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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...
30 Apr 2012
World TB Day Congressional Briefing Tuberculosis – We Can Beat this Global Killer Wednesday, March 21, 2012 A briefing and update on tuberculosis (TB), a disease that is curable but still takes the lives of 4,000 people each day and is the number one killer of people living with HIV. Special areas...
5 Mar 2012
U.S. Representative Donald Payne (D-NJ) Statement from RESULTS: RESULTS Mourns the Death of Rep. Donald Payne Joanne Carter, Executive Director of RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund, issued the following statement: RESULTS is saddened to learn of the death of Representative Donald Payne, who was a...
22 Feb 2012
Grzegorzewicz AE, Pham H, Gundi VA, Scherman MS, North EJ, Hess T, Jones V, Gruppo V, Born SE, Korduláková J, Chavadi SS, Morisseau C, Lenaerts AJ, Lee RE, McNeil MR, Jackson M. Inhibition of mycolic acid transport across the Mycobacterium tuberculosis plasma membrane. Nat Chem Biol. 2012 Feb 19...
26 Jul 2011
Recent articles from around the globe related to governments addressing problems with providing treatment services to those with tuberculosis: A Day in the Life of a TB Worker When Farhad Jameel, case manager at Gwinnett County’s tuberculosis control clinic, arrives at work each morning, he...
30 Mar 2011
Today was the opening of the 2-day Stop TB Partnership’s Coordinating Board (CB) meeting in Washington, D.C. which included welcoming remarks by Dr. Rajiv Shah (Administrator, USAID), Ms. Lois Quam (Executive Director, GHI), and Dr. Howard Koh (Assistant Secretary, U.S. Depart. of HHS). Having the...
23 Feb 2011
In addition, other discussions in the policy realm toss around the idea that the government should get a return on the sale of drugs that were developed with federal funds in the face of high drug costs and medical care. This debate surrounding the public sectors role in downstream drug development...
14 Dec 2010
The Wall Street Journal Health Blog reported that the FDA issued a draft guidance for the drug industry “designed to encourage companies to work in tandem to develop two or more new drugs to be used in combination to treat cancer and infectious diseases, among other illnesses.” This is exciting...
1 Nov 2010
This report was filed by Shaoli Chadhuri, a junior at Duke University. Duke Global Health Institute “When I told my friends about my summer plans, many were surprised to hear that tuberculosis still existed in the US, not to mention, right here in North Carolina,” writes Duke University senior...
22 Sep 2010
Rebecca, a DOTS Worker with the Global Tuberculosis Institute at UMDNJ, talks about the types of patients she sees and about the possibility of contracting TB herself. Click here to view part one of this interview series.
15 Sep 2010
Rebecca, a DOTS Worker with the Global Tuberculosis Institute at UMDNJ, talks about her experience working with patients at a local shelter.
8 Sep 2010
In June of this year, the WGND interviewed a patient in New Jersey who was being treated by the DOTS program of the Global Tuberculosis Institute at UMDNJ. While his point-of-view is by no means universal, it provides an oft-overlooked window into tuberculosis in the United States. USA TB Patient...
2 Sep 2010
This is part three of our interview, which was recorded on June 9, 2010 at the Global Tuberculosis Institute in Newark, NJ. > click here to view part one . >click here to view part two Dr. Lee Reichman Lee B. Reichman, MD, MPH, is the Founding Executive Director of the New Jersey Medical...
25 Aug 2010
This is part two of our interview, which was recorded on June 9, 2010 at the Global Tuberculosis Institute in Newark, NJ. > click here to view part one . Dr. Lee Reichman Lee B. Reichman, MD, MPH, is the Founding Executive Director of the New Jersey Medical School Global Tuberculosis Institute,...
19 Jul 2010
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...

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