Local health departments to offer program on TB

Posted May 23, 2017 11:00 pm

Submitted by Kane County Health Department

On Wednesday, June 14, the Kane County and Kendall County health departments, in collaboration with the Illinois Department of Public Health and Mayo Clinic Center for Tuberculosis, will offer a free educational program on tuberculosis.

Many people in the United States still suffer from this disease. Anyone can get TB, and current efforts to find and treat latent TB infection and TB disease are not sufficient.

It will be held from 8 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.at the Rush-Copley Heart Institute, 2088 Ogden Ave. in Aurora.

Topics will include: diagnosis; LTBI and TB Treatment; biologics (immunosuppressing drugs); pediatrics and diabetes; and more.

They are inviting primary care providers; doctors; physician assistants and nurse practitioners; registered nurses; infection control practitioners; and other health professionals working with tuberculosis to attend.

There will be a lunch sponsored by American Lung Association.

The course is free; continuing medical educational credit and continuing education units are offered.

For details, visit www.kanehealth.com.

Follow the health department at www.facebook.com/kanehealth or twitter.com/kanecohealth.

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