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Over the past couple of weeks there have been much discussion and reporting on totally drug-resistant tuberculosis (TDR-TB) based on reports of new cases in India. Here are links to coverage of TDR-TB in India, excerpt from a response by Dr. Nardell who we interviewed last year, and link to the WHO...

On September 16, the 4th International Workshop on Clinical Pharmacology of Tuberculosis Drugs was held adjacent to the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) which was held from September 17 to 19. Between the two meetings, there were many updates related to TB...

Last week we posted information about two special issues of Future Medicinal Chemistry focused on neglected diseases. Future Medicinal Chemistry (September 2011, Volume 3, Number 11) have a few articles on tuberculosis drug development: Diarylquinolines, synthesis pathways and quantitative...

Operation ASHA is an NGO based out of New Delhi, India and Chicago, USA Summary: Shelly Batra is a renowned gyn & obs surgeon in New Delhi. She has a deep desire to serve the community. She has worked pro-bono for dissemination of medical information with many television stations and newspapers...

The first detailed study of the private tuberculosis (TB) drug market, published on May 4 th , in the PLoS ONE journal, finds that the market is surprisingly large, and has irregular practices that could be driving treatment failures and contributing to the emergence of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-...

This post was contributed by Vivek Dharmaraj of Advocacy to Control TB Internationally (ACTION Project) based in Pune, India. The names have been changed for privacy. ACTION Mohini Bai came to our NGO about 8 years back. She had lost her husband to AIDS and both she and her younger son had also...

This article originally appeared in the Hindustan Times . To read more about the stigma that women TB patients in India can face, please click here . Indian women TB patients can face stigma or even violence. Photo: John-Michael Maas / Darby Communications Eight months into her marriage, Rose...

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...

New research to speed TB drugs to those who need it most New York and Bangalore, India, May 3, 2010 The TB Alliance and AstraZeneca announced today at the 2010 BIO International Convention that they have entered into a research collaboration agreement to accelerate the discovery, development and...