UC Denver student isolated after being diagnosed with TB
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A student at the University of Colorado Denver's Auraria campus has been diagnosed with an active case of tuberculosis.
The student has been isolated and is receiving treatment, spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery said.
"Our focus right now is educating the handful of students and staff who may have been exposed," Montgomery said.
India: As the middle class rises, so does tuberculosis
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Although tuberculosis is still associated with poverty, malnutrition and crowded living conditions in India, the disease is endemic among rich and poor. Among the affluent, it has simply been lying in wait, only to emerge when the immune systems of the new rich are compromised by the same stress factors that are causing an increases in "lifestyle related" problems like type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
Over 30 percent of TB cases going undetected in Myanmar
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According to the most recent national tuberculosis (TB) prevalence survey in Myanmar conducted from 2009-2010 and still undergoing analysis, preliminary data show a large proportion of TB cases are going undetected.
Over 1,000 People Test Positive for TB in Jinja, Uganda
allafrica.com
A total of 1,287 people in Jinja District have been diagnosed with tuberculosis. The district tuberculosis/leprosy control supervisor, Mr Bernard Mugabi, last Thursday told the media that the number of patients puts the case detection rate for TB in Jinja at 82 per cent which is higher than the 70 per cent national figure.
Tuberculosis cases at an all-time low in the U.S., the CDC says
The number of tuberculosis cases in the United States reached an all-time low last year, with only 11,181 cases reported to public health authorities, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
45 % Ghanaians ignorant of TB
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As Ghana joins the world to celebrate World Tuberculosis Day, Program Coordinator for the National Tuberculosis Control Programme, Frank Bonsu has disclosed that Ghanaians are still ignorant about the existence of the disease.
World TB Day Media Call
Today, March 24th, 2011, ACTION held a media call to discuss the important issues and developments happening around World TB Day. Click here to listen to the full audio!
Cabinet approves scaling up services of management of drug resistant tuberculosis
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Thursday approved the proposal of Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry for scaling up services for diagnosis, care and management of drug resistant tuberculosis under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) with assistance from Global Fund
Better health comes in shipping containers
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New technologies are helping Zambia make the most of its scarce health workers and laboratories in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), and showing that there may be more to a shipping container than meets the eye.
AstraZeneca joins fight against tuberculosis
AstraZeneca has joined a consortium to fight tuberculosis around the world with French rival Sanofi-aventis and the universities of Cambridge and Lausanne.
The More Medicines for Tuberculosis (MM4TB) consortium intends to develop new drugs for successful and shorter treatment for TB. The universities of Pavia in Italy, and Uppsala in Sweden, along with 19 other research groups from a total of 13 countries, are also involved. The consortium will be funded by a €16m (£13.5m) EU grant and led by TB expert Professor Stewart Cole, of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
