News about 'community'

Photo by John-Michael Maas Each day, thousands of people around the world are affected by tuberculosis whether directly or indirectly, and every 20 seconds one of these people die. TB hits all ages and all races with great devastation, but has become so ingrained in history that it has been assumed...

Working Group on New TB Drugs Annual Meeting The 2010 Annual Meeting will be held on November 12, 2010 Please check this page for continuously updated information. The WGND will host our annual meeting prior to the start of the 41st Union World Conference on Lung Health (The Union) in Berlin. WHEN...

The following is a guest posting from Joanna Breitstein of the TB Alliance, reporting from the Open Forum 4 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Open Forum 4 While there were few new TB treatment prospects a few years ago, today there are 10 drugs in the global development pipeline. Noting the sea of change,...

Cameron Kaiser, MD Last week , Dr. Kaiser shared his thoughts and perspectives as a medical doctor on the current state of TB drug regimens. This week he shares specific ideas on how TB drug R&D could be improved. From a clinical perspective, I think there are some less obvious aims to optimize...

Cameron Kaiser, MD Viewpoint by Cameron Kaiser, MD, Medical Consultant for Tuberculosis, Riverside County Department of Public Health, California and guest WGND blogger. Antibiotics are, to the typical patient, always the quick fix. Despite our best attempts to convince them that their viral...

Fourth Annual New England TB Symposium On Friday, July 16 th , the fourth annual New England TB Symposium took place at the Broad Institute, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The symposium was in collaboration with the US-Japan Cooperative Medical Sciences Program: 45 th Tuberculosis and Leprosy...

This post originally appeared on the Stop TB Partnership website: http://www.stoptb.org/news/stories/2010/ns10_043.asp FIFA World Cup 2010 6 July 2010 – Johannesburg, South Africa – Tuberculosis is on the agenda at the Football for Hope Festival 2010 – an official event of the 2010 FIFA World Cup...

This article originally appeared in the American Journal of Nursing here: http://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/Fulltext/2010/07000/The_War_on_Tuberculosis.14.aspx Haile Meskel emerges from his Newark, New Jersey, row house and slips into the passenger seat of a shiny, late-model sedan, where a woman...

photo courtesy LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky's blog This post originally appeared on the website of LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky: http://zev.lacounty.gov/news/health/future-of-olive-view-tb-ward-in-doubt Los Angeles County is spending more than $16 million to build a dedicated...

from The New York Times In Florida, a Lifeline to Patients With TB By DAMIEN CAVE LANTANA, Fla. — The last of the nation’s original tuberculosis sanitariums sits, improbably, just off Interstate 95, near a Dunkin’ Donuts and a Motel 6, and just behind fields of children playing soccer. The fading...

Johns Hopkins Medicine On Friday, June 11 th , the Johns Hopkins University Center for Tuberculosis Research hosted their annual scientific meeting and the WGND was there to cover the event. Approximately 100-200 people were present including persons from NIH and small pharmaceutical companies...

Dr. Bill Bishai DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA (May 26, 2010) – The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute today announced the appointment of William R. Bishai, M.D., Ph.D., as the first permanent director of the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K...

A Satellite Session at the 2nd TB Conference June 3, 2010; 16:00 – 18:00 MR 11, ICC, Durban Community engagement in TB drug research is growing practice, made possible by the fact that several new drug candidates are entering clinical trials. This roundtable will provide a forum for dialogue...

Dr. Stewart Cole Stewart Cole helped create the Global Health Institute in 2007. Located at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), will use cutting-edge techniques to seek solutions to tuberculosis, a growing threat worldwide. Dr Cole’s work on tuberculosis, leprosy, AIDS, gas...

FT.com For World TB Day, the Financial Times’ Andrew Jack interviewed various members of the TB community to get their take on a range of topics: Paul Stoffels, head of R&D at Johnson & Johnson , explains why drugs to cope with tuberculosis have been slow to emerge from the pipelines of the...