Medications

Researchers develop new tuberculosis treatment

Led by researchers at RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland), a team of researchers has developed a new treatment for tuberculosis (TB). This work could offer a practical treatment that has the potential to be scaled-up ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

HIV: The benefits of prophylaxis of tuberculosis are confirmed

A long-term follow-up study in the ANRS TEMPRANO trial confirms that tuberculosis chemoprophylaxis in HIV-infected people is more than ever relevant in resource-limited countries. This prophylactic use of drugs reduces mortality, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Parasite protein could help inform new anti-tuberculosis strategies

Proteins produced by the parasite that causes toxoplasmosis may be involved in immune system processes that can help fight mycobacteria, according to a new study. The findings, published in PLOS Pathogens, suggest that these ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Babies, mothers possibly exposed to TB at Calif. hospital

A Northern California hospital says hundreds of babies, mothers and employees may have been exposed to a nurse with tuberculosis and that the infants will need an antibiotic treatment.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Worst TB outbreak in five years hits Alabama prisons

Health officials say Alabama's badly overcrowded prison system that is being sued over medical treatment of inmates is dealing with its worst outbreak of tuberculosis in five years.

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