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Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Rises, But New Treatments In The Pipeline
September 24, 2007 — An arsenal of promising new medications, vaccines, and diagnostic tests are moving toward the global battlefield that pits medicine against drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), which is claiming a ... > full story -
New Antibiotic Drug Combo To Speed Up Treatment Of Tuberculosis
September 18, 2007 — A team of tuberculosis experts have evidence that substituting the antibiotic moxifloxacin in the regimen of drugs used to treat the highly contagious form of lung disease could dramatically shorten ... > full story -
Promising New Targets For Antibiotics Found
August 30, 2007 — Researchers have identified new sites on the bacterial cell's protein-making machinery where antibiotics can be delivered to treat infections. They tested many options. Of the thousands of mutations ... > full story -
Researchers Suggest TB Screening For All International Adoptees
August 9, 2007 — Researchers stress that all children adopted from outside North America should be screened for tuberculosis. The study shows that in the Canadian province of Alberta, from 2004-2006, 40 percent of ... > full story -
Handicapping Tuberculosis May Be The Way To A Better Vaccine
August 2, 2007 — Scientists have produced a genetically altered strain of tuberculosis, that elicits a stronger immune response than the current vaccine, bacillus Calmette-Guérin. The new vaccine improves ... > full story -
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Medical Residents Score Poorly In Diagnosing And Managing Tuberculosis
August 1, 2007 — When quizzed about their knowledge in diagnosing tuberculosis and deciding on the best treatment, medical residents in Baltimore and Philadelphia get almost half the answers wrong, according to a ... > full story -
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Tuberculosis: Patients Face Difficulties With Ongoing Treatments
July 24, 2007 — Tuberculosis (TB) is a major killer, causing up to two million deaths worldwide every year. Treatment takes many months and many patients fail to complete the course of drugs prescribed. Now a study ... > full story -
Researchers Find Way To Starve TB
July 22, 2007 — Sleuthing through soil has led researchers to a key discovery about the world's most lethal infection -- tuberculosis (TB). Scientists looked at similarities in the function of enzymes involved in ... > full story -
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Pre-Kindergarten TB Testing Not Cost Effective, Study Finds
July 2, 2007 — The health care system in California could save nearly $1.3 million a year with few adverse public health effects if it discontinued universal tuberculosis skin testing of children entering ... > full story -
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Obesity Associated With A Lower Risk Of Tuberculosis In Older Chinese Population
June 25, 2007 — Obese or overweight Chinese individuals age 65 and older have a lower risk of developing tuberculosis than those at a normal weight, according to a recent ... > full story
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