatic new twist in the battle against TB.
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March 18, 2008 |
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| How Tuberculosis Bacteria Hide And Multiply In The Human Body
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| Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute have discovered how tuberculosis (TB) bacteria hide and multiply in the human body and are working toward a treatment to block this mechanism of infection.
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May 15, 2008 |
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| Kenyan Health Ministry launches HIV, TB communication campaign to reduce stigma, discrimination among health workers
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| The East African on Monday examined how a campaign recently launched in Kenya to increase awareness about HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis will affect health care workers in the country.
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June 8, 2008 |
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| Latent TB Treatment Saves Time, Money, And Lives
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| A new way to treat patients with latent tuberculosis (TB), who are infected with TB but without symptoms, can effectively treat it in less than half the time and at a lower cost than the current standard treatment, according to researchers who conducted a multi-center, randomized controlled trial.
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May 23, 2008 |
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| Lawmakers Call for Probe of U.S. Entry of 2nd Tuberculosis Patient
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| Lawmakers are calling for an investigation into why a Mexican national infected with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis - the second such case this year - was allowed entry across the U.S. border multiple times.
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October 19, 2007 |
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| New Cases Of TB Appear In San Diego County
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| Two new cases of tuberculosis have surfaced in San Diego County.
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August 15, 2007 |
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| New Chemical Can Kill Latent Tuberculosis Bacteria, Study Shows
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| The discovery also points to new ways of thinking about fighting bacterial infection, which is becoming increasingly resistant to traditional antibiotics.
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March 18, 2008 |
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| New compounds for treating tuberculosis and malaria
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| University of Navarra PhD in chemistry researcher, Esther Vicente, has discovered new compounds active for treating tuberculosis and malaria.
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January 23, 2008 |
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| New Drug Targets May Fight Tuberculosis And Other Bacterial Infections In Novel Way
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| Over the course of the 20th Century, doctors waged war against infectious bacterial illness with the best new weapon they had: antibiotics.
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December 31, 2007 |
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| New TB Test Means Quicker And Easier Diagnosis For Patients
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| A new blood test could enable doctors to rule out tuberculosis (TB) infection within days rather than weeks, according to a new study.
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March 11, 2008 |
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| Older Antibiotic Gains New Respect As Potent Treatment For Tuberculosis
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| It has no current market, not even a prescription price. Its makers stopped commercial production years ago, because demand was so low. But an antibiotic long abandoned as a weak, low-dose treatment for tuberculosis (TB) may have found renewed purpose, this time as a potent, high-dose fighter against the most common and actively contagious form of the lung disease.
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December 20, 2007 |
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| One-third of people with TB in U.S. unaware of HIV status
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| The study examined data from the National TB Surveillance System from 1993 to 2005 for 49 states and Washington, D.C. According to the study, reporting of HIV status among people living with TB increased from 35% in 1993 to 68% in 2003 and leveled off during 2004 and 2005.
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October 29, 2007 |
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| Potential new weapon against TB: free cell minutes
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| Researchers at MIT believe they've discovered a new weapon in the battle against tuberculosis: Free cell phone minutes.
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June 14, 2008 |
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| Potential treatment for TB solves puzzle
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| Scientists have uncovered a new target for the potential treatment of TB, finally resolving a long-running debate about how the bacterial cell wall is built.
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July 13, 2008 |
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| Promising New TB Drug Given Special Status By US And European Regulators
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| Approximately one-third of the world's population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB, and an estimated 1.6 million people died of the disease in 2005.
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October 25, 2007 |
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| Rapid test for drug resistant TB
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| A two-pronged initiative aims to speed up diagnosis and treatment of people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in developing countries.
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June 30, 2008 |
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| Scientists Find Way to Shorten TB Recovery Time
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| Patients suffering from tuberculosis (TB) may recover sooner rather than later, following a recent study, which reduced the estimated six months of TB treatment time to four months.
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September 18, 2007 |
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| Scientists Zero In on Cell Envelope of Tuberculosis Bacterium
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| The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science is reporting that a group of investigators from the Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany has some news about our old friend, TB. They discovered that mycobacterial outer membrane is composed of a distinct lipid bilayer, in addition to a previously known layer of mycolic acids.
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March 7, 2008 |
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| Source Of Drug-tolerant Tuberculosis Possibly Behind TB Relapses, Intensity Of Treatment
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| University of Pittsburgh-led researchers discovered that the primary bacteria behind tuberculosis can grow on surfaces and that drug-tolerant strains flourish in these bacterial communities, the research team recently reported in Molecular Microbiology. The findings suggest a possible reason why human tuberculosis (TB) requires months of intensive antibiotic treatment and indicate a potential cause of the relapses that can nonetheless occur.
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June 13, 2008 |
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| Survival Of The Fattest: TB Accumulates Fat To Survive, And To Spread
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| Medical scientists from the University of Leicester, together with colleagues from St Georges, University of London, funded principally by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and The Wellcome Trust, have published details of a new breakthrough discovery on TB.
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April 3, 2008 |
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| TB appears again in the U.S.
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| Officials from the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment in the U.S. say a Nepalese student at Colorado State University-Pueblo who died of tuberculosis in June, probably infected 17 other people.
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November 26, 2007 |
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| TB back in the news again in the U.S.
