Tag: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

  • Nation & World

    In Peru, progress against TB

    A branch of Partners In Health in Peru has reduced the number of deaths from multidrug-resistant TB through a system of careful protocols.

    5 minutes
  • Health

    New childhood TB cases double earlier estimates

    Harvard researchers have estimated that around 1 million children suffer from tuberculosis annually — twice the number previously thought to have the disease and three times the number of cases diagnosed every year.

    2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Using evolution to understand pollution

    A tool rarely used to understand the impact of pollution on the natural world is evolution, an oversight that an environmental toxicologist says is robbing investigators of important information.

    5 minutes