It's a "co-epidemic" of TB and diabetes that's beginning to affect many countries around the globe — poor, middle-income and even rich nations. The problem is that people with diabetes – a ...

aimed to identify a host blood RNA transcriptional signature that could form the basis of a simple diagnostic test. The researchers recruited 584 adult patients with suspected TB in South Africa ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The hardest-to-treat form of drug-resistant tuberculosis ... there were 83 cases of extensively drug-resistant TB, or XDR-TB, reported in the United States, U.S. Centers ...

A female patient with an extremely hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis is being treated ... she sought treatment from a U.S. doctor. While TB is not easily caught by casual contact, extensively ...

About 1%-2% of TB cases progress into TB meningitis, the worst form of TB, which leads to an infection in the brain that causes increased fluid and inflammation. "Most treatments for TB meningitis ...

Physicians in India have identified a form of incurable tuberculosis there ... dubbed totally drug-resistant tuberculosis (TDR-TB), are sparse, and official accounts may not provide an adequate ...

WSJ's Natacha Butler reports from Mumbai. Amol Dhuri, whose case was profiled in a Wall Street Journal Page One article on the rise of drug-resistant TB, had been caught in a bureaucratic snafu ...

A total of 55 cases of the extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) — the world’s most untreatable form of TB — have been detected within the municipal limits of Pune in a little ...

TB is an illness caused by bacteria that attack the lungs. It can be fatal, although a latent form shows no symptoms, doesn’t make people feel sick and is not contagious, according to federal ...

Very few drugs can treat such an extreme form of TB. “You create, basically, a bug which is virtually resistant to what we have,” said Ditiu. That risk is magnified since a lot of USAID’s ...