A new study in "Nature Medicine" estimates 2 million people are incorrectly told they have TB each year — and clinicians miss ...

TACOMA –On Monday, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department announced it was monitoring a patient with active tuberculosis who had declined treatment. Court records reveal the woman has not followed ...

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Sepsis is a leading global cause of hospital deaths, occurring when the body's response to infection damages tissue and ...

Wards and hospital beds at the Mountain View TB Sanatorium, which opened in 1952 in Tacoma. It had single-bed rooms for the seriously ill and four-bed wards. The daily hospital expense was ...

A Washington state woman who was arrested after she refused for more than a year to consistently isolate or take medication for tuberculosis has finally been cured of the disease. The Tacoma-Pierce ...

Patient choice in taking treatment is framed by the physiological and psychological impacts of the disease and also by the social and cultural structures in which the person is immersed. [68] Patient ...

An HIV positive TB patient, holds a packet of tablets received as part of his treatment at Rutsanana Polyclinic in Glen Norah township, Harare June 24, 2019. - (Photo by Jekesai NJIKIZANA / AFP) ...

Tuberculosis outbreak hits a San Franscisco high school, with 3 active TB cases and over 50 latent infections. Health ...

In 1929 in Savannah, Ga., Edna Sutton dreamt of being a nurse. But, as a young black woman, she had few opportunities in her hometown, which was still ruled by Jim Crow laws. The only nursing she ...

Mumbai: When 30-year-old Fatima (name changed) was diagnosed with drug-resistant (DR) TB in Jan last year, her doctors were clear: Missing a dose or s.