The study first used laboratory models of pulmonary TB to examine the changes happening within the liver during the early stages of infection. It found that an immune response was triggered within ...

VIRAL hepatitis appears to be overtaking tuberculosis as the world's most deadly infectious disease. Hepatitis B and C now claim as many lives as TB - despite the existence of vaccines and ...

Tiyese Jeranji spoke to local experts about the interesting links between TB and liver problems. The complex set of links between TB and liver problems is often mentioned at conferences and in ...

People with hepatitis C, either treated or untreated, had an increased risk for developing active tuberculosis, according to data published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Baliashvili D ...

Types of extrapulmonary TB include gastrointestinal TB, skeletal TB, liver TB, and more. TB is a disease that occurs due to an infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. It mostly affects ...

Most TB medicines can be toxic to the liver; therefore, physicians must monitor liver enzymes and assess the risk of hepatitis. Lately, AI and machine learning (ML) models have been employed to ...

The World Health Organisation has raised the alarm that viral hepatitis could kill more people than malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV combined by 2040 if the current infection rate continues.

Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “These deaths could have been prevented. Thousands of people are dying every year in our country and ...