Copyright 2012 Medical News TodayLatest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/tuberculosis/admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin)editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors)en-us Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241408.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241408.phpThe management of tuberculosis cases in the European Union (EU) is not meeting international standards, according to new research. The research, published online ahead of print in the European Respiratory Journal, has identified key areas of priority for public action to combat the growing number of drug-resistant tuberculosis cases...Tuberculosis Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241334.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241334.phpA gene that influences the inflammatory response to infection may also predict the effectiveness of drug treatment for a deadly form of tuberculosis...Tuberculosis Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241130.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241130.php'Tuberculosis patients may receive treatments in the future according to what version they have of a single 'Goldilocks' gene, says an international research team from Oxford University, King's College London, Vietnam and the USA...Tuberculosis Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241155.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241155.php The World Health Organization (WHO) has ongoing programs to improve and monitor tuberculosis (TB). The WHO's 2011 report on global TB control provides the most comprehensive information ever collected on the problems and issues of disease, as well as deaths caused by TB and multidrug-resistant TB (i.e. disease marked by in vitro resistance to at least isoniazid and rifampicin)...Tuberculosis Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240458.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240458.phpTuberculosis (TB) has been suspected to increase a person's risk of lung cancer because the pulmonary inflammation and fibrosis can induce genetic damage. However, direct evidence of specific genetic changes and the disease have not been extensively reported...Lung Cancer Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240357.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240357.phpExperts have long feared the eventual arrival of a completely drug-resistant TB (tuberculosis) - a hospital in India has reported the nation's first cases of a type of tuberculosis for which there are no effective drugs, making the TB virtually untreatable. Other untreatable TBs have emerged over the last nine years; there have been reported cases in Iran and Italy...Tuberculosis Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239772.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239772.phpSouthwestern Medical Center study using a sophisticated "glass mouse" research model has found that multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is more likely caused in patients by speedy drug metabolism rather than inconsistent doses, as is widely believed...Tuberculosis Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239755.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239755.phpA UT Southwestern Medical Center study using a sophisticated "glass mouse" research model has found that multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is more likely caused in patients by speedy drug metabolism rather than inconsistent doses, as is widely believed...Tuberculosis Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239486.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239486.phpIn the Christmas issue published on bmj.com today, Professor Sir Malcolm Green explains: "a review of a historical study from 1848 reveals that cod liver oil was an effective treatment for tuberculosis." 1,077 individuals with consumption (tuberculosis) were enrolled to participate in the study conducted by physicians at the Hospital for Consumption, Chelsea (now the Royal Brompton Hospital)...Tuberculosis Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239312.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239312.phpA new study led by Harvard School of Public (HSPH) researchers provides a novel explanation as to why some tuberculosis cells are inherently more difficult to treat with antibiotics. The discovery, which showed that the ways mycobacteria cells divide and grow determine their susceptibility to treatment with drugs, could lead to new avenues of drug development that better target tuberculosis cells...Tuberculosis Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239393.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239393.phpWorking with guinea pigs, tuberculosis experts at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere have closely mimicked how active but untreated cases of the underlying lung infection lead to permanent eye damage and blindness in people. Lead study investigator and Johns Hopkins infectious disease specialist Petros Karakousis, M.D...Tuberculosis Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239292.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239292.phpA research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore Lipidomics Incubator (SLING) is collaborating with the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) to identify novel target molecules to be employed as biomarkers for the detection of active tuberculosis (TB)...Tuberculosis Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239228.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239228.phpDeveloped countries and funding agencies are putting the brakes on growth in development assistance for health, raising the possibility that developing countries will have an even harder time meeting the Millennium Development Goal deadline looming in 2015, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington...Aid / Disasters Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239051.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239051.php According to a new UK-wide cohort study published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the incidence of TB (tuberculosis) diagnosis is substantially higher in new mothers after childbirth, indicating that this group of women represents a potentially new target group selected for screening...Tuberculosis Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239037.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239037.php A new study published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine shows that from the three TB diagnosis tests commercially available in the U.S., the majority of positives prove to be false positives in populations with a low prevalence of tuberculosis (TB)...Tuberculosis Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239035.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239035.php An investigation led by Timothy Sterling, M.D., professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has resulted in a vital alteration in CDC recommendations in the plan of prevention for tuberculosis (TB). The study was published December 8 in New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)...Tuberculosis Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238983.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238983.phpIn populations with a low prevalence of tuberculosis (TB), the majority of positives with the three tests commercially available in the U.S for the diagnosis of TB are false positives, according to a new study...Tuberculosis Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238984.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238984.phpThe incidence of tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis is significantly increased in mothers postpartum, suggesting a potential new population to target for screening, according to a new UK-wide cohort study...Tuberculosis Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238914.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238914.phpResearch, led by Timothy Sterling, M.D., professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has led to an important change in CDC recommendations in the regimen for prevention of the centuries-old scourge, tuberculosis (TB). Sterling's work is published in the Dec. 8 New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). On Friday, Dec...Tuberculosis Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238589.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238589.phpThe World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world's population is currently infected with the microbe that causes tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The only vaccine, BCG, is largely ineffective; ways to enhance its effectiveness are desperately needed. A team of researchers - led by Peter Andersen, at Statens Serum Institut, Denmark, and JoAnne L...Tuberculosis Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238526.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238526.php Statens Serum Institut and Aeras today announce the initiation of the first Phase I clinical trial of a new candidate TB vaccine designed to protect people latently infected with TB from developing active TB disease. The trial is being conducted by the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI) at its field site in Worcester, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Dr...Tuberculosis Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238431.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238431.phpIn research at SRI International, scientists evaluating new drug targets against tuberculosis (TB) recently validated the preclinical effectiveness of a target that could rapidly eliminate infections and potentially shorten treatment time. The new drug target is a protein called DNA gyrase B, found in bacteria that cause TB infections...Tuberculosis Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238416.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238416.phpIn this week's PLoS Medicine, Christian Lienhardt from the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland and colleagues announce that the Stop TB Partnership and the WHO Stop TB Department have launched the TB Research Movement...Tuberculosis Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238379.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238379.phpIn order to increase research and speed up progress to control tuberculosis (TB) around the world, novel tools and coordination are vital. Christian Lienhardt from the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland and colleagues announce in an article in this week's PLoS Medicine, that the Stop TB Partnership and the WHO Stop TB Department have initiated the TB Research Movement...Tuberculosis Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238282.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238282.phpFor the first time, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that the number of individuals who fall ill with tuberculosis (TB) each year is declining. According to new data, the number of humans dying from TB dropped to its lowest level in 10 years. However, due to underfunding this current progress is at risk, especially attempts to fight drug-resistant TB...Tuberculosis