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| After years of hearing very little news on tuberculosis (TB), these days it seems to appear in the news on an almost weekly basis.
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August 1, 2007 |
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| TB patient jailed in the U.S flees 'abuse' for safety of Russia
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| A tuberculosis patient, confined in a hospital jail ward in Arizona since August 2006 has fled the country apparently because he could no longer tolerate the abuse metered out to him.
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October 9, 2007 |
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| TB Strain May Be Linked To Unpasteurized Dairy
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| The incidence of a strain of tuberculosis (TB) called Mycobacterium bovis, or M. bovis, associated more often with cattle than humans, is increasing in San Diego and is concentrated mostly in Hispanics of Mexican origin, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in collaboration with San Diego County public health officials. Their analysis shows that changing patterns of TB in the United States are increasingly being driven by conditions outside of the country, especially in binational communities.
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May 6, 2008 |
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| TB Treatment For Elderly Likely Requires Boost To Immune Response
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| Mathematical modeling of how mice respond to TB infection suggests that potential therapy options for elderly TB patients could either increase their white blood cell count or enhance infected cells' interaction with their immune system.
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June 12, 2008 |
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| Test gives quick results for drug-resistant TB
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| Four African countries to roll out less expensive, speedier test.
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June 30, 2008 |
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| Tests Successful on Inhaled Tuberculosis Vaccine
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| A new tuberculosis vaccine successfully tested at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is easier to administer and store and just as effective as one commonly used worldwide.
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March 17, 2008 |
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| Tests: No One Sickened With TB From Globe-Trotting Lawyer Andrew Speaker
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| Tests of hundreds of airline passengers show that no one caught tuberculosis while flying earlier this year with an infected man who caused an international health scare when he flew to Europe for his wedding.
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November 28, 2007 |
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| The focus on HIV/AIDS has helped forget the threat of tuberculosis
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| A leading Australian expert has warned that the international attention devoted to HIV/AIDS has dwarfed the threat of tuberculosis (TB).
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March 25, 2008 |
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| Tuberculosis Antibiotic Nasal Spray May Alleviate Social Anxiety
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| A nasal spray containing an antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis may help people get over their fear of public speaking and socializing, according to a study published in Britain's Telegraph.
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October 23, 2007 |
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| Tuberculosis Bacterium Is Double-protected, 3-D Images Show
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| The first 3-D images that disclose a double membrane surrounding mycobacteria were recorded by Martinsried scientists, ending a long scientific debate about the mycobacterial outer membrane and opening new pathways to improve the development of chemotherapeutic substances against tuberculosis.
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March 23, 2008 |
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| Tuberculosis found in 500,000-year-old human
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| Although most scientists believe tuberculosis emerged only several thousand years ago, new research from The University of Texas at Austin reveals the most ancient evidence of the disease has been found in a 500,000-year-old human fossil from Turkey.
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December 10, 2007 |
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| Tuberculosis May Have Migrated From Humans To Cattle, Not The Reverse
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| Tuberculosis may call to mind Old West consumptives and early 20th-century sanatoriums, yet according to the World Health Organization, the disease took the lives of more than 1.5 million people worldwide in 2006. In the United States alone, thousands of new cases are reported annually making TB an enduring menace.
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July 9, 2008 |
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| Tuberculosis Not The Only Risk From New Immunological Drugs
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| A new survey cautions physicians that drugs commonly prescribed for patients suffering from immunological disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease may carry risks of serious infections other than the known risk of tuberculosis.
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May 23, 2008 |
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| Tuberculosis: Growing Problem at Home and Abroad
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| It was honeymooner Andrew Speaker, an attorney from Atlanta, who touched off an international health scare last May when he flew to Europe knowing he had a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis.
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April 21, 2008 |
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| Twenty five babies tested for rare TB in Melbourne hospital scare
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| Following the birth of a premature baby in a Melbourne hospital late last year with a rare form of tuberculosis (TB), blood tests are being carried out on 25 babies who were also in the hospital at the time of his birth.
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January 22, 2008 |
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| Twist in the battle against TB
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| Scientists at the University of Leicester have uncovered a dramatic new twist in the battle against TB.
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March 16, 2008 |
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| U.S. health officials search for air travellers exposed to drug-resistant TB
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| Health officials in the United States are again trying to track down dozens of airline passengers who may have been inadvertently exposed to tuberculosis (TB).
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January 2, 2008 |
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| U.S. Senate forgoes agreement on AIDS, TB, and malaria bill until after G8 summit
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| World Vision commends the U.S. Senate for approving increases for hunger and developmental assistance for fiscal years 2008 and 2009 in the Supplemental Appropriations Act, including $850 million in the first year to address the global food crisis.
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July 3, 2008 |
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| WHO warns the fight against TB has slowed down
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| A new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on tuberculosis (TB) has revealed that the pace of the progress to control the TB epidemic has slowed down.
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March 18, 2008 |
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| Zimbabwe HIV/AIDS organizations call for integration of TB interventions into country's HIV/AIDS programs
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| The Zimbabwe government should integrate tuberculosis interventions into its HIV/AIDS programs, HIV/AIDS service organizations and other health advocates said at a recent forum hosted by the Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Information Dissemination Service in the country's capital of Harare, the Herald reports.
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May 28, 2008 |
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