An automated SMS program embedded into TB care helped 40% of patients quit smoking; experts explore if a program might help cessation among smokers with other comorbidities.

TACOMA –On Monday, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department announced it was monitoring a patient with active tuberculosis who had declined treatment. Court records reveal the woman has not followed ...

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Reports of TB date back to around 410-400 B.C.E., when the physician Hippocrates termed the disease phthisis, an archaic word that means a progressive “wasting away,” due to the way people with the ...

A Washington state woman who was arrested after she refused for more than a year to consistently isolate or take medication for tuberculosis has finally been cured of the disease. The Tacoma-Pierce ...

Patient choice in taking treatment is framed by the physiological and psychological impacts of the disease and also by the social and cultural structures in which the person is immersed. [68] Patient ...

Launched in 2018, NPY scheme provides ₹1,000 per month to notified TB patients to support a nutrient-rich diet, which plays a ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Of 111,155 tuberculosis diagnoses, researchers found ...

TB remains the leading cause of death among people living with HIV. Uganda is a high TB-burden country, and HIV accelerates ...

In this March 24, 2018 file photo, a relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient at a TB hospital on World Tuberculosis Day in Hyderabad, India. The number of people killed by ...

Now a museum, the Saranac Laboratory was established in 1894 and was the first in the United States dedicated to studying ...

Maria Bambina Sr. Agustina Tudu, 69, is a Santal Indigenous from Dinajpur, a northern district of Bangladesh. Tudu took her ...