http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Tuberculosis, now largely controlled in the industrialized world, remains a stubbornly persistent killer in most of Africa, as well as parts of Asia and South America. The spread of multidrug-resistant strains of TB has slowed progress against the devastating disease, which is estimated to strike more than 10 million people annually. Now a modified soft-drink cooler, developed by researchers at MIT's D-Lab, could make a dent in the disease's impact. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-simple-cooler-tuberculosis-drugs-doses.html Medical research Wed, 30 May 2012 10:41:18 EST news257593267 South African researchers said Friday they were conducting medical trials to shorten the duration of tuberculosis treatment to make it easier for patients to complete the full regimen. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-safrica-trials-shorter-tb-treatment.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:38:14 EST news252319081 Indian doctors have reported the country's first cases of "totally drug-resistant tuberculosis," a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-india-tb-strain-resistant-drugs.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:04:16 EST news245952233 Belgian physicians report they have cured a young patient with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) using a novel two-drug combination developed by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. The report, published in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, marks the first known clinical use of this treatment for XDR-TB, the most deadly form of the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-girl-life-therapy-drug-resistant-tb.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 11 May 2011 09:31:19 EST news224325038