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Archived News and Updates

  • TB's return comes with high costs: You might think tuberculosis hasn't been a problem since your grandparents' era, but the illness is making a worldwide comeback. Its costs of treatment and lost productivity are estimated at almost $3 billion a year. Listen to Frank Browning reports on NPR's Market Place.
  • Aggressive TB treatment a success: Tuberculosis which is resistant to many current treatments can be overcome with aggressive therapy, research suggests.
  • The New England Journal of Medicine: More than 60 percent of patients diagnosed with extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB), a type of tuberculosis that is very difficult to treat were cured with aggressive drug treatment by a team of Peruvian doctors.
  • Association calls on state to fund tb programs In recognition of World TB Day on March 24, the American Lung Association of California released troubling statewide tuberculosis (TB) statistics and called on the state to avert a resurgence of TB by funding prevention and control efforts.
  • Deadly TB strain sweeps Kyrgyz prisons
  • CNN:US citizen who prompted an international health crisis by traveling after being diagnosed with multi-drug resistant TB was released from the hospital July 26, 2007.
  • PLos Pathogens: Mycobacterium tuberculosis nuoG Is a Virulence Gene That Inhibits Apoptosis of Infected Host Cells