{
  "id": 9381449,
  "title": "Preventive tuberculosis treatment starts waning after one year in high-burden settings, study finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/preventive-tuberculosis-treatment-starts-waning-after-one-year-in",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-23T17:40:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-tuberculosis-treatment-waning-year-high.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) is considered one of the most important public health tools to protect individuals and countries from the deadly infectious disease and is a critical part of the World Health Organization's goal to end the global TB epidemic by 2035. This treatment, which includes antibiotic medicines that can prevent inactive TB infections from developing into active…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}