Outdated Tuberculosis Medical Procedure

Tuberculosis - Diagnosis and treatment

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For active tuberculosis, you must take antibiotics for at least six to nine months. The exact drugs and length of treatment depend on your age, overall health, possible drug resistance and where the infection is in your body. Most common TB drugs. …

Diagnosing Latent TB Infection & TB Disease | TB | CDC

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Medical History. Clinicians should ask about the patient’s history of TB …

Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Disease Fact Sheet - Centers …

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9 Terrifying Medical Treatments from 1900 and Their …

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Treatment for Latent TB Infection and TB Disease | TB

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a public statement related to nitrosamines impurities in rifampin and rifapentine, two important anti-tuberculosis (TB) …

Public Health Emergencies | TB | CDC

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It is very important that people who have tuberculosis (TB) disease are treated, take the drugs exactly as prescribed, and finish the medicine. If they stop taking the drugs too soon, they can become sick again. If they do …

21 Bizarre Medical Practices From Our Past | Bored Panda

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Physicians believed that a collapsed lung would heal faster, so they used the plombage method to forcibly collapse the lung. During the procedure, a doctor would create a cavity underneath the upper ribs and fill the space …

Standard operating procedures for tuberculosis care

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Recommendations Health authorities, national TB programmes, national and international technical agencies, civil society organisations and donor agencies are urged to prioritise …

Medical procedures that have gone obsolete in your …

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When a scientist named Robert Koch extracted harmless protein from the tuberculosis bacterium, people realized that they could use the protein the same way …

Top 10 Outdated Medical Treatments - Listverse

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While it sounds barbaric, leeches do have true medical merit; they are used in some kinds of reconstructive surgery to prevent clotting, as the leeches produce a special anti-coagulant enzyme (called hirudin) in …