Word: tb
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...well. Not long after, researchers found two more clues to the serotonin-depression connection. The first was that reserpine, an anti-blood-pressure medicine that depresses serotonin levels, can sometimes trigger depression. The second came from iproniazid, originally developed as an anti-tuberculosis agent. The medicine worked against TB, which naturally made patients happy. When the euphoria did not wear off, however, scientists began to suspect that it was not entirely natural...
BERLIN: The World Health Organization announced the number of tuberculosis cases worldwide has leveled off for the first time in decades thanks to a new treatment plan which trains health care workers to make sure patients take their medicine. But the organization warned the skyrocketing number of TB cases in former Soviet bloc countries could afflict Western Europe and possibly the rest of the world if the plan is not vigorously applied there. The treatment strategy, known as DOTS -- Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course -- simply instructs medical workers, teachers and others to observe TB patients more closely in order...
...fury abates with Marcella, one of Bridie's daughters. Recovering in a TB sanatorium, she falls in love with Earl Taylor, a handsome young black man who delivers groceries. Their son is Elgin, and his daughter is Rayona. Dorris, whose own ancestry is Irish, French and Modoc Indian, writes that "the past ruled the present with unsympathetic dominion." And until Rayona, this is true. With her, the future is April going on May. Her reappearance at the end of this intricate and brooding second novel cools like a spring breeze...
...same time, the human defensive perimeters were crumbling. Underfunded prevention programs, along with excessive antibiotic use that led to drug resistance, were allowing diseases like TB, dengue fever, bacterial meningitis, yellow fever, cholera, malaria and even the dreaded plague to return. By the early 1990s there was a panicky feeling in the air that the microbes were exacting their revenge--and that humanity could do very little about...
...Website, and an E-mail network connects research centers around the world with the WHO's headquarters and field offices. The CDC too has a home page, which includes the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and a Travelers' Health section listing everything from assessments of TB risk on aircraft to health threats within specific countries...