Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Tuberculosis

The 13 Victorian diseases that are making a comeback - including gout, scurvy and rickets

Diseases which many may assume are in the past are making a comeback, which is why it is important to be able to spot potential warning signs.

Daily Record

World leaders pledge billions to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria on UN sidelines

The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria on Wednesday reached $14.25 billion pledged as world leaders seek to fight the killer diseases after progress was knocked off course by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Reuters

Global Fund seeks record $18bn to fight crippling diseases

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is on Wednesday hoping to reach its $18 billion target to fund another three years to slow the spread of the diseases.

Radio France Internationale

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Global Fund gets powerful help with $18 billion funding goal

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will get some high-powered help this week to reach its $18 billion goal to fund another three years to slow the spread of these diseases

The Independent UK

Sewa Pakhwara to mark PM Modi’s birthday

"Sewa Pakhwara" will include activities such as blood donation drives, adopting one Tuberculosis afflicted person to ensure proper treament and sanitation drives

The Hindu

IISc scientists develop gold-coated vesicles to fight tuberculosis

The spherical vesicles, which can be delivered to immune cells, are expected to potentially trigger an immune response

The Hindu

Fight against AIDS, TB and malaria bounced back post-COVID - but not enough

(Corrects to clarify data is from 2022 report, covering 2021 data)

Reuters

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Inside abandoned WWI tuberculosis hospital where kids' dolls still hang from windows

An urban explorer has delved deep into a hospital just 30 miles outside Edinburgh and revealed the eerie interior where children's dolls still hang from the ceiling

Daily Mirror

Inside spooky Scots wartime tuberculosis hospital where children's dolls hang from windows

The wartime tuberculosis hospital in Edinburgh has been abandoned since closure in 1997.

Daily Record

Patients hail new treatment for drug-resistant TB

PARIS: Volodymyr celebrated a major milestone on Wednesday - his final day of taking a new treatment hailed as a turning point in the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Bangkok Post

Tuberculosis awareness campaign at Mysuru Airport

MYSURU A tuberculosis awareness campaign was organised at the terminal building of Mysuru Airport wh

The Hindu

Tanzanian TB patients have a lower quality of life than people who haven't had the disease

Numerous researchers have documented the quality of life and mental health of specific population groups. Examples include people living with HIV, the elderly, students, men who have sex with men, and pregnant women accessing health services. One review found that people with tuberculosis (TB) have a relatively high prevalence of…

The Conversation

BCG vaccine can protect against Covid, new report finds

The report suggests that the BCG tuberculosis vaccine can significantly strengthen the immune system

The Independent UK

TB is good at resisting antibiotics. Here are some new ideas to outsmart the bacteria

Two new studies draw on data from more than 12,000 patients to help figure out ways to battle antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis.

WEKU

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Daily Mirror

Haunted sanatorium where thousands of patients died and you can play ball with a ghost

Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky was opened up to help contain a tuberculosis outbreak and a series of 'bloody' experiments were carried out on its suffering patients

Edinburgh Live

East Lothian urban explorers find creepy doll with bleeding eyes in abandoned hospital

East Fortune hospital closed in 1997 but was once used to treat tuberculosis patients. The inside of the abandoned building has been explored by urban explorers who made the creepy find

Daily Record

Terrifying doll with bleeding eyes found inside abandoned Scots hospital

Until the Second World War, the hopsital was a tuberculosis sanatorium for patients in the south east region of Scotland

Tribune News Service

Johns Hopkins-led consortium gets $200 million to fight tuberculosis

BALTIMORE — Johns Hopkins Medicine has received $200 million in federal funding to head up a consortium aimed at treating and stemming spread of one of the world’s oldest and deadliest scourges: tuberculosis.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

‘Without Find and Treat I wouldn’t be here’: the NHS service caring for London’s vulnerable

On the streets of the capital with the doctors, nurses and outreach workers administering care to at-risk populations. Photographs by Tom Pilston

Daily Record

Healthy nurse dies 24 hours after diagnosis - leaving family heartbroken

Carrianne Franks was hospitalised for nine weeks with a unknown illness, before doctors identified it as tuberculosis just hours before she passed away.

Nottingham Post

Healthy Nottinghamshire nurse found out she had tuberculosis less than 24 hours before she died

Family were not able to say goodbye

The Conversation

It's getting harder for scientists to collaborate across borders – that's bad when the world faces global problems like pandemics and climate change

The United Nations and many researchers have emphasized the critical role international collaborative science plays in solving global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss and pandemics. The rise of non-Western countries as science powers is helping to drive this type of global cooperative research. For example, Brazil, Russia, India, China…

Bangkok Post

Funding the fight against NCDs

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, lung disease, diabetes, obesity and mental disorders, are often chronic and develop over a long period. Collectively, NCDs account for about 70% of all deaths globally (and 60% of deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa, where they account for over 55% of hospital admissions…

The Hindu

ICMR-NIRT to evaluate benefit of shorter TB-treatment regime

It will evaluate the efficacy of a four-month daily regimen for tuberculosis treatment using Moxifloxacin

The Hindu

COVID-19 triggered stigma, discrimination may keep testing rate low: study

‘Education and need for psychosocial intervention to deal with the negative impact of the stigma on individuals and families affected by COVID-19 continues to be vital,’ says Dr. Padmapriyadarsini

1 … 8 9 10 11

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Bharatiya Janata Party

20,950 stories

RAF

1,644 stories

World Health Organization

New England Journal of Medicine

31 stories

Johns Hopkins Medicine

23 stories

Bassetlaw Hospital

11 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.