Topic: Tuberculosis
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-02-10 20:46:00
<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Smoking has long been known to boost tuberculosis risk, and a new study from Hong Kong suggests that being exposed to someone else's tobacco smoke also increases the likelihood of contracting the disease.</p><p>Dr. Chi C. Leung of the Wanchai Chest Clinic in ...
Reuters US Online Report World News | 2010-01-05 23:13:56
<div><p>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.</p><p>Drug-resistant TB, far more expensive to treat, emerges when patients fail to follow ...
AP News | 2009-12-27 12:15:40
<div id="subtitle">First case of extremely drug-resistant TB found in US, other killer diseases return</div><div><p>It started with a cough, an autumn hack that refused to go away.</p><p>Then came the fevers. They bathed and chilled the skinny frame of Oswaldo Juarez ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-12-07 20:16:56
<div><p>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.</p><p>For Anne Wajja, a doctor who heads TB vaccine studies in Uganda, this ...
