"Directly observed treatment, close monitoring for safety ... that people aged 12 years or older with drug-susceptible pulmonary TB should consider a 4-month regimen of isoniazid, rifapentine ...

HealthDay News — In a clinical practice guideline issued by the American Thoracic Society and published in the January issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, updated ...

The endTB trial is one of four recent randomized controlled trials testing new, shorter, and less toxic treatment regimens ...

For decades, poor treatment options and low-quality ... of age or older with fluoroquinolone-susceptible, pulmonary rifampin-resistant tuberculosis that was confirmed by WHO-endorsed rapid tests ...

Vitamin D supplementation during TB treatment improves patient symptoms, but does not accelerate the clearance of TB bacteria.

Kansas is currently experiencing a rare outbreak of tuberculosis (TB), the world’s deadliest infectious disease. TB is spread ...

UCSF model shortens tuberculosis treatment by over three months through optimal combinations UCSF creates a groundbreaking approach to tuberculosis management by optimizing antibiotic therapies.

This study presents TBorNotTB, a CDSS designed to improve TB evaluation and streamline isolation decisions, reducing labor ...

State and local public health officials in Kansas are responding to a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in the Kansas City area, ...

A new study has demonstrated that a combination of conditional cash transfers and TB counseling significantly improves treatment success rates and reduces loss to follow-up among TB patients in South ...

Nutritional support for TB patients and contacts reduces new cases and deaths, proving cost-effective, according to a recent ...

Risk factors associated with extrapulmonary TB among US veterans include non-Hispanic Black race, diabetes, HIV infection, and severe kidney disease.