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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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 ...

"The air sacs in the lungs are a critical first barrier against infections in humans, but we've traditionally looked at them ...

When he was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 2016, Georgi, then a worker in his 40s for the municipal water company in Bishkek, knew little about the disease beyond some stereotypes and what he learned ...

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 ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Of 111,155 tuberculosis diagnoses, researchers found ...

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 ...

Aizawl: At least 145 tuberculosis (TB) patients died out of 2,275 cases detected in Mizoram during 2025, while 84% of ...

TB patients with severe undernutrition have four to five times higher chance of mortality, necessitating early nutrition ...