Tuberculosis News

Posted July 22, 2009:

• Animal TB 'Tracker' Aims To Speed Drug And Vaccine Studies

Posted July 9, 2009:

• One Secret To How TB Sticks With You

Posted July 3, 2009:

• Existing Parkinson's Disease Drug May Fight Drug-Resistant TB

Posted June 30, 2009:

• Measurements Fail To Identify TB Patients Who Could Benefit From Shorter Treatment Course
• Scientists Solve Mystery About Why HIV Patients Are More Susceptible To TB Infection

Posted June 22, 2009:

• Carb Synthesis Sheds Light On Promising Tuberculosis Drug Target
• Fighting TB Might Be A Matter Of 'Flipping A Switch' In Immune Response

Posted June 13, 2009:

• Exploring New Therapy Strategies For Tuberculosis

Posted June 8, 2009:

• Unexpected Discovery Can Open A New Chapter In The Fight Against Tuberculosis

Posted May 22, 2009:

• Coordinated Pushback Could Help Contain Bovine Bacterial Diseases
• TB -- Hiding In Plain Sight

Posted May 19, 2009:

• TB Screening Needs To Be Targeted For Maximum Public Health Benefit, Study Suggests

Posted May 17, 2009:

• Infection Control 'Urgently Needed' To Curb Spread Of XDR-TB Among Health Care Workers

Posted May 11, 2009:

• LXR Proteins: New Target In The War On Tuberculosis?

Posted April 23, 2009:

• TB Vaccine Enters New Clinical Trials
• Excluding The Lateral View In Chest Radiograph Screenings Decreases Radiation Exposure By 67 Percent

Posted April 21, 2009:

• Rifampin Kinetics Poor In Children, Study Suggests

Posted April 20, 2009:

• Defining The Link Between Anti-TNF Therapies And Increased Tuberculosis

Posted April 15, 2009:

• Tijuana Injection Drug Users On Collision Course For HIV And TB

Posted April 10, 2009:

• Study Finds Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria High In Long-Term Care

Posted March 29, 2009:

• Slow-Growing TB Bacteria Point The Way To New Drug Development
• Transmission Of Drug Resistant HIV-1

Posted March 27, 2009:

• Discovery Of Tuberculosis Bacterium Enzyme Paves Way For New TB Drugs

Posted March 24, 2009:

• Alarming New Data Shows TB-HIV Co-Infection A Bigger Threat

Posted March 19, 2009:

• New TB Test Developed That Will Dramatically Cut Diagnosis Time

Posted March 16, 2009:

• UV Light Cuts Spread Of Tuberculosis

Posted March 3, 2009:

• TB Breakthrough Could Lead To Stronger Vaccine

Posted March 2, 2009:

• Doctors Call For Change In How Non-Active TB In Immigrant Children Treated

Posted February 26, 2009:

• Antibiotic Combination Defeats Extensively Drug-Resistant TB
• New Discovery Gives Tuberculosis Vaccine A Shot In The Arm
• New Tuberculosis Blood Test Is Useful Tool, If Used With Care

Posted February 18, 2009:

• TB Treatment Delays In Taiwan

Posted February 6, 2009:

• Long-Sought Protein Structure May Help Reveal How 'Gene Switch' Works

Posted February 1, 2009:

• Search For More Effective Tuberculosis Drugs

Posted January 26, 2009:

• Substance Use Common Among Patients With TB, Associated With Treatment Difficulties

Posted January 22, 2009:

• New Treatment Option For Latent Tuberculosis

Posted January 8, 2009:

• Findings Turn Events In Early TB Infection On Their Head, May Lead To New Therapy

Posted December 10, 2008:

• Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Rife In China

Posted November 27, 2008:

• Experimental TB Drug Explodes Bacteria From The Inside Out

Posted November 25, 2008:

• Resistance to TB Vaccine May Be Uncommon, Protects Against Nine Strains in Mice

Posted November 20, 2008:

• Stopping Germs From Ganging Up On Humans

Posted November 17, 2008:

• New Bacteria Discovered In Raw Milk

Posted November 14, 2008:

• Cellular Safety Shelters Allow TB Agent To Survive In Infected Individuals

Posted November 13, 2008:

• 100,000 Saved From Dying Of Tuberculosis

Posted November 11, 2008:

• Cases Of Extensively Drug-Resistant TB Declining Each Year In The US, But New Cases Still

Posted November 6, 2008:

• XDR-TB: Deadlier And More Mysterious Than Ever

Posted November 5, 2008:

• How Tuberculosis Might Be Thwarting Immune System: Proteomics Study Yields Clues

Posted November 3, 2008:

• Parasites That Live Inside Cells Use Loophole To Thwart Immune System

Posted November 2, 2008:

• Persistent Bacterial Infection Exploits Killing Machinery Of Immune Cells

Posted October 29, 2008:

• Health-Care Barriers For Undocumented Immigrants: Raising Tuberculosis Risk?

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