Topic: Tuberculosis

Reuters US Online Report World News | 2010-01-05 23:13:56

GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - China, saddled with the world's second largest tuberculosis burden after India, is fighting an uphill battle against drug-resistant forms of the disease which will only drain the country's health budget. Drug-resistant TB, far more expensive to treat, emerges when patients fail to follow treatment regimens and take substandard drugs or stop treatment too early. Liu ...

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AP News | 2009-12-27 12:15:40
First case of extremely drug-resistant TB found in US, other killer diseases return

It started with a cough, an autumn hack that refused to go away. Then came the fevers. They bathed and chilled the skinny frame of Oswaldo Juarez, a 19-year-old Peruvian visiting to study English. His lungs clattered, his chest tightened and he ached with every gasp. During ...

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Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-12-07 20:16:56

CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - In Uganda, health experts are getting laboratories ready and preparing villagers in two districts for a large clinical trial to test the world's first experimental tuberculosis vaccine in nearly a century. For Anne Wajja, a doctor who heads TB vaccine studies in Uganda, this could be the start of a turning point. "New TB drugs and ...

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Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-12-05 18:39:22

CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - A study involving 128 South African families has identified genetic traits that may protect some people from tuberculosis in a finding that could help lead to a new TB vaccine, scientists said on Saturday. Tuberculosis is the world's seventh-leading cause of death, killing 1.8 million people worldwide in 2008, about half a million of whom ...

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EMU Awaiting TB Test Results

NBC 4 Detroit (WDIV) | 2010-02-09 08:36:52

Benenden sees the mutual model as way ahead

Yorkshire Post, UK | 2010-02-09 06:54:08

TB victim remanded in custody

Sunderland Echo, UK | 2010-02-09 03:26:31

Nurses’ study leave closes Bay clinic

The Herald, South Africa | 2010-02-08 23:51:18

Examination of woman's body due

BBC News | 2010-02-08 11:57:33

EMU student treated for tuberculosis

Detroit Free Press | 2010-02-08 11:41:08

Yet another Haitian worry

Marginal Revolution | 2010-02-06 16:07:07

News briefs from the February issue of Chest

EurekAlert! | 2010-02-04 00:32:52

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