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New test quickly ID's active TB in smear-negative patients
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Active tuberculosis can be rapidly identified in patients with negative sputum tests by a new method, according to European researchers. Active tuberculosis (TB) is the seventh-leading cause of death worldwide, and while ...
Risk of tuberculosis from arthritis medication examined
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Treatment with anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) agents is recognized as a risk factor for tuberculosis (TB) in patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn's ...
Tijuana injection drug users on collision course for HIV and TB
Apr 15, 2009 |
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A study by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, in collaboration with Mexican researchers and health officials, shows that as many as 67 percent of injection drug users in Tijuana test ...
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Report: U.S. falling short on TB battle
Feb 03, 2008 |
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A new report said the United States is falling short of its benchmark goal of eliminating tuberculosis as a public health problem by 2010.
Preventing tuberculosis reactivation
Oct 18, 2007 |
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Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death due to infectious disease in the world today. It is estimated that 2 billion people are currently infected, and although most people have latent infection, reactivation can ...
Change in guidelines could help eliminate TB in US
Jan 02, 2007 |
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To eliminate tuberculosis (TB) in the United States, current guidelines should be changed to reclassify all foreign-born residents from high-incidence countries as "high-risk," regardless of the amount of time they have lived ...
Doctors call for change in how non-active TB in immigrant children treated
Mar 02, 2009 |
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New guidelines proposed in the March 2009 issue of the journal Pediatrics by researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and Riley Hospital for Children may have a major impact on how U.S. pediatricians and fa ...
Study suggests TB screening needs to be targeted for maximum public health benefit
May 19, 2009 |
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New estimates of the likelihood that a latent case of tuberculosis (TB) will become active have resulted in a roughly 50 percent increase over previous estimates of the number of people needed to be screened (NNS) to prevent ...
New treatment option for latent tuberculosis
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Patients who are infected with the latent form of tuberculosis (TB) show no symptoms and are not contagious, yet they pose the biggest challenge when it comes to controlling the disease. The latest study by Dr. Dick Menzies ...
Smoking increases risk of TB infection, study finds
Feb 27, 2007 |
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People who smoke have a greater risk of becoming infected with tuberculosis (TB) and of having that infection turn into active TB disease, according to an analysis by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
New TB test reveals patients at risk, says study
Oct 20, 2008 |
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A recently introduced blood test can reveal which patients may develop active tuberculosis (TB) much more precisely than the 100-year old TB skin test, according to a new study published today in the journal Annals of In ...
Association of tuberculosis with smoking and indoor air pollution
Jan 16, 2007 |
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Smokers have an increased risk of tuberculosis (TB) infection, TB disease, and of dying from TB compared to people who do not smoke.
Scientists take step toward simple and portable tuberculosis tests for developing world
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Two billion people worldwide carry the pathogen that causes tuberculosis (TB), and most of them do not even know they are infected. This is because some 90 percent of people with TB have "latent" infections. They have no ...
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