Falling ill with TB and all the disruption and stress that goes along with it can take a toll on someone’s mental health, and mental health problems can in turn make someone more vulnerable to TB.

The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD) released Literature Highlights compiling four clinical standards for TB now available free to read on PubMed Central.

The framework is meant to address the limited uptake of collaborative activities to reduce the burden of TB and comorbidities and to support countries in enabling access to people-centred care.

These study findings support the World Health Organization’s recommendation to initiate antiretroviral therapy in HIV-positive pediatric patients within 2 weeks of initiating treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis.

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Makes rifapentine-based treatment available at an affordable price to support TB prevention in low-and middle-income countries

Three McCormick School of Engineering students have developed an automated staining system using 3D printing technology that enables high-throughput sputum smear diagnostics for TB at the patient’s point of care (POC). The design, named POCAS TB and built during the biomedical engineering capstone BME 390-1-20: Biomedical Engineering Design course, recently earned the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge’s NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR) Prize for HIV/AIDS.

The intervention included meeting with experts, texting services to improve and facilitate communication, and data collection and dissemination.

There appears to be an inverse correlation between body mass index (BMI) and the risk of tuberculosis, especially in the underweight population, a recent study has found.

Tuberculosis (TB) can be cured, but completing TB treatment can sometimes be difficult. Treatment for drug-susceptible forms of TB takes six months and some of the medicines have side effects. Treatment of drug-resistant TB typically takes more than six months and the risk of side effects is substantially higher.