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Simple strategy could prevent half of deadly tuberculosis infections
By using a combination of inexpensive infection control measures, hospitals around the world could prevent half the new cases of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB), according to a new study in The Lancet by researchers at Yale School of Medicine.   view more (2007-12-19)

AIDS, TB, malaria and bird flu spread unchecked in Burma
Government policies in Burma that restrict public health and humanitarian aid have created an environment where AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria and bird flu (H5N1) are spreading unchecked.   view more (2006-03-28)

New blood tests for TB show exposure to disease while tuberculin skin tests do not
Two new interferon-gamma blood test assays to detect latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) showed customers were exposed to a supermarket employee in Holland who had smear-positive tuberculosis, while traditional tuberculin skin tests (TST) did not, according to a large contact study.   view more (2007-03-15)

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev initiates project to eliminate intestinal worms in Ethiopia
A professor at The Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) is beginning an intensive program in Ethiopia this August to eradicate intestinal worms which affect as much as 50 percent of the population in Africa.   view more (2008-08-06)

Vaccine hope for malaria
One person dies of it every 30 seconds, it rivals HIV and tuberculosis as the world's most deadly infection and the vast majority of its victims are under five years old.   view more (2007-05-24)

US soldiers in high-tuberculosis areas face new epidemic: false positives
U.S. Army service members are increasingly deployed in regions of the world where tuberculosis (TB) is rampant, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, and the military now faces a growing medical problem.   view more (2008-05-30)

Tuberculosis breaches borders, but not public health
Immigrants from countries with high rates of tuberculosis who move to countries of low TB incidence do not pose a public health threat to native citizens, according to researchers in Norway, who analyzed the incidence and genetic origins of all known cases of TB in the country between 1993 and 2005.   view more (2007-11-01)

Uprooting and replanting the tree of life
A new theory on the evolution of ancient microbes is set to challenge widespread scientific views of early life on earth and could overturn previous interpretations of the huge bank of molecular taxonomic data that has been built up in recent years, according to research published today in the... view more (2002-01-08)

Newly Identified Mechanism Helps Explain Why People of African Descent Are More Vulnerable to Tuberculosis
A team of scientists has identified a cellular mechanism that may help explain the puzzle of why people of African descent are more susceptible to tuberculosis infection and why, once infected, they develop more severe states of the disease than whites.   view more (2006-02-27)

Faster, more accurate tuberculosis test developed
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Imperial College London, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, in Lima, Peru, and other institutions have developed a simple and rapid new tuberculosis (TB) test.   view more (2006-10-12)

Global Fund must fund salaries of health workers to deliver HIV, TB and malaria treatments
In this week's PLoS Medicine, a team of international health experts issue a bold call to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria: fund the salaries of health workers or else risk a situation in which medicines for these three diseases are made available in poor countries but there are no... view more (2007-04-17)

Change in guidelines could help eliminate TB in US
To eliminate tuberculosis (TB) in the United States, current guidelines should be changed to reclassify all foreign-born residents from high-incidence countries as "high-risk," regardless of the amount of time they have lived in the U.S.   view more (2007-01-03)

Tuberculosis drug may cure Parkinson's-like illness
Researchers have discovered that a drug used to treat tuberculosis apparently cures patients of a Parkinson's-like illness suffered by thousands of mineworkers, welders and others exposed to high levels of the metal manganese.   view more (2006-06-07)

New blood tests aid detection of latent tuberculosis
Thanks to the availability of two new blood tests called T-SPOT.TB and QuantiFERON-TB Gold, physicians around the world can better detect latent tuberculosis (TB) infection.   view more (2006-10-02)

Drug resistant TB on the increase
The global tuberculosis problem is getting worse - recent figures showed that London has more cases of TB now than it has had for over thirty years. Drug resistance can make this formerly controllable condition almost unmanageable. On 29-30 March, international experts will gather at the Royal... view more (2001-03-14)

Comprehensive treatment of extensively drug-resistant TB works, study finds
The death sentence that too often accompanies a diagnosis of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) can be commuted if an individualized outpatient therapy program is followed - even in countries with limited resources and a heavy burden of TB.   view more (2008-08-07)

The Lancet Infectious Diseases (TLID) and The Lancet Oncology (TLO)
This month's issue gives extensive coverage to tuberculosis ahead of the World TB Congress taking place in Washington D.C. from June 3-5. News desk - Findings from the WHO`s 6th annual report on global TB control-This report states that around 70% of TB cases still remain undetected and that... view more (2002-05-29)

Harvard team creates spray drying technique for TB vaccine
Bioengineers and public health researchers have developed a novel spray drying method for preserving and delivering the most common tuberculosis (TB) vaccine.   view more (2007-02-13)

Biodegradable microspheres deliver time release vaccines, stimulate different immune response
A new vaccine delivery system using microspheres of a biodegradable polymer may not only reduce the need for booster shots in some cases, but also appears to stimulate an immune response that traditional vaccines do not.   view more (2007-03-01)

New antibiotic drug combo to speed up treatment of tuberculosis
A team of tuberculosis (TB) experts at Johns Hopkins and in Brazil have evidence that substituting the antibiotic moxifloxacin in the regimen of drugs used to treat the highly contagious form of lung disease could dramatically shorten the time needed to cure the illness from six months to four.   view more (2007-09-19)

Mega-Capable Microchips
"The ISTC project #2019, utilizing cutting-edge technology to create rapid diagnostic kits for multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis, has been very successful. I have been very impressed by the caliber of the Moscow Engelhardt Institute leadership and staff. And the ISTC has played a major role... view more (2003-08-28)

Media invitation: First Annual EDCTP Forum
Enrico Garaci, President of the Istituto Superiore di Sanit'  (ISS), Stefano Vella, Director of Drug Department (ISS), together with Piero Olliaro, Executive Director of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) and Pascoal Mocumbi, High Representative of the EDCTP... view more (2004-09-27)

New TB test means quicker and easier diagnosis for patients
A new blood test could enable doctors to rule out tuberculosis (TB) infection within days rather than weeks, according to a new study published this week in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.   view more (2008-03-10)

MGH initiates phase I diabetes trial
Scientists at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have initiated a phase 1 clinical trial to reverse type 1 diabetes.   view more (2008-03-14)

Call to reduce medical risks to refugees on repatriation
In a commentary article published this week in International Journal for Equity in Health, Siroos Mirzaei and co-authors call for medical professionals involved in the repatriation of refugees to "institute preventative measures to minimize the possible medical and psychological complications" that... view more (2003-10-31)
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