This post by Meghan Werft was originally published on Global Citizen on January 6, 2016. After “pharma-bro” Martin Shkreli hiked drugs prices to ridiculous amounts last year, it’s nice to hear about a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Currently, WHO recommends TB screening in children only under certain conditions. A systematic review identified ...

Shorter duration, fully oral treatment regimens for tuberculosis (TB) are now recommended for most adults and children. Updated joint guidelines from the American Thoracic Society, the CDC, European ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than half a million children who fall ill with tuberculosis each year are at risk of dying because of a lack of child-friendly treatments, experts said.

Taking a common antibiotic could more than half the risk of children becoming sick with multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), according to findings presented this week at a conference on lung ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Two phase 3 trials showed levofloxacin reduces the risk for multidrug-resistant TB after household exposure.

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The notification rate of tuberculosis (TB) went up from 2 to 2.5 per 100,000 population. But overall, numbers of notified paediatric cases remain relatively low across the region. As young children ...

New findings also indicate that children who live in settings with a high burden of TB have a consistently high annual risk of developing TB infection throughout childhood. An estimated 1.2 million ...

There’s a vaccine available for tuberculosis. However, it’s not commonly given in the United States. One reason why is that tuberculosis is no longer as common in the United States as it once was.

The sneaky growth of TB and the long times for culture-confirmation make containment a very important part of this too - I do hope and assume all tested/at risk have been advised to mask up and avoid ...

Douglas County health director Lindsay Huse declared a public health emergency over concern that the infectious disease could spread among those using the Westview YMCA, according to USA Today. She ...