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7 hrs ago | Journal Watch

Effect of Isoniazid Shortage on TB Care

A shortage of the first-line tuberculosis drug isoniazid that began last November has left TB control programs scrambling to find the drug and "could contribute to TB transmission," according to MMWR .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

11 hrs ago | HON

Shortage of Key Drug Hampering U.S. Efforts to Control TB: Report

A shortage of a critical tuberculosis drug has hampered the efforts of health departments across the United States to contain the spread of the highly infectious lung disease, federal officials report.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Isoniazid (generic), Nydrazid, Laniazid, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

15 hrs ago | Centers for Disease Control and Preve...

Impact of a Shortage of First-Line Antituberculosis Medication on...

Tuberculosis disease is treated in most cases with a regimen of several drugs taken for 6-9 months.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Food and Drug Administration, Rifampin (generic), Rimactane, Rifadin, Isoniazid (generic), Nydrazid, Laniazid, Myambutol, Ethambutol (generic)

Wed May 15, 2013

New Vision

TB, a neglected disease in Uganda

By Dorothy Namutamba Tuberculosis remains a major global health problem. It causes ill-health among millions of people each year and ranks as the second leading cause of death from an infectious disease worldwide, after the human immunodeficiency virus .

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Related Topix: World News, Uganda, Africa, Medicine, Health, Infectious Diseases

Wed May 08, 2013

9NEWS

Dr. John: Medications, T.B, tinnitus

Dr. John Torres from Premier Urgent Care answers your questions every week. If you have a medical question for Dr.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Audiology

Fri May 03, 2013

Korea Herald

U.S. non-profit group to build tuberculosis center in Pyongyang

A U.S. non-profit group plans to build a tuberculosis treatment training center in Pyongyang by the end of this year, a report said Saturday.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Non-Profit, North Korea, World News, Asia, South Korea

Fri Apr 26, 2013

BioMed Central

Predictors of tuberculosis (TB) and antiretroviral (ARV) medication...

Despite the downward trend in the absolute number of tuberculosis cases since 2006 and the fall in the incidence rates since 2001, the burden of disease caused by TB remains a global health challenge.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, HIV/AIDS

Medical News

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB): an interview with Dr....

TB is tuberculosis , a mycobacterial infection, that has developed resistance to two important and powerful first-line anti-TB drugs, INH and rifampin.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Rifampin (generic), Rimactane, Rifadin, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Thu Apr 25, 2013

Korea Herald

Korea urged to play bigger role in fighting AIDS, TB, malaria

A global financing institution to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria requested Korea to play a bigger role in international efforts to defeat the diseases that threaten hundreds of millions of lives, especially in poor countries.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health, Medicine, Malaria, South Korea,

Wed Apr 24, 2013

Centers for Disease Control and Preve...

Tuberculosis Exposure among Evacuees at a Shelter after Earthquake, Japan, 2011

A contact investigation showed that the prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection among other evacuees at the shelter was 20%. Our report underscores the importance of tuberculosis prevention and control after natural disasters.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, World News, Japan, Tsunami, Natural Disasters, Infectious Diseases