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In India, Fighting TB with Fingerprints New Delhi resident Vishnu Maya has already noticed a difference in her health after a few weeks of treatment for the disease. I feel better. I have been feeling better for the last two to three days, she says.
Health Report - Study Links Smoking to Millions of TB Deaths 健康报道 - 一项研究称吸烟和肺结核病死亡有直接联系 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语健康报道。 The World Health Org
Pinpointing TB Treatment in Cities A new study says targeting treatment programs at specific neighborhoods may be a better way of controlling tuberculosis in some cities. The study looks at so-called TB hotspots. Lead author Dr. David Dowdy said a ho
Home TB Treatment Is Helping Patients in Swaziland Mai Nambuli is still a bit hesitant, but soon she will be the personal nurse for her friend Nosipho Mpama. Mpama has drug-resistant tuberculosis and needs medication injected every day for six months
Football, thats soccer to Americans, is the biggest and best sport in the world. There are millions of reasons why it is the world sport. For a start, it is played all over the world. The football World Cup is the biggest event on Earth. Its bigger t
Untreatable New Forms of TB Raising Alarm The World Health Organization (WHO) lists 69 countries that have reported what is officially called extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). It's a form of the mycobacterium that, like the one report
MSF: Alarming Scope of Drug-Resistant TB A medical aid group says the spread of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis is much greater than previously thought. Doctors Without Borders calls the situation alarming. MDR-TB is a form of tuberculosis that doe
New TB Regimen Simplifies Treatment U.S. researchers have identified a new way to treat people infected with tuberculosis before they get sick. The combination drug regimen, endorsed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), would
Protesters from No More People Living With HIV Dying From TB movement speak during International AIDS Conference 2010 in Vienna, Austria, 22 July 2010 More than a third of the planet's population is infected with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis
Study Says Tobacco Smoking Fuels TB Epidemic A recent report from the World Health Organization noted that for the first time, the number of people falling ill and dying from tuberculosis is declining. But with nearly one fifth of the world's populat
Tough TB Responds to Drug Treatment An antibiotic used to treat severe infections shows promise against a very resistant and deadly form of tuberculosis. XDR-TB is resistant to at least four of the drugs used most often against the disease. Extensive
Deaths from tuberculosis are increasing in the developing world and especially in Africa. It's the world's second deadliest infectious disease after HIV/AIDS. In 2008, nearly two million people died of TB and researchers warn that mortality rates wil
British scientists say they have found a way to diagnose tuberculosis in an hour. Alasdair Reid is an advisor on HIV and Tuberculosis (TB) at UNAIDS. He says diagnosing TB quickly will revolutionize the fight against the illness. It will save time fo
WHO Says TB Blood Test Inaccurate The World Health Organization is urging many low and middle income countries to ban the use of currently-available commercial blood tests to detect active tuberculosis. This is the first time WHO has issued an explic
By Jill Moss DEVELOPMENT REPORT -March 25, 2002: World TB Day This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Development Report. March twenty-fourth was World Tuberculosis Day. The yearly event is he
DEVELOPMENT REPORT – June 17, 2002: New TB Vaccine to be Tested By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Scientists are preparing to test the safety of a new vaccine medicine
Tuberculosis infects nearly ten million people each year and kills nearly two million. It is primarily a lung disease that spreads easily among people with weakened immune systems. Sub-Saharan Africa is still the epicenter of the HIV/AIDS disaster, b
Some of the main driving factors of sub-Saharan Africas growing tuberculosis epidemic can be found deep underground in its gold, diamond and precious mineral mines. A new Oxford University-led study warns of the health risks faced by miners and their
The World Health Organization reports a treatment program called DOTS has cured 36 million people with tuberculosis and saved up to eight-million lives during the past 15 years Lisa Schlein | Geneva 08 December 2009 New data show the World Health Org
Todd: Now, Phil, you're from England and you're a big football fan. Phil: Yeah, very much. Definitely. Football's one of my main passions in life. Todd: OK, I'm a huge American football fan, and I know American football there's a certain process when