News
January 4, 2008
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered new drug targets to fight tuberculosis and other bacterial infections.
December 28, 2007
Drug-resistant tuberculosis could threaten India's progress in using the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program to stem the spread of the disease.
December 28, 2007
China is not doing enough to fight tuberculosis in the country and should not rely on initial success in controlling the disease, Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu recently told state media.
December 28, 2007
Morocco has adopted the Global Plan to Stop TB, 2006-2015 in an effort to meet the health targets outlined in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
December 28, 2007
The Indian government has begun talks with Sun Microsystems to create an Internet-management tool for an open-source drug discovery program that would foster the development of low-cost tuberculosis drugs.
December 20, 2007
Purdue University announced that pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has given the university the technology and branding rights for the antibiotic Seromycin, which is used to treat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.
December 20, 2007
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $2.4 million in grants to the Weill Cornell Medical College for research into and the development of more effective tuberculosis drugs.
December 20, 2007
John Kappelman, professor of anthropology at the University of Texas-Austin, and colleagues from Germany, Turkey and the U.S. found characteristic signs of the disease on the skull of a male Homo erectus.
December 20, 2007
December 7, 2007
Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly recently announced that it will donate $1.6 million to help expand the Lilly MDR-TB Partnership, which seeks to control multi-drug resistant tuberculosis worldwide.
December 7, 2007
Canada will contribute 105 million Canadian dollars, or about $106 million, to an initiative that aims to prevent deaths among children in Africa and Asia from malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases.
December 7, 2007
Pakistan's National Tuberculosis Control Program will ensure that people living with the tuberculosis have consistent drug access through improved resource management and coordination among partners.
December 7, 2007
The South African province of Gauteng has received 393.3 million rand, or about $57 million, to help fight multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and extensively drug-resistant TB.
December 7, 2007
The Kenyan government plans to declare tuberculosis a national disaster. About 70 people die daily from TB in Kenya.
December 7, 2007
Zoonotic working group calling for spotlight on the tranmission of TB (M. bovis) to humans from animals.
December 7, 2007
Austrian vaccine developer Intercell recently announced that it has launched Phase I clinical trials of a new preventive tuberculosis vaccine.
December 7, 2007
Pills that combine therapies for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria need to be developed to save some of the 6 million children that die of treatable diseases each year.
December 7, 2007
Johns Hopkins Children's Center has received a $946,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to design a system that visually tracks the behavior of the tuberculosis bacterium in the body and its response to current and new drug treatments.
November 29, 2007
HIV/AIDS and TB programs should collaborate and provide people with Tuberculosis HIV tests and antiretroviral drugs.
November 29, 2007
WHO representative mentions that the new TB drug-resistant stains are threatening global control of the disease.
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