An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious infectious disease that spreads through the air and affects millions worldwide but the good news is that TB is preventable with the right precautions. Understand how you ...

and in a way which is bound to have considerable effect on this great problem of the prevention of this terrible but preventable disease. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

TB can be found in every major city, in every country. Failing to control it threatens global health security. Now is not the moment to turn our backs on the disease.

Tuberculosis, also known as TB ... or as many as 18 months for especially resistant forms of the disease." To prevent this, "treatment should always first be guided by drug susceptibility testing ...

So we know how to prevent TB with a shorter course of antibiotics. We know how to do this. We know how to live in a world without where TB is not a huge public health concern. We just haven’t ...

To our knowledge, the two studies we included in this subgroup analysis are currently the only studies on the efficacy of INH in prevention of TB that have been conducted in HIV-infected children.

Understanding how TB spreads is crucial for both prevention efforts and identifying those at highest risk. This article examines the transmission mechanisms of tuberculosis and provides evidence ...

European tuberculosis surveillance report underscores the gravity of the situation in the WHO European region.1 Across 53 ...

In a Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study, the addition of navitoclax to the standard TB treatment significantly increased ...

This can help prevent TB in various forms. However, it may not be able to prevent TB in adults, but it can lower the risk of severe complications. TB bacteria tend to thrive more in closed and ...

Children are highly susceptible to tuberculosis; thus, there is need for safe and effective preventive interventions. Our objective was to evaluate the efficacy of isoniazid in prevention of ...