As tuberculosis cases rise in the US and worldwide, health officials puzzle over the resurgence of a disease once in decline
An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...
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MIT Scientists Unravel Tuberculosis' Airborne Survival Secrets: New Treatment Targets Identified
Study by MIT and others identifies genes essential for tuberculosis bacterium’s survival during airborne transmission.
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The Fight Against TB Was Frozen in Time, Until Now. See Its Future
Tuberculosis has stalked humanity for as nearly as long as we've been on earth. In this article, we take a look at how UCSF ...
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Understanding Tuberculosis: Symptoms and Transmission Risks Explained
A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...
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Rethinking the benefits of digital adherence technologies for tuberculosis treatment
Poor treatment adherence remains a major obstacle in national tuberculosis programmes globally. Digital adherence technologies offer novel opportunities to monitor and address poor adherence. Research ...
From TB to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension, but it’s the foundation of public health
Debates over tuberculosis reporting began in the late 19th century, when the bacterial infection was reframed not as a disease of the elite but of the urban poor. New York City was the first in the ...
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Smoking and Behçet Disease May Increase Tuberculosis Risk in Systemic Vasculitis
Latent tuberculosis infection-positivity is common among patients with systemic vasculitis and is associated with BD and smoking history.
Why increasing rates of tuberculosis in UK, US should concern everyone
Providing well-tolerated, preventive TB treatment can reduce the risk of developing active TB disease by 85 per cent in the ...