News tagged with tb
Antibiotic combination defeats extensively drug-resistant TB
A combination of two FDA-approved drugs, already approved for fighting other bacterial infections, shows potential for treating extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), the most deadly form of the ...
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Feb 26, 2009 |
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Researchers discover new antituberculosis compounds
Attempts to eradicate tuberculosis (TB) are stymied by the fact that the disease-causing bacteria have a sophisticated mechanism for surviving dormant in infected cells. Now, a team of scientists led by researchers from Weill ...
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Sep 16, 2009 |
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Researchers discover two new ways to kill tuberculosis (w/ Video)
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found two novel ways of killing the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB), a disease responsible for an estimated two million deaths each year. ...
Mar 21, 2010 |
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Researchers discover TB disease mechanism and molecule to block it
Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have identified a mechanism used by the tuberculosis bacterium to evade the body's immune system and have identified a compound that blocks the bacterium's ability to survive ...
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Feb 15, 2010 |
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Scientists in hot pursuit of first new drug for global killer in 50 years
This World TB Day (March 24), researchers at Sydney's Centenary Institute announce they have made an exciting discovery that could lead to the first new drug for Tuberculosis (TB) in almost fifty years.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 24, 2010 |
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TB vaccine gets its groove back
A team of Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators has cracked one of clinical medicine's enduring mysteries - what happened to the tuberculosis vaccine. The once-effective vaccine no longer prevents the bacterial ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 19, 2009 |
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Researchers trace source of cocaine-driven TB outbreak
(PhysOrg.com) -- Simon Fraser University researchers are the first to combine the latest techniques of whole bacterial genome analysis with social networking surveys to track down the puzzling origins of a ...
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Feb 23, 2011 |
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Drug-resistant TB may 'spiral out of control,' U.N. says
The world is on the cusp of an explosion of drug-resistant tuberculosis cases that could deluge hospitals and leave physicians fighting a nearly untreatable malady with little help from modern drugs, global experts said Wednesday.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 02, 2009 |
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New treatment option for latent tuberculosis
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 ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Researchers develop new TB test that will dramatically cut diagnosis time
Researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and The University of Pittsburgh have developed an onsite method to quickly diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and expose the deadly drug-resistant strains that can mingle ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 19, 2009 |
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WHO: Money, drugs needed to rein in new TB strains
(AP) -- More money and better science are urgently needed to rein in new strains of tuberculosis that are tough or nearly impossible to treat, the WHO announced Monday in China, where the disease has long been a leading ...
Mar 23, 2009 |
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South Africa tries treating TB patients at home
(AP) -- South Africa is trying a new approach to controlling drug-resistant tuberculosis - treating people at home rather than in isolation hospitals surrounded by barbed wire and baton-wielding guards, health officials ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 23, 2009 |
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WHO paper: TB vaccine could kill babies with HIV
(AP) -- The World Health Organization says a study has shown that babies with HIV could die if given a standard tuberculosis vaccine.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Scientists take step toward simple and portable tuberculosis tests for developing world
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 ...
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Fat clue to TB awakening
The factors instrumental in triggering latent tuberculosis (TB) infection to progress into active disease have long remained elusive to researchers. New insight into the mystery is provided by Professor David ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 28, 2010 |
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