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Katie Babcock
Published: June 13, 2013, 8:47 p.m.·
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It's the second leading cause of death by an infectious agent worldwide. Now, University of Toronto Professor Frances Jamieson is tackling drug-resistant tuberculosis with a new, lab-based surveillance system that can track the spread of the disease in real-time.
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Johns Hopkins University
Published: June 13, 2013, 8:36 p.m.·
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WHO
Published: June 13, 2013, 8:23 p.m.·
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The interim guidance provides advice on the inclusion of bedaquiline in the combination therapy of MDR-TB in accordance with the existing WHO Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant TB (2011 Update).
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Will Boggs
Published: June 13, 2013, 8:10 p.m.·
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Though we still do not have a point of care diagnostic that is cheap, fast, and detects all TB including in people with HIV and children, there has been some improvement in diagnosis with direct nucleic acid amplification testing as the following article shows.
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Brook Baker
Published: June 12, 2013, 8:27 p.m.·
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LDCs stood together and won a partial victory at the World Trade Organization delaying the time within which they must become fully compliant with global minimums for protecting patents, copyrights, trademarks, and other forms of intellectual property. Although they committed to deliberate carefully, they won back policy space to reduce existing levels of intellectual property protection if appropriate in order to develop a viable technological base and to overcome severe and lingering capacity constraints. This same policy space will permit them to access more affordable medicines and medical technologies, educational resources, agricultural inputs, and green and climate control technologies.
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WHO
Published: June 12, 2013, 7:25 p.m.·
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The ERS and WHO will now provide scientifically sound and evidence-based advice, and clinical consultation through the Internet to national consiliums and individual practitioners on the management of MDR-TB and other difficult-to-treat TB cases, including TB/HIV and paediatric cases.
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TBVI,
Aeras
Published: June 12, 2013, 3:10 p.m.·
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Making new TB vaccines available to the world over the next 10-15 years is estimated to cost approximately €600 million, utilizing a highly efficient portfolio approach and adequate funding.
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Masembe Tambwe
Published: June 11, 2013, 11:12 p.m.·
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The National Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) Muhimbili Research Centre is embarking on a plan to make 'electronic noses' using computer chips to detect TB compounds using breathalysers.
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Sylvia Rowley
Published: June 11, 2013, 11 p.m.·
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At a university laboratory in Tanzania, an unusual kind of medical research is taking place. Men in white coats watch as rats scurry around glass cages, but these rodents are not test subjects in the latest drug trial. In fact, they're the ones doing the testing, and they're proving rather good at it.
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Carly Hodes
Published: June 11, 2013, 10:40 p.m.·
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When hijacking a garbage truck, one might as well make use of the trash. That logic drives how tuberculosis-causing bacteria feed, say Cornell scientists.
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