A group of tuberculosis community activists is taking their quest for representation in responses to TB global, joining efforts across borders to make their voices heard, an announcement this week says. The Global Coalition of TB Activists came together at a February Stop TB Partnership meeting in Geneva, the announcement says, with the aim of [...]
When a week of events focusing on the worldwide impact of tuberculosis brings together a group to talk about women’s health and diplomacy, it needs to be a broad-based group, and it was. For a start, the talk at the Washington Club in Washington, DC was sponsored by The Center for Global Health and Diplomacy, [...]
In the week leading up to International Tuberculosis Day, which commemorates the discovery by Robert Koch of the cause of the disease in 1882, Science Speaks will look at issues, events and efforts to confront this lasting and global health threat. When South African nurse Pat Bond got sick in 2010, doctors treated her for [...]
In the week leading up to International Tuberculosis Day, which commemorates the discovery by Robert Koch of the cause of the disease in 1882, Science Speaks will look at issues, events and efforts to confront this lasting and global health threat. Recently, Science Speaks reported on a WHO bulletin that pointed to the impact of [...]
“In healthcare we have to work with what’s already happening” Nathan Sigworth was a freshman in college when he spent a month visiting a small hospital in India, and made a simple discovery: economics there dictated a very different delivery of health care than he was used to seeing. In time, he discovered that while [...]
The report released this morning by the Institute Of Medicine portrays a global and growing danger that is both deadly and resource draining, brings the highest risks in the poorest countries, and threatens affluent countries as well. Still, coordinated efforts to tackle the proliferation of fake and substandard medicines lag far behind other efforts to [...]
Sharing drug equipment that includes water pipes, often living in close quarters, frequently imprisoned, and facing greater than average rates of other health conditions including alcoholism, hepatitis B and C, as well as HIV, people who use illicit drugs have higher than average odds of getting tuberculosis infection and disease, with outbreaks of drug-resistant strains [...]
In the wake of announcing clinical trial results that showed a candidate for a tuberculosis vaccine was safe, but did not protect babies from infection and disease, researchers are emphasizing what they have learned, and how it might yet pave the way for a long-term answer to the epidemic. The trial of MVA85A, a candidate [...]
McGill University researchers who analyzed 18 studies involving more than 7,000 people released findings today showing the GeneXpert rapid diagnostic test for tuberculosis detected the disease among 67 percent of samples in which it had been missed by smear microscopy, the most common diagnostic tool in low-resource but high burden countries. While both tests require [...]
This is how small the world of infectious diseases can be, and how recent the distant past. The patient who ended up at Baltimore’s Health Department in April 2011 had been treated with apparent success for tuberculosis before, in Kenya, where he was from. But now, he had a strain of the disease that was [...]
Research & DevelopmentWhat would people living with HIV do differently if they knew that they could be infected again, with a new strain, that
