Items tagged with Diagnostics
Xpert TB test doesn’t reduce morbidity but it does have important advantages (post with simple image)
The need for a highly sensitive and specific affordable point-of-care TB test remains urgent.
Progress in diagnosing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (post with simple image)
Innovative project expands access to new test: the project known as EXPAND-TB helped to triple the number of MDR-TB cases diagnosed in participating countries.
CROI 2014: New drugs, novel combos top tuberculosis news at conference (post with simple image)
With increased TB activism and research into new treatments, preventive therapies, and diagnostics, the space devoted to TB at CROI has increased substantially.
The Lancet journals: World TB Day media alert (post with simple image)
For World TB Day 2014, The Lancet group publishes a Series of papers to highlight the need for global collaboration to diagnose, treat, and cure people with tuberculosis.
Fighting the white plague (post with simple image)
Today is World TB Day. More people die of tuberculosis in South Africa than from any other disease.
Tuberculosis makes a comeback (post with simple image)
Yerevan, Armenia - In a barren hospital room, Arman lies on a messily made bed as a nurse administers one of two daily antibiotic injections into his forearm. The 35-year-old ex-soldier was admitted nearly 18-months ago, having suffered a relapse of the bacterial lung infection tuberculosis (TB).
Punked by pharma: Public funds for private products (post with simple image)
Tax dollars are making it easier for the drug and diagnostics industry to develop and market essential TB products. Is the public getting a fair return on its investment?
Drug shortages threaten US anti-TB efforts (post with simple image)
Mounting problems with accessing life-saving products to diagnose and treat TB threaten the progress made against this communicable disease.
Reduced treatment delays for people with drug-resistant TB and HIV co-infection through decentralised care and rapid Xpert MTB/RIF test (post with simple image)
Decentralisation of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) management and use of the Xpert MTB/RIF test improves the time from clinic presentation to treatment from 50 days to 7 days in a population with a high burden of HIV and TB co-infection, according to a study from Khayelitsha, South Africa, presented at the 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014) on Monday.
New tuberculosis blood test in children is reliable and highly specific (post with simple image)
A newly developed test (TAM-TB assay) is the first reliable immunodiagnostic assay to detect active tuberculosis in children.
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