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...
News about 'crisis'
4 Mar 2010
Prof. Hans Rosling Compared to the widespread news coverage during the swine flu outbreak, TB receives little coverage, especially when you calculate the ratio of news hits to mortality. During a 13 day period in April and May of 2009, the WHO confirmed 31 deaths from swine flu. In that same period...
14 Feb 2010
Last week, a story in the NY Times explored the emerging threat of drug-resistant TB spreading in the aftermath of the tragic earthquake in Haiti . On Sunday, Feb 14, the NY Times published in a letter to editor from Dr. Lee Reichman, MD, MPH (Professor and Executive Director, UMDNJ-New Jersey...
4 Feb 2010
Sommervil Webert, 24, is a tuberculosis patient in the makeshift clinic in Port-au-Prince. (photo: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times) Even before the recent earthquake shook large portions of Haiti to rubble, the country already had the highest tuberculosis rate in the Americas (roughly 30,000 new...