Tuberculosis Diagnosis Rate Higher Among New Mothers After Childbirth

According to a new UK-wide cohort study published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the incidence of TB (tuberculosis) diagnosis is substantially higher in new mothers after childbirth, indicating that this group of women represents a potentially new target group selected for screening…

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WFP To Halve Food Aid To Yemen Though one in three people in Yemen is “suffering from chronic hunger,” the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) said Tuesday it has been forced to halve its food aid to the country because of a lack of funding from donors, Reuters reports (Nebehay, 5/4). Emilia Casella, a WFP spokeswoman, “said 3.4 million Yemenis needed food aid…

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Discovery Of Chemical Reaction Process Could Lead To New Malaria, TB Treatments Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign say that a recent finding could help develop new treatments to fight diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, KWMU reports (LaCapra, 2/15)…