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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...

Genotype MTBDRplus assay kit Last week we highlighted the Xpert® MTB/RIF assay for diagnostic testing . This week, we will briefly describe the GenoType® MTBDR plus assay . The GenoType® MTBDR plus assay uses PCR to amplify biotin-labeled amplicons (single-stranded DNA sequences) of M. tb from...

This story was published on NDTV.com http://origin-netmg.ndtv.com/article/india/the-outcasts-of-tb-tuberculosis-36625 It may be curable but Tuberculosis (TB) remains a stigma in our country especially for women. Over a lakh Indian women are thrown out of their homes each year because they have TB...

This post originally appeared on Voices of America news.com http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/health/Dual-Infections-Of-TB-And-AIDS-Make-Each-Harder-To-Treat-97817769.html TB patient in Lesotho Tuberculosis infects nearly ten million people each year and kills nearly two million. It is primarily...

TB Alliance and DNDi Enter into a Unique Collaboration New Potential TB Drugs to be Investigated Against Multiple Neglected Diseases A Unique Collaboration: TB Alliance and DND i Enter Cross-Disease License Agreement to Speed Development of Novel Therapies New York, United States and Geneva,...

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...

From the TBVI website: http://www.tbvi.eu/news-agenda/tbvi-news/news-message/tbvi-annual-report-2009-released.html TBVI 2009 Annual Report TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI), a foundation that aims to develop new vaccines for tuberculosis, today released its annual report 2009 . In 2009 TBVI...

Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation Announces Appointment of Accomplished Pharmaceutical Executive as President and CEO James E. Connolly Committed to Accelerating the Development of New Vaccines to Prevent Tuberculosis Rockville, Maryland, July 1, 2010 — The Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation today...

A biochip assay- an example of a diagnostic test based on disease biomarkers By far, one of the greatest needs in TB R&D is the identification of biomarkers. The value of biomarkers cannot be overemphasized. Briefly, we will highlight what biomarkers are, how they are used, and describe their...

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...

Analysis of PDP Funding Landscape released by G-FINDER Last week, an analysis of product development partnerships (PDP) funding based on data from G-FINDER was published in the journal, International Health . The article praises successful PDPs as productive and cost-effective, while calling...

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...

The TB Pipeline starts here! Our goal is to keep our audience up to date on the latest TB drug research & development. The past couple of months have seen a flurry of publishing activity. In order to present these to you quickly, we are diverging from our usual one-by-one analysis in favor of...

Press Release No:2010/432/AFR Contacts In Kampala: Steven Shalita, +256-414-302 248, sshalita@worldbank.org In Washington: Herbert Boh, +1-202-473-3548, hboh@worldbank.org The World Bank WASHINGTON, May 25, 2010 — The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved US$63.66 million to create...