A new study by University of Bath scientists has highlighted two new potential families of drug molecules that could open the ...

Image=KCDC Amid the increased possibility of using artificial intelligence (AI) for care due to aging, a senior medication ...

Despite longstanding reliance on sputum smear microscopy, culture methods, and chest X-rays, conventional TB diagnostics remain plagued by delays, inaccuracies, and resource limitations. These methods ...

The FDA approved a new tuberculosis drug that improves treatment for the hardest-to-treat cases. Drug-resistant TB is a growing problem in many poor countries.

Those diagnosed with drug-resistant TB receive medication to take for six months — a far shorter time than previously required. For decades, the standard treatment for drug-resistant TB was to ...

Eradicating tuberculosis globally can’t happen without better TB drugs, and access to bedaquiline will help tremendously. But it’s not just about having medications that target the disease.

Drug-resistant TB is placing huge burdens on the hospitals in Balti, the second-largest city in Moldova, says Veaceslav Batir, the head of the health department there. Patients stay for extremely ...

A TB patient sleeps in his room inside Ward 16, where the drug-resistant tuberculosis patients are housed and treated, on August 5, 2019 at the Sizwe Tropical Diseases Hospital in Johannesburg ...

Complications. If the drugs you try first don’t work against your TB, you may have a drug-resistant form of the disease. Your doctor may recommend that you switch to so-called second-line drugs.

Here's what tuberculosis is, ... "If the infection is caught early and if a patient adheres to their medication," Roess says, "tuberculosis can be easily cured." Featured Weekly Ad.

For TB treatment to work, patients must take their drugs every day, without interruption, for months. Barack Odima, a 38-year-old mechanic in Nairobi, has the most deadly form of the disease, one ...

A woman with tuberculosis in Tacoma, Washington, has refused to isolate or take medication, so the health department has gotten multiple court orders to compel her.