Drive to curb drug-resistant TB
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The World Health Organization has unveiled a two-year plan to combat the spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis.
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The pharmaceutical enlists help to thwart a troublesome illness.
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Europe's first centre to fight multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis is opened in the Latvian capital Riga.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new package of grants to fight tuberculosis, bringing to $740 million the amount it has spent or committed so far on the disease.
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Five nations launched an   initiative on Tuesday to raise at least $300 million next year   to buy generic drugs at steep volume discounts to fight AIDS,   tuberculosis and malaria in developing countries.
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NEW YORK  - Information gathered by the World Health Organization and other groups between 2000 and 2002 indicates the presence of strains of tuberculosis (TB) that are resistant to one or more standard drugs in virtually all of the countries surveyed, with particularly high levels in areas of the former Soviet Union and China.
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Simple, common-sense measures such as opening hospital windows and using face masks would greatly reduce the number of new cases of extensively drug-resistant or XDR tuberculosis, doctors reported on Thursday.
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The highly dangerous form of tuberculosis that has infected a man now in quarantine resists almost all drugs used to treat TB, leaving only less effective options.
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A test can tell if TB patients have stopped taking their medicine, which increases the risk of drug resistant strains.
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The death toll from a highly drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis has risen to 74 in South Africa and a health official on Wednesday predicted more casualties from the deadly disease.
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An antibiotic used to treat leprosy and tuberculosis is showing promise as a therapy for Parkinson's disease.
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Scientists have devised a blood test for tuberculosis which they hope will help doctors in the developing world.
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WASHINGTON - An antibiotic that shuts down the power source of the tuberculosis bacteria may become the first new drug enlisted in 40 years to fight the disease.
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Scientists believe they may have found a way to stop bacteria becoming resistant to drug treatments.
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NEW YORK  - The U.S. is unlikely to meet its goal for eliminating tuberculosis (TB) by 2010, primarily because of high rates of latent (dormant) TB infection in certain population subgroups, according to a nationwide survey.
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Measures aimed at stopping the threat of tuberculosis (TB) will be pioneered at a new research centre in Latvia.
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As many as half a million lives could be saved every year in Africa if governments combine their approach to tackle a rampant AIDS epidemic with measures to treat tuberculosis, health experts said on Tuesday.