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An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) ...
In a Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study, the addition of navitoclax to the standard TB treatment significantly increased ...
March 24, 2025, was set aside by the World Health Organisation as World Tuberculosis Day to commemorate the day in 1882 when one of the true giants of early medicine, Dr Robert Koch, announced his ...
Tuberculosis (TB) cases rose 13 per cent in England last year, with increases among both immigrants and people born in the UK ...
Here's what tuberculosis is, how it's transmitted and how you can expect to have it treated if it affects you or someone you ...
Following the success of recent clinical trials, several major infectious disease agencies updated treatment guidance for ...
The World Health Organization aims to reduce TB cases by 80% by 2030. The United Kingdom reported a 13% rise in TB cases in ...
After an adult was diagnosed with tuberculosis after visiting two locations in Manchester in January, officials are ...
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Towards better TB control
More than half the TB patients in India seek private medical care. The current system of treatment of TB is confined to either public hospitals where treatment is given free but in an ambience which ...
The government also restated that TB screening and treatment are free in government-owned health facilities. The Deputy Director of the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme ...
ABOUT 50 people were recognised as community champions in the fight against tuberculosis (TB) in Madang in commemorating World TB Day and World Health Day. In commemoration of the World TB Day last ...
About half of all people with untreated active TB die from the disease, whereas treatment reduces the death rate to 12 percent. One of the more colorful phrases describing TB is “the king’s ...