Governments from around the world will gather Wednesday to discuss the persistent scourge of tuberculosis, which last year claimed more lives than any other communicable disease.
Sep 26, 2018
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The United Nations General Assembly is now calling for the establishment of prevention programs to reduce Tuberculosis (TB) among miners and other workers exposed to silica dust. This declaration was released in advance of ...
Sep 25, 2018
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Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed the first non-antibiotic drug to successfully treat tuberculosis in animals.
Sep 11, 2018
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela once emphasized that the war against AIDS could not be won without confronting the country's tuberculosis epidemic. For the last 16 years, a group of Yale researchers in the Yale ...
Aug 28, 2018
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Tuberculosis is one of the world's deadliest infectious disease. Worldwide, there are still about 10.4 million cases of TB and 1.7 million deaths every year.
Aug 17, 2018
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University of Otago researchers have discovered a novel property of a new anti-tuberculosis drug which may help develop more drugs to treat the top infectious disease killer in the world.
Jul 3, 2018
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Scientists at Trinity College Dublin and St James's Hospital, Dublin, have discovered how vitamin A drives the lung immune system to deal with tuberculosis (TB). The findings have just been published in a top respiratory ...
Jun 13, 2018
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Research carried out by St George's, University of London into tuberculosis treatments has clearly shown the 'persistent bacteria' that make treating the disease so difficult for the first time, using a new combination therapy.
Jun 1, 2018
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The informal settlement of Khayelitsha in Cape Town is the latest site of a multi country trial that aims to transform the treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB).
May 28, 2018
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Studies in mice and in tissue cultures suggest that giving vitamin C with tuberculosis drugs could reduce the unusually long time it takes these drugs to eradicate this pathogen. The research is published in Antimicrobial ...
Jan 3, 2018
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