U.S. TB Cases Reach Highest Level in a Decade

• Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
• March 29, 2024
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Tuberculosis cases are on the rise in the United States, with the number of reported infections in 2023 the highest seen in a decade.

Forty states logged an increase in tuberculosis (TB) cases, and rates were up among all age groups, the study from the U.S. Centers ...

U.S. Safety Protocols Stopped TB in Imported Lab Monkeys From Spreading to Humans

• Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
• February 22, 2024
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Rigorous safety protocols prevented an outbreak of tuberculosis last year in lab monkeys imported to the United States from spreading to humans, a new report shows.

Overall, 26 cynomolgus macaque monkeys flown in from Southeast Asia to the United States for research purp...

AI May Equal Trained Staff in Spotting TB on Chest X-Rays

• Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
• April 18, 2023
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Artificial intelligence (AI) may help clinicians diagnose tuberculosis in parts of the world where radiologists are scarce, a new study suggests.

AI software successfully identified tuberculosis (TB) from cellphone photos of chest X-ray images, researchers reported at a...

U.S. Tuberculosis Cases Rose in 2022: CDC

• Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
• March 23, 2023
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Tuberculosis cases climbed again in 2022, U.S. health officials announced Thursday.

Still, the 5% increase, which amounted to 8,300 cases, didn't reach higher pre-pandemic numbers, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“The message is...

Troubling Signs TB Is Gaining Resistance Against Combo Antibiotics

• Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
• January 30, 2023
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New drugs may be needed to fight the deadliest form of tuberculosis, because it may no longer respond to current treatments.

An animal study by Johns Hopkins Univer...

TB Cases Declined in U.S. During Pandemic

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• Robert Preidt
• March 25, 2022
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Reported cases of tuberculosis (TB) dropped significantly across the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, but delayed or missed diagnoses may have contributed to the decline.

"Delayed or missed tuberculosis disease diagnoses are threatening the health of people wi...

Could a TB Vaccine Protect the Elderly From Severe COVID?

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• August 5, 2021
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Scientists suspect that a century-old tuberculosis vaccine might be able to protect older adultsagainst the worst ravages of COVID-19.

The Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine was first used in 1921, and is on the World Health Organization's list of essential medicine...

Could the TB Vaccine Help Prevent COVID-19?

• Robert Preidt
• November 25, 2020
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A widely used tuberculosis vaccine may help protect people against the new coronavirus or reduce the severity of COVID-19, a new study suggests.

The Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) was developed in the early 1900s and is given to more than 100 million children worldwide ...

Evidence Mounts That TB Vaccine Might Help Protect Against COVID-19

• Robert Preidt
• July 13, 2020
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A tuberculosis vaccine may help reduce the risk of death from COVID-19, researchers suggest.

Developing countries have lower-than-expected COVID-19 death rates, and a TB vaccine given in countries with high rates of tuberculosis might play a significant role in reduc...

New Weapon in Fight Against Multidrug-Resistant TB

• Amy Norton
• March 4, 2020
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While the world's focus is trained on the new coronavirus, a groundbreaking clinical trial finds researchers battling a tough-to-treat form of an "old" infectious disease, tuberculosis.

TB is a bacterial infection that usually attacks the lungs. The disease does not ...

Imaging Scans May Lead to Shorter TB Treatment

• Robert Preidt
• February 27, 2020
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A new monitoring approach could help improve treatment of patients with tuberculosis (TB), researchers say.

TB is an infectious disease that primarily affects the lungs. Treatment involves multiple pills or injection drugs daily for at least six months. Successful tr...

TB Vaccine More Powerful When Given Intravenously

• Steven Reinberg
• January 2, 2020
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The tuberculosis (TB) vaccine is far from infallible, but new animal research suggests the problem is not the vaccine but how it is delivered.

When given to monkeys intravenously rather than as an injection, the vaccine was much more effective, researchers from the U...

Childhood TB Shot May Offer Long-Term Protection from Lung Cancer

• Serena Gordon
• October 1, 2019
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A tuberculosis vaccine commonly used in other parts of the world might reduce a person's risk of developing lung cancer if given early in childhood, a six-decade-long study reports.

The Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine is the only vaccine approved for preventin...

TB Cases Drop Among the Young, But Racial Disparities Persist

• Robert Preidt
• August 22, 2019
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There's good and bad news in a new report on tuberculosis rates among American children and teens: Overall, the number of cases have fallen by nearly half, but they still remain much higher among minorities than whites.

Tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial lung disease, is...

FDA Approves Drug for Most Deadly Form of TB

• Robert Preidt
• August 15, 2019
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A new drug has been approved as part of a powerful, three-pronged treatment regimen for the most deadly strain of tuberculosis, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday.

Pretomanid tablets were approved to be used with bedaquiline and linezolid in a...