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TB Project Screens Migrant Workers in the Field and Tracks Them From State-to-State The State of Florida established a system for tuberculosis testing, assessment and treatment services for its migrant farmworker population in Northeast Florida and attempted to set up the model in South Florida. | Grant Results Reports | 03/06/2007 |
The purpose of the current study was to investigate if an individual's actual purified protein derivative (PPD) status could be predicted by their reports of their PPD status and what factors were related to any discordance between actual and reported PPD status.... Published In: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Journal articles | 10/01/2004 |
Tuberculosis Prevention in Mexican Immigrants: Limitations of Short-Course Therapy Foreign-born residents in the United States account for almost half of the nation's tuberculosis cases, making treatment of immigrants central to the elimination of the disease. In 2000, the American Thoracic Society and the Centers for Disease Control and... Published In: American Journal of Preventive Medicine | Journal articles | 02/01/2004 |
New Study Finds Surprising Increases in Low Birth Weight Rates in Suburbs Across the United States A new report released today finds that low birth weight rates have risen sharply in many urban areas across the country, with suburbs surprisingly outpacing cities. The average rate of increase in suburbs was nearly three times that for cities. According to the most... | News releases | 08/06/2002 |
Integrating Corrections and Community Health Systems Can Enhance Screening and Treatment of TB The Institute for Law and Policy Planning, Inc., Berkeley, Calif., carried out a study of tuberculosis (TB) screening and treatment procedures in jails and community-based health care facilities in two representative California counties. | Grant Results Reports | 08/01/2000 |
Researchers at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University investigated completion rates of tuberculosis (TB) therapy from 1990 to 1994. | Grant Results Reports | 01/01/1998 |
So How Did It Go? Sizing Up the Five TB Demonstration Projects The University of California, San Francisco, carried out a qualitative evaluation of the Old Disease, New Challenge program to monitor and evaluate five demonstration strategies. | Grant Results Reports | 10/31/1997 |
Having Someone in Their Corner Helps TB Patients Negotiate System Bellevue Hospital, New York, formed a coalition with five community-based organizations to screen for tuberculosis infection and disease in the community and provide appropriate patient management services. | Grant Results Reports | 10/01/1997 |
More Research is Needed on Preventing and Treating TB in Children A three-day scientific workshop on tuberculosis in children, co-sponsored with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and 15 other government agencies and private health groups, was held in Atlanta, Ga., on August 1-3, 1994. | Grant Results Reports | 10/01/1997 |
Should TB Patients Who Don't Take Their Medicine be Detained? From 1995 to 1997, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine studied the issue of detaining TB patients who are persistently non-adherent to therapies. | Grant Results Reports | 10/01/1997 |