Some patients with highly drug-resistant tuberculosis could benefit from a shorter treatment with fewer drugs, while others ...

More information: Véronique A. Dartois et al, Strategies for shortening tuberculosis therapy, Nature Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41591-025-03742-3 Provided by Hackensack Meridian Health ...

To improve our ability to assess patients for potential TB infections, we developed a TB risk scoring tool by reviewing past patient data. This tool was then integrated into the electronic health ...

Tuberculosis patients danced in the corridors of New York City's Sea View Hospital ten years ago to celebrate their speeding recovery on new drugs, ... Medicine: TB: Ten Years After. 3 minute read.

Drug-resistant TB – wherein the bacteria do not respond to common, first-line antibiotics – is more difficult to treat. Currently, Pune city has around 445 DR-TB patients who need second-line ...

Globally, it is estimated that each day, over 4000 people lose their lives and close to 30,000 fall ill with TB disease. “Currently, Ghana has 169 GeneXpert, 79 digital x-rays in 260 districts ...

The state has 32,955 TB patients in all, of whom 31,050 are adults and 1,905 are in the age group of 0 to 14. Out of these, only 28,902 have signed up for adoption programme.

BHAWANIPATNA: Tuberculosis patients of Kalahandi district are in dire straits owing to the unavailability of vital medicines for the disease since the last thre ...

MDR-TB is caused by resistance to more than two anti-TB drugs. Patients diagnosed with MDR-TB have to take medicines for up to 18 months and a gap in the course can lead to treatment failure or ...