Patientâs TB Is Less Severe Than First Thought
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Doctors said the man who caused an international health scare would still require as much as two years of care.
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Scientists believe they have found a tuberculosis (TB) drug that could succeed where others are failing. Although it is still at a very early stage of testing, the antibiotic appears to work much faster than other TB drugs and treats resistant strains.
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The results of the first early test of a new type of tuberculosis vaccine show that it elicits strong immune responses in adults with or without a previous bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination.
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A man infected with a drug-resistant form of TB knew he was not supposed to travel overseas but did so anyway, the CDC said today, potentially exposing others to the disease. The man who is quarantined in an Atlanta hospital, however, told a newspaper that health officials who informed him he was infected said they "preferred" he not travel.
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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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A test can tell if TB patients have stopped taking their medicine, which increases the risk of drug resistant strains.
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In one study, smaller doses were injected under the skin, but the vaccine wasn&#39;t as effective in older participants. BY MARILYNN MARCHIONE.
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[Health India]: New York, Dec 14 : A promising and possibly the most potent tuberculosis (TB) drug in 40 years is soon to be tested on patients of the disease that kills over two million people every year.
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Reports of the travels of a man with a dangerous form of tuberculosis seem to agree only in the missed chances to head off a health scandal.
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The reduction in patients for Amylin's Byetta diabetes drug could be small.
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Scientists at Johnson &amp; Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, LLC, have identified a novel anti-tuberculosis (TB) compound that works better and faster than the current standard of care in mouse models of TB infection.
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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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Elderly people who are obese appear to have a lower risk of falling ill with tuberculosis compared to those who are underweight or of average weight, according to an extensive geriatric study in Hong Kong.
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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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Doctors treating the Atlanta attorney with tuberculosis who touched off an international health scare have decided to reclassify his type of TB, officials said Tuesday.
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Old drugs, outdated tests, empty promises, new threats. Such is the bleak reality surrounding an international tuberculosis conference opening Thursday in a city scarred by a killer combination of TB and AIDS: an already nightmarish scenario worsened by the spread of virtually untreatable strains.
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New research gives hope for successfully treating tuberculosis in a few months rather than the six months or more currently needed to beat the contagious lung disease, doctors reported Tuesday.