Colo. hospital strict with TB patient
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The hospital caring for the Georgia attorney with a rare strain of tuberculosis ranks among the best in the nation for research and treatment of the disease; it was born in an age in which thousands suffering from "consumption" trekked to Colorado's high, dry air in hopes of a cure.
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New tests show that the multiple-drug-resistant TB is still dangerous, but susceptible to more drug treatments.
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A man with a rare and exceptionally dangerous form of tuberculosis has been placed in quarantine by the U.S. government after possibly exposing passengers and crew on two trans-Atlantic flights earlier this month, health officials said Tuesday.
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Andrew Speaker, the tuberculosis patient who sparked an international public health scare in May, said he is preparing to undergo surgery Tuesday to remove the diseased portion of his right lung.
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NEW YORK  - If tuberculosis is not detected  in patients being treated for cancer, it can easily spread to  other hospitalized cancer patients, a new report shows.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Health officials were searching Monday for dozens of airline passengers who may have come in contact with a 30-year-old woman infected with a hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis on a flight from India.
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A Montgomery County hospital where a 29-year-old patient suffered extreme malnutrition before his death could face steep state fines within weeks and even the loss of federal Medicare funding this fall because of serious failings in care.
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An airline passenger infected with a particularly lethal form of tuberculosis been put under quarantine. How much of a threat is the disease to others on the plane and in the U.S?
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The U.S. man with a dangerous form of tuberculosis who triggered an international health scare last month will have surgery to treat his infection, hospital officials said on Thursday.
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U.S. federal health officials have placed under quarantine a man who may have exposed fellow passengers to a particularly nasty strain of tuberculosis on two transatlantic flights, authorities said on Tuesday.
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A man with a rare and exceptionally dangerous form of tuberculosis has been placed in quarantine by the U.S. government after possibly exposing passengers and crew on two trans-Atlantic flights this month, health officials said Tuesday.
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Legal barriers prevented Georgia health officials from keeping an Atlanta man diagnosed with tuberculosis from leaving the United States.
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The case of a jet-setting tuberculosis patient might soon shift from the hospital wards to the courts. The patient, Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta personal injury attorney, could sue the federal government for being quarantined on the basis of federal regulations that some scholars see as unconstitutional.
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New tests show the globe-trotting American lawyer who caused an international health scare by traveling with a dangerous form of tuberculosis has a less severe form of the disease, doctors said Tuesday.
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A man with tuberculosis who fled from medical isolation at a hospital was found Tuesday off Interstate 30 near Little Rock, authorities said.
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A US TB patient who sparked an health scare in May says doctors had told him he was not contagious.
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The patient who took two trans-Atlantic flights while infected with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis arrived in Denver on his way to the National Jewish Medical and Research Center. via WMTW