2015-07-01 Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Less Likely to Spread
The number of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis cases is rising. Multi-drug-resistant TB results from a bacterium – a group of small living…
2013-09-01 Fighting Malaria, Brain Cancer and TB
Welcome to As It Is, from VOA Learning English. I’m Christopher Cruise. Today, we’ll report the latest news in the…
2018-01-19 Could Vitamin C Help Fight Tuberculosis?
A new study suggests that a low-cost nutrient could help drugs fight tuberculosis more effectively. The study found that anti-tuberculosis…
2016-05-30 WHO Advises Faster, Cheaper Treatment for Tuberculosis
The World Health Organization is proposing a new way to fight the disease multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. WHO officials say the…
2012-02-01 What Happens When TB Becomes Untreatable?
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. In December, doctors in Mumbai, India, reported about a group of patients…
2011-08-17 WHO Urges Ban on Blood Test for Tuberculosis
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization is urging health officials to ban commonly-available blood…
2009-03-25 New Test Could Speed Tuberculosis Results
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Tuberculosis killed one million three hundred thousand people around the world in…
2006-03-29 Increased Efforts Urged to Fight Tuberculosis
I’m Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Health Report. Almost two million people every year die from tuberculosis. Almost…
2004-09-08 Finding and Treating Tuberculosis
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Experts on tuberculosis say the best treatment program for…
2004-06-23 Tuberculosis and Women
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Tuberculosis kills about two million people a year. The international campaign called…
2001-09-11 – Tuberculosis
VOICE ONE: This is Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with Science in the News, a VOA…