There were an estimated 490,000 new cases of drug-resistant TB in 2016. Tuberculosis, a lung disease most often transmitted by breathing infected particles in the air, is the ninth leading cause of ...

Health workers in developing countries know that isolating tuberculosis patients is an outdated and potentially harmful ...

Only four out of 10 patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in Europe achieved successful treatment outcomes, a rate markedly lower than that for other forms of drug-resistant TB ...

Nagpur: Short-duration, all-oral treatment regimens used in India for drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) are not only ...

AMES, Iowa – Edward Yu took note of the facts – nearly 2 million deaths each year, 9 million infected each year, developments of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant and now totally ...

The ICMR analysis found that the BPaL regimen is "both more effective and cost-saving" compared to the current standard of ...

An ICMR study shows that six-month all-oral treatment regimens for drug-resistant tuberculosis are more economical and effective, outperforming longer plans in India. This finding suggests a ...

A patient we'll call Juliet is a young woman you wouldn't have noticed if you had happened upon her in the market or on a bus in the African country where she lived. She looks healthy. But she isn’t.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Anyone who attended ...

An ICMR study has found that the six-month all-oral treatment regimens for multidrug-resistant and rifampicin-resistant ...