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World Lung Foundation Warns U.S. Budget Cuts Will Slow The Fight Against Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

World Lung Foundation (WLF) today warned that the sequestration of the United States Federal Budget will have the unintended consequence of slowing efforts to control and eradicate tuberculosis - particularly multi-drug resistant tuberculosis - both...

Sequestration Funding Cuts Jeopardize TB Clinical Drug Trials

ATS 2013, PHILADELPHIA - Innovative and potentially game-changing clinical trials to develop new drug regimens to prevent and treat tuberculosis (TB), the second leading global infectious disease killer, are in jeopardy due to federal "sequestration" funding cuts. New CDC-funded TB treatment study findings were announced today in Philadelphia at the American Thoracic Society annual meeting where,...

Drug-Resistant TB Destroyed By Vitamin C

In a striking, unexpected discovery, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture. The finding suggests that vitamin C ad...

BNF updates include TB dose changes

The doses of rifampicin and ethambutol in the treatment regimen for tuberculosis have been increased in this month’s British National Formulary and BNFC updates to reflect recommendations from the World Health Organization and the European Medicin...

International AIDS Advocates Demand China Give $1 Billion to Global Fund

DC Press Conference: Friday, May 24, 10:30am, National Press Club Noting that the world’s second-largest economy received nearly $1 billion from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria over the past decade, but contributed just $25 million, AIDS patients, doctors and advocates from around the world affiliated with AIDS Healthcare...

Shortage of key drug hampering U.S. efforts to control TB, report says

(HealthDay)—A shortage of a critical tuberculosis drug has hampered the efforts of health departments across the United States to contain the spread of the highly infectious lung disease, federal officials report.

TB Drug Shortage Hurts Treatment, Prevention (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- An unexpected shortage of the tuberculosis drug isoniazid (Nydrazid) has hampered TB control and treatment across the U.S., the CDC reported.

Consensus Statement On Research Definitions For Drug-Resistant TB In Children

The Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (JPIDS) has released its June issue, which includes a consensus statement of the global Sentinel Project on Pediatric Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis. It establishes standardized definitions, measu...

Vitamin C Kills Mycobacterium tuberculosis

TB bacteria, including drug-resistant strains, are ultrasensitive to the vitamin C prooxidant effect. Medscape Medical News

Portable Device Assays Genetic Detection of Pathogens

A handheld diagnostic device has been developed and adapted to rapidly diagnose tuberculosis and other important infectious bacteria.

Vitamin C May Be Key to New TB Treatments

(MedPage Today) -- In a serendipitous discovery, researchers said they killed cultured strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria with vitamin C.

Targeting High-Risk Neighborhoods May Eliminate Tuberculosis

Identifying specific neighborhoods that have a high incidence of tuberculosis followed by testing and treating the residents proved to eliminate those communities’ cases of tuberculosis, according to new research published in the American Journal of Public Health. A latent tuberculosis infection, called LTBI, accounts for the development of most

LabCorp Testing for Tuberculosis Diagnosis

The Nevada State Health Division is alerting physicians and healthcare workers of updated protocols regarding sputum samples being sent to LabCorp for tuberculosis diagnosis. State Health Alerts

Vitamin C Can Kill Drug-Resistant TB Bacteria

Vitamin C can kill drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture, according to a new, surprising discovery by experts at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. The research, published in Nature Communications, in...

JPIDS releases consensus statement of Sentinel Project on Pediatric Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

The Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society today released its June issue, which includes a consensus statement of the global Sentinel Project on Pediatric Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis.

Vitamin C kills drug-resistant TB bacteria in lab

In a striking, unexpected discovery, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria in laboratory culture.

Vitamin C can kill drug-resistant TB

In a striking, unexpected discovery, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in...

Study Finds Vitamin C Can Kill Drug-Resistant TB

NEW YORK, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a striking, unexpected discovery, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture. The finding suggests that vitamin C added to existing TB drugs could shorten TB therapy, and it highlights a new area for drug design...

Study finds vitamin C can kill drug-resistant TB (w/ video)

In a striking, unexpected discovery, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture. The finding suggests that vitamin C ad...

TB clinical drug trials in jeopardy due to federal sequestration funding cuts

Innovative and potentially game-changing clinical trials to develop new drug regimens to prevent and treat tuberculosis, the second leading global infectious disease killer, are in jeopardy due to federal "sequestration" funding cuts.

JPIDS: Releases consensus statement on research definitions for drug-resistant TB in children

(Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society) The Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society today released its June issue, which includes a consensus statement of the global Sentinel Project on Pediatric Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis. It establish...

Baron and Budd Draws Attention to New Chinese Mesothelioma Treatment Discovered Accidentally

Non-Invasive Drug for TB Proves Effective in Easing Painful Effusion, Symptom of Late Stage Mesothelioma DALLAS (PRWEB) May 20, 2013 Chinese researchers have inadvertently stumbled on an effective, non-invasive treatment for easing pleural effusion, a distressing syndrome typical in advanced mesothelioma and other respiratory cancers. Formerly a standardized treatment for tuberculosis, the combin...

First Human Clinical Images Available with OCTIS™ Thanks to Tomophase Corporation and the Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg

BURLINGTON, Mass., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Tomophase Corporation, a leading developer of minimally invasive optical coherence tomography (OCT) tissue imaging devices, announced today that the Thoraxklinik at the University of Heidelberg, Germany has taken the first OCTIS images in clinical patients with the Tomophase OCT Imaging System (OCTIS™) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.co...

Equatorial Guinea To Renovate All Its Hospitals Within Four Years

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The government of Equatorial Guinea is working to renovate all the hospitals in the country within the next four years, according to Minister of Health Tomas Mecheba Fernandez Galilea. Mr. Fernandez, who is also secretary general of the Socialist Party of Equatorial Guinea (PSGE), discussed the renovation project in a press confe...

Global Health, Development and Business Leaders Announce New Innovative Financing Partnership to Deliver Essential Health Supplies More Quickly and Efficiently

A New 5-year Guarantee Has the Potential to Unlock Immense Private Sector Financing, Accelerating Efforts to Achieve MDGs Today, leading global health and development experts from the public and private sectors are joining forces at the 2013 GBCHealth Conference to announce a new partnership that will leverage private sector funding to speed up deliver...