News about 'Announcements'

17 Feb 2016
Tuberculosis continues to become more resistant to existing drug regimens resulting in a need for constant innovation on the part of drug researchers. In an article published by Medicalxpress.com which can be found here , researchers are reported to have found a chemical alteration that makes...
22 Nov 2015
Cape Town, South Africa, Dec. 5, 17:30 – 20:30 We invite you to join us for the Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New Drugs’ Annual Meeting 2015 at Southern Sun Cape Sun Hotel , Cape Town, South Africa, on Saturday, Dec. 5th from 17:30 to 20:30. This meeting is held before the 46th Union World...
19 Feb 2015
TB Alliance announced that its compound TBA-354 has started Phase I clinical trials. This announcement is particularly exciting given that TBA-354 is the first TB drug to enter Phase I trials since 2009. TBA-354 is a next generation compound in the nitroimidazole class, which also includes...
23 Oct 2014
22 OCTOBER 2014 AT 12:01 a.m. EDT CONTACT Mike Frick, Treatment Action Group +1 405.388.4490 New York, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 22, 2014 —Worldwide, governments, foundations, and companies invested US$676.7 million in research to develop new drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics against tuberculosis (TB) in...
21 Sep 2014
We invite you to join us for the Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New Drugs’ Annual Meeting 2014 at AC Hotel Barcelona Forum , Barcelona, Spain, on Wednesday, Oct. 29th from 15:00 to 19:00. This meeting is held before the 45th Union World Conference on Lung Health (The Union). During the...
8 Sep 2014
Moxifloxacin Results of the Phase III REMoxTB clinical trial were published in the New England Journal of Medicine on September 7th, 2014. REMox or Rapid Evaluation of Moxifloxacin in Tuberculosis (REMoxTB) was a trial designed to determine whether replacement of either ethambutol or isoniazid with...
10 Jun 2014
On June 9 th , the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released six policy reports detailing the domestic and global health burden of tuberculosis and recommendations for the United States government to combat the disease. The policy reports were the culmination of major findings...
1 Jun 2014
The Kick TB Campaign is a unique project that uses football (soccer), the World’s most popular sport, to educate and engage young people in the effort to stop the spread of tuberculosis. First inaugurated in South Africa during the 2010 World Cup, Kick TB has expanded to Brazil, the host country of...
29 Apr 2014
The European Commission has approved Delaminid (Deltyba™) for use in patients suffering from MDR-TB. Delamanid was developed by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a Japanese pharmaceutical company dedicated to drug discovery for tuberculosis. The press release from Otsuka can be found here Related...
22 Apr 2014
TB Alliance has announced that it will conduct a landmark Phase 3 clinical trial aimed at shortening the treatment of drug sensitive and MDR-TB. The trial known as STAND (Shortening Treatments by Advancing Novel Drugs) will test the PaMZ drug regimen composed of two drug candidates not yet approved...
26 Mar 2014
TB Alliance , an international non-profit whose mission is to develop better and more affordable drugs against tuberculosis, made three announcements on World TB Day demonstrating their commitment to combating childhood TB. Web portal for childhood TB On World TB Day, the TB Alliance in partnership...
6 Mar 2014
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recently approved Sirturo (bedaquiline) for conditional use in the European Union for adults suffering from pulmonary MDR-TB. The press release from Multimedia News Release can be found at: http://www.multivu.com/mnr/65014-sirturo-treatment-multi-drug-...
25 Nov 2013
Source: European Medicines Agency http://www.ema.europa.eu On 21 November 2013, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended the granting of a conditional marketing authorisation for the medicinal product Deltyba for the treatment of lung infections due to multidrug-...
5 Sep 2013
You are invited to join us for the Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New Drugs’ Annual Meeting 2013 at Le Méridien Etoile in Paris, France, on Oct. 29th from 15:00 to 19:00. This meeting is held before the 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health (The Union). During the meeting we will review...
27 Aug 2013
Image Courtesy of Expert Medical Education This interactive workshop is held in conjunction with the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC). The workshop is intended to provide clinicians, researchers, students and representatives from regulatory non-government...

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