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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

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

Daily Mirror

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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

Edinburgh Live

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

Daily Record

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.

Tribune News Service

‘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

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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.

Daily Record

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

Family were not able to say goodbye

Nottingham Post

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…

The Conversation

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…

Bangkok Post

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

The Hindu

Healthy nurse, 30, dies of tuberculosis 24 hours after tragic final texts to mum

Sgt Carrianne Franks feared she'd die as the disease was ravaging her body. The 30-year-old was diagnosed with TB in her final hours

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Large tuberculosis cluster emerges in Singapore

Singapore has imposed mandatory screening for tuberculosis in an apartment block after about 170 people tested positive for the infectious disease.

Daily Record

Tuberculosis warning symptoms as one person dies from TB and three others infected

Here is everything you need to know about TB and its symptoms.

The Independent UK

Former PMs urge government to increase spending on infectious diseases after Covid setbacks

Gordon Brown and David Cameron among 15 former world leaders demanding proper response to ‘reclaim the lost gains from Covid-19’ in global fight against Aids, tuberculosis and malaria

Evening Standard

Three people diagnosed with tuberculosis after student dies of disease at Welsh university

Three people have been diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) after coming into close contact with a student who died of the disease in a Welsh town.

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Health warning: One person dies from TB as three others infected in UK outbreak

Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection spread through inhaling tiny droplets from the coughs or sneezes of an infected person and is a potentially serious condition

The Conversation

HIV control approaches may not work for TB: lessons from South Africa and Zambia

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most deadly infectious diseases. Around 9.9 million people around the world fell ill with the disease in 2020 and an estimated 1.5 million people died.

The Hindu

Community involvement aiding battle against TB in Assam

Government sets goal of reducing tuberculosis infection rate from 217 per lakh in 2015 to 44 per lakh by 2025

The Conversation

Inhaled vaccine for COVID-19: The pandemic accelerated decades of research leading to jab-free vaccine now in human testing

No one wanted COVID-19. The pandemic has created misery, death and hardship, and it isn’t finished yet.

The Guardian - US

Canadian Arctic tuberculosis outbreak lays bare overcrowded living conditions

Officials in Nunavut say there are 31 cases of active tuberculosis in the hamlet of Pangnirtung, a community of 1,500

The Times of India

EMPE to set up TB testing kits facility

Hyderabad: Sweden-headquartered EMPE Diagnostics plans to invest Euro 25 million (approximately 208 crore) in setting up its global production facility for tuberculosis diagnostics kits at Genome Valley with a capacity to manufacture 2 million kits per month.

Edinburgh Live

Creepy abandoned hospital near Edinburgh filmed by urban explorer

The East Fortune Hospital was closed for good in 1997, after serving a psychiatric hospital and a tuberculosis ward - but entrance to the abandoned building is not recommended by police.

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