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Gates Foundation Awards Grant For Development Of A Database To Accelerate Discovery Of New Therapies Against Tuberculosis

19 November 2008

Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc. (CDD) today announced that it has received a grant for $1,896,923 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a collaborative database that will enable scientists to archive, mine...
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TB Patient Gets New Windpipe Made With Own Stem Cells

19 November 2008

A 30-year old Columbian woman living in Spain whose airway was damaged from tuberculosis is the first person in the world to receive a new airway engineered from tissue that was grown from her own stem cells which means she...
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Interpol Seizes $6.65M In Counterfeit HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB Drugs In Southeast Asia

18 November 2008

The International Criminal Police Organization recently confiscated $6.65 million worth of counterfeit HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis drugs in Southeast Asia and made 27 arrests as part of a five-month investigation...
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Tuberculosis News Articles Archive - Page 1

18 November 2008

News From Annals Of Internal Medicine, Nov. 18, 2008, Issue

15 November 2008

100,000 Saved From Dying Of Tuberculosis

Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Cases Decline But Do Not Disappear

14 November 2008

Cellular Safety Shelters Allow TB Agent To Survive In Infected Individuals

12 November 2008

Global Fund Grants Nearly $3B For HIV/AIDS Efforts

10 November 2008

Zimbabwe Returns $7.3M In Misused Grant Money To Global Fund

07 November 2008

Malawi Receives $20M Grant To Bolster HIV Treatment, Testing Efforts

Newly Discovered Protein May Help Explain Tuberculosis' Resiliency - Experts Find Another Reason Why The Bacterium Is So Nasty

06 November 2008

Clues As To How Tuberculosis Might Be Thwarting The Immune System

Deadlier And More Mysterious Than Ever: XDR-TB

05 November 2008

Tuberculosis Cases Among Santa Clara, Calif., Asian Community Increasing, Asian Week Reports

04 November 2008

Global Fund Says Zimbabwe Misused Grant, Requests Return Of Money

Killing Machinery Of Immune Cells Exploited By Persistent Bacterial Infection

02 November 2008

Bacteria Follow The Crowd In Decision To Grow

31 October 2008

Nepal Faces Numerous Challenges In Achieving HIV/AIDS Millennium Development Goal, Inter Press Service Reports

Innovative Global Health Research Funded By 2 Grants Of $100,000 To Weill Cornell Medical College

U.N. Secretary-General Calls On World Leaders To Fulfill MDG Pledges In Face Of Economic Crisis

30 October 2008

Is There An Increased Tuberculosis Risk To Undocumented Immigrants Due To Health-Care Barriers?

29 October 2008

Global Fund's Technical Review Panel Recommends Zimbabwe's Funding Application Be Approved

Sequella Presents Data On Synergy Between Investigational New TB Drugs SQ109 And TMC207

28 October 2008

Rome Film Festival Premieres Film Inspired By U.N. Millennium Development Goals

27 October 2008

The Union Announces A Successful Trial Of A TB Candidate Vaccine To Prevent Tuberculosis Among HIV-infected Patients

24 October 2008

Safer, More Effective TB Vaccine For HIV-Positive People

New Vaccine Reduces TB Incidence By 37% Among HIV-Positive People, Study Says

21 October 2008

New TB Test Reveals Patients At Risk, Says Study

Estimate Of Lives Lost Due To Delay In Antiretroviral Drug Use For HIV/AIDS In South Africa

Identification Of Type Of Vaccine That Holds Promise In Protecting Against TB

X PRIZE Foundation To Help Fight Tuberculosis Worldwide With Gates Foundation Support

20 October 2008

Dr Piot To Head Imperial College's New Institute For Global Health

19 October 2008

Mortality Reduced By Integrating Antiretroviral Therapy With TB Treatment For Co-Infections

17 October 2008

Identification Of New Antibiotic Target And New Antibiotic Mechanism May Lead To New Broad-Spectrum Antibacterial Agents, Tuberculosis Treatments

Rutgers Researchers Identify New Antibiotic Target And New Antibiotic Mechanism - May Lead To New Tuberculosis Treatments

16 October 2008

Decreased TB Funding Could Hinder HIV/AIDS Efforts, Researchers Say

CDC Statement On National Latino AIDS Awareness Day

15 October 2008

Global Financial Crisis Puts Success Of MDGs At Risk, U.N. Head Says

New Information About Diabetes' Link To Tuberculosis Discovered By UT Public Health Experts

9,000 Year-Old Skeletons Reveal Earliest Known Human TB

Global Alliance For TB Drug Development Receives Pledge Of Up To $40 Million From USAID

TB Alliance Enters Collaboration With Sanofi-Aventis To Fight Tuberculosis - Aim To Accelerate Development Of Drugs Against Tuberculosis

10 October 2008

Identification Of Gene With Probable Role In Human Susceptibility To Pulmonary Tuberculosis

08 October 2008

Opinion Piece Examines Public Health Issues In Russia, Including HIV/AIDS, TB

The Lilly TB Drug Discovery Initiative Gets New Compounds For Early-Stage TB Drug Pipeline

A Step Closer To A Groundbreaking, Lifesaving TB Vaccine

06 October 2008

Extensively Resistant Tuberculosis: A Ray Of Hope Is Announced In Berlin - Breakthrough By German And Italian Researchers

Millions Of Deaths Expected From The Burning Of Solid Fuel In Homes In China

03 October 2008

GBC, Booz & Company Report Examines Corporate Engagement On HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria

02 October 2008

Developing Countries Face Shortage Of Medical Workers Trained To Treat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, Reuters Reports

01 October 2008

Tuberculosis Hospitalizations Fall 41 Percent, USA

30 September 2008

TB Bacterium Uses Its Sugar Coat To Sweeten Its Chances Of Living In Lungs

PolyMedix Presents Data On Anti-Tuberculosis Activity Of Its Novel Antibiotic Compounds

29 September 2008

Promising New TB Drug Receives Phase 2 SBIR

24 September 2008

How To Differentiate Abdominal Tuberculosis From Lymphomas?

23 September 2008

Tuberculosis - Results On Efficacy Of Medical Acoustics' Lung Flute® To Be Presented At European Respiratory Society Congress

22 September 2008

Early Antiretroviral Treatment For People With HIV/TB Coinfection Could Reduce Mortality By Half, Study Says

How To Prevent Liver Damage Induced By Anti-Tuberculosis Treatment?

19 September 2008

House Committee Approves 10 Health-Related Bills

16 September 2008

SRI International Begins NIAID-Funded Drug Evaluation Program For Tuberculosis

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