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Operations will be halted in the coming months at the Chao Center for Industrial Pharmacy and Contract Manufacturing at the Purdue Research ...

A few weeks ago, the Boston Globe published an article on the U.S. government’s decision to flatline AIDS funding in countries that are cur...

Hundreds of people at major U.S. airports each year are severely ill with symptoms of potentially contagious diseases, yet few are reported ...

Federal MPs on the House of Commons health committee got an earful Tuesday morning from an army of First Nations chiefs, doctors and public ...

TAMPA - Five months after one confirmed case of tuberculosis turned up at Plant City High School, health officials have discovered 11 new ca...

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic has led to an increase in the incidence of tuberculosis globally, particularly in sub-Sahara...

Fluoroquinolone antibiotics are relatively new drugs in anti-tuberculosis (TB) treatment, with the potential to become the first new class o...

Smear examination for the detection of Acid fast bacilli continues to be the gold standard in Diagnosis of Tuberculosis. In spite of several...

In the United States, TB is much less common than it used to be. Of the some 13,000 new cases of active disease each year in the United Stat...

The main focus of the work of Farmabrasilis has been the development of the immunomodulator P-MAPA. Although this compound was originally in...

In January 1964, fifteen-year-old Kathleen Felters from Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side was admitted to the Municipal Tuber...

The end of vaccinations for tuberculosis did not bring about an increase in cases of actual tuberculosis among children. The disease still e...

Once a disease thought to have been eradicated across most of the developed world, today the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) is again on the ...

Last month, 50 students and teachers at Lilburn Middle School in Gwinnett County, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta , tested positive for tuberculosi...

On Queen guitarist Brian May's blog, the hottest topic isn't his searing solo on "We Will Rock You" or the operatic ambiti...

THE treatment of about 650 tuberculosis patients over the next five years will be carried out by the National TB Program via a $20million gr...

Right in the heartland of the United States, in Louisville, Kentucky, lays the Waverly Hills Sanatorium. It originally opened in 1910 as two...

Active case finding is to find, diagnose, and treat and follow up tuberculosis patients in the local communities. To find out the efficacy o...

A MAN has died from tuberculosis while being held in Cardiff Prison, the Western Mail has learned. Tests will now be carried out on those in...