Tuberculosis News

THURSDAY, March 22 (HealthDay News) -- Tuberculosis rates fell to an all-time low in the United States in 2011, but the disease continues to disproportionately infect racial and ethnic minorities, those who are foreign-born and people infected wit...

FRIDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Outbreaks among young people in Texas of the old foe tuberculosis -- often mistakenly dismissed as a long-ago health menace now confined to the pages of a Charles Dickens novel -- show that the respiratory disea...

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Vitamin D plays a critical role in the body's ability to fight off infections like tuberculosis (TB) -- a potentially fatal lung disease, according to a new study. An international team of researchers found t...

THURSDAY, Sept. 15 (HealthDay News) -- As Europe struggles to combat increasing rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis, health officials say the disease is less of a threat in North America -- at least so far. But, they add, the ease of travel that'...

MONDAY, Jan. 10 (HealthDay News) -- People over age 65 are at increased risk for serious side effects while undergoing latent tuberculosis therapy, a new study finds. Latent tuberculosis occurs when TB bacteria lurk in the body without making the ...

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Hispanics account for 80 percent of the cases of tuberculosis/HIV co-infection in San Diego, which represents a significant change in the racial profile of the disease, a new study shows. "While the overall n...

TUESDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- A new vaccine prevents tuberculosis in people with HIV, a new study shows. Phase III trials of 2,000 HIV-infected people in Tanzania found that the mycobacterium vaccae (MV) vaccine reduced the rate of definite ...

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- The woman behind Pride and Prejudice and Emma may have died of tuberculosis rather than Addison's disease, as has long been believed, says one British scholar. Since Jane Austen's death in 1817 at the age of 4...

FRIDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) -- A new test can rapidly identify active tuberculosis in people who've had negative sputum tests, say European researchers. In about half of all people with active TB, the disease-causing bacterium can't be ident...

MONDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Smokers are twice as likely as nonsmokers to develop active tuberculosis (TB), a new study shows. Researchers analyzed data from nearly 17,000 people who took part in Taiwan's 2001 National Health Interview Surv...

THURSDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) -- An arthritis therapy appears to increase the risk of tuberculosis in certain patients, French researchers have found. Their study examined the connection between TB and two anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) agen...

FRIDAY, July 3 (HealthDay News) -- Extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis might someday meet its match in two drugs now used to treat Parkinson's disease, suggests a new study. Researchers, led by a team from the University of California, San Diego, ...

WEDNESDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) -- In the minds of most Americans, tuberculosis is a disease of the past. However, statistics show it's still a major global health problem.

WEDNESDAY, April 8 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental tuberculosis vaccine called MVA85A proved safe in a small phase I clinical trial. The study included 12 people with latent tuberculosis infection, which, when re-activated, can cause full-blow...

THURSDAY, April 2 (HealthDay News) -- Using a new antibiotic called moxifloxacin in combination with other drugs could cut several months off the six months it currently takes to cure patients with drug-treatable tuberculosis, according to a phase...

THURSDAY, March 19 (HealthDay News) -- Tuberculosis cases reached an all-time low rate in the United States last year, according to a new federal government report. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 12,898 new cases of T...

TUESDAY, March 17 (HealthDay News) -- Ultraviolet lights and negative air ionizers may help decrease the spread of tuberculosis in hospitals, researchers suggest. The scientists conducted tests on guinea pigs exposed to air from patient rooms in a...

THURSDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Combination treatment with two FDA-approved drugs shows promise in treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), a U.S. study shows. In laboratory tests, researchers at the Albert Einstein College...

TUESDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDay News) -- The almost 20 percent of tuberculosis patients in the United States who say they abuse alcohol or illicit drugs are more contagious and difficult to treat than other TB patients, a new study shows. Researchers ...