A group of about 300 Seaside High School students and employees will be tested for tuberculosis after an individual at the school was diagnosed with the infectious disease.
With the opening of this clinic, the Volusia County Health Department has discontinued pediatric and adult primary care services at its Deltona clinic.
Struggling plant-medicine industry stymied by biodiversity protection SOUTH Africa has untold potential to develop new blockbuster drugs from indigenous plants, such as hoodia, but is sabotaging the ...
Disease is both a biological and a social phenomenon. Patient, doctor, family, and social institutions-- including employers, government, and insurance companies--all find ways to frame the biological event in ...
Context Worldwide emergence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis has raised global public health concern, given the limited therapy options and high mortality.
The hardest-to-treat form of drug-resistant tuberculosis is a growing threat in many parts of the world, but remains quite rare in the United States, U.S. government health researchers said on Tuesday.
A new report suggests that the number of cases of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in the U.S. has declined in the past fifteen years, but new cases continue to be reported.
The new $3 million district office building of the Northwest Georgia Public Health District will be dedicated Wednesday and named in honor of local tuberculosis researcher Raymond F. Corpe.
Last week's announcement by the Global Fund that Kenya will not get its tranche of Sh24 billion this year summed up the uneasy relationship the Government has had with the fund, which ideally finances the ...
Five months after a specialised facility for multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis patients was established at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, the lack of isolation wards is raising concerns.
Web Release Date: October 29, 2008 Impact of Distal Side Water and Residue 315 on Ligand Binding to Ferric Mycobacterium tuberculosis Catalase−Peroxidase † Department of Chemistry, Brooklyn ...
Many countries around the world, such as the UK and the Philippines, routinely offer the BCG vaccine to its citizens as a safeguard against the potentially deadly disease, tuberculosis.
Researchers at Temple University School of Pharmacy hope a person's DNA will help them "custom fit" prescriptions and cut down on adverse drug reactions.
Jay K. Varma, Luis Ortega, Yecai Liu, Thomas O'Rourke, Maria Cano, Theresa Harrington, Sean Toney, Warren Jones, Samart Karuchit, Lois Diem, Dhanida Rienthong, Jordan W. Tappero, Kashef Ijaz, and Susan A. ...
Kyaita tb Abstract BACKGROUND: Despite the increasing prevalence of drug-resistant tuberculosis, most low- and middle-income countries use standardized regimens, without assessment of drug susceptibility.
Health officials in Juarez have reported an increase in tuberculosis cases, but El Paso Health Department officials said they have not seen an unusual spike in cases here.
