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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Tuberculosis (TB) patients who smoke will recover far more quickly if they can quit—and help could come from their mobile ...

I knew of John Green from his excellent teen novels "The Fault in Our Stars," "Looking for Alaska" and "Turtles All the Way Down." When I heard he had written "Everything is Tuberculosis: The History ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this March 24, 2018 file photo, a relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient at a TB hospital on World Tuberculosis Day in Hyderabad, India. The number of people killed by ...

Doctors have recommended forcibly detaining people in South Africa who refuse treatment for a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis, an extreme measure meant to keep the infected away from others to ...