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Health Alert: TB can occur not only in the lungs but also in the heart, kidneys, and bones; know how to identify them...

Tuberculosis (TB) has been a serious health challenge globally. Its cases in India are also increasing the pressure on the health sector. TB is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium ...
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Can you have tuberculosis without knowing it?

Tuberculosis (TB) is often associated with persistent coughing, fever, night sweats and unexplained weight loss. However, not everyone infected with the bacteria experiences these symptoms. In some ...
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Study Suggests Experimental Cancer Drug Could Streamline Standard Tuberculosis Treatment and Prevent Post-TB Lung Disease

An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) treatments by helping infected cells die a gentler death, Johns Hopkins ...
Medical Xpress

Tuberculosis infected 8 million people last year, the most WHO has ever tracked

More than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, the highest number recorded since the U.N. health agency began keeping track. About 1 ...
clinicaladvisor.com

Lung Function Associated With 6-Minute Walk Test in Patients With TB and HIV

In patients with TB/HIV, higher pre-ART levels of TIMP-1 and MCSF and lower levels of collagen 1a were linked to greater odds of improvement in 6MWD. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) and tuberculosis (TB) ...
NDTV

How did I get infected with TB in spite of a healthy lifestyle?

TB occurs when individuals inhale the bacteria aerosolised by infected patients. The infective droplet nucleus is very small, measuring 5 micrometres or less, and may contain approximately 1-10 ...
Medscape

New ‘Breathing’ Lung-On-Chip Surprises Against Tuberculosis

A single Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium is small enough to ride an exhaled droplet all the way down into the deepest pocket of the lung, where a single layer of alveolar cells is all that ...
Medical Xpress

Standard TB and HIV treatments leave lung immune system impaired, study shows

The immune system remains seriously out-of-whack—in an inflammatory state of overactivation and impaired functionality—following the international gold standard for treating people with latent ...
Reuters

TB study points to drugs to halt lung destruction

LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) - Scientists have identified a key enzyme responsible for destroying lung tissue in tuberculosis (TB) and say the finding could lead swiftly to new treatments for the highly ...
EurekAlert!

Men more likely to be infected with TB than women

Men are more likely than women to catch tuberculosis (TB), finds a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers. Globally, men account for around two-thirds of people diagnosed with TB ...
WXYZ

Tuberculosis infected 8 million people last year, the most WHO has ever tracked

(WXYZ) — In today’s Health Alert, Tuberculosis cases have hit record highs, with over 8 million people infected worldwide last year. The World Health Organization ...