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News Tuberculosis News : WLNS TV 6 Lansing Jackson Michigan News and Weather - WLNS.COM | Bovine tuberculosis meeting set for Emmet County
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:41:44 GMT
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Michigan agriculture officials plan to have a public meeting to discuss the presence of bovine tuberculosis in Emmet County. The meeting will be 7 p.m. Sept. 16 at the West Traverse Township Hall.

News Tuberculosis News : Bovine tuberculosis meeting set in Mich. county
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:29:12 GMT
(AP:LANSING, Mich.) Michigan agriculture officials plan to have a public meeting to discuss the presence of bovine tuberculosis in Emmet County.

News Tuberculosis News : VOA News Examines U.S. Global Health Initiative
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:26:31 GMT
VOA News examines President Barack Obama's $63 billion Global Health Initiative (GHI), noting the initiative's emphasis on cost-effective strategies to improve child- and maternal-health as well as programs to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. The article includes recent comments by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on the role the GHI will play in strengthening health ...

Automated Test for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Gives Results in Hours
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:30:13 GMT
Research indicates the test is 98 percent accurate when compared with positive results from the old method — examination of sputum by a trained microscopist.

People with diabetes at risk from TB
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:59:15 GMT
People with diabetes are at a high risk of tuberculosis (TB). "There are several studies that have been done, there are systematic reviews that have been done which indicates that people with diabetes might have 2 to 3 times higher risk of getting ...

Thai-ASEAN News Network
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:23:00 GMT
Myanmar has one of the worst health care systems in the world as only 3% of the national budget is spent on health. People are dying of treatable diseases at an alarming rate and International agencies have no access to ethnic communities.

Social Good Summit: Tackling Global Challenges with Social Media
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:01:13 GMT
Mashable is proud to be partnering with the UN Foundation, 92Y, Livestream.com, CNN and a host of teams and organizations to produce a unique opportunity to make UN Week accessible to the public -- both online and offline.

Floods: animal-transmitted diseases a threat
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:08:34 GMT
THIS is apropos of a news item (Aug 18) that expressed concern over the looming threat of an outbreak of zoonotic diseases in the wake of floods. Zoonotic diseases are transmitted in a variety of ways, and affect people seriously.

South Africa Unions’ Strike Suspended
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:01:06 GMT
South Africa’s trade unions suspended a three-week-old strike by hundreds of thousands of government workers.

South Africa Strike Suspended
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:18:13 GMT
South Africa’s trade unions Monday suspended a three-week-old strike by hundreds of thousands of government workers.

UCSF Researchers Win $900K NIH Grant to Create Array-Based Portable Pathogen-Detection System
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:10:23 GMT
Researchers at the University of California in San Francisco will use an $888,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a rapid, pan-viral microarray diagnostic for category A-C biodefense pathogens.

South Africa Unions' Strike Suspended
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:13:55 GMT
PRETORIA, South Africa -- South Africa's trade unions Monday suspended an almost three-week-old strike by hundreds of thousands of government workers that had closed schools and hamstrung ambitious new efforts to expand urgently needed medical services in the region's richest but most inequitable economy.

New park memorializes ORC
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:47:39 GMT
A new park commemorating the Oxford Regional Centre officially opened Saturday on Lakeview Drive in north Woodstock. The memorial park is now all that remains of the 90-year-old health-care facility that had a significant presence in Woodstock and Oxford County.[...]

Jail Simply Too Unsanitary for Blogging Wiseguy
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:41:56 GMT
WNBC It's one thing after another for diabetic mafia don Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli, who is cooling his heels at the Metropolitan Detention Center awaiting trial on racketeering and murder charges . Gioeli doesn't have any teeth, he suffered a stroke in February, and he says prison officials haven't filled his prescriptions or given him proper food for his diabetes. Now the alleged Colombo ...

Social Good Summit: Tackling Global Challenges with Social Media
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:16:32 GMT
Mashable is proud to be partnering with the UN Foundation, 92Y, Livestream.com, CNN and a host of teams and organizations to produce a unique opportunity to make UN Week accessible to the public — both online and offline. Today the…

TB reported by Menominee health officials
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:35:52 GMT
ESCANABA - Considered highly-contagious, and deadly if left untreated, two confirmed cases of tuberculosis have been reported in Menominee County, according to Jennie Miller, communicable disease and immunization coordinator for Public Health...

Any New Financial Transaction Tax Must Dedicate A Proportion Of Its Funds To Health
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:14:04 GMT
As Finance Ministers from the European Union gather in Brussels for a formal meeting to discuss the establishment of an EU-wide financial transaction tax, international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières calls on them to dedicate a proportion of the receipts from any fundraising mechanism to global health. "The EU is in a unique position to act here," said Dr. Tido von ...

Cheap And Accurate Tuberculosis Test Gives Results In Under Two Hours
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:26:31 GMT
A tuberculosis test, called Xpert® MTB/RIF, can successfully identify 98% of all culture-confirmed TB cases, including more than 90% of those with smear-negative disease, a study published in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine) reveals. The test is highly sensitive for tuberculosis as well as drug resistance to the powerful anti-TB drug rifampicin (RIF) in low resource settings, the authors ...

Mashable, 92nd Street Y and UN Foundation to Showcase Power of Social Media in Fighting Global Challenges
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:20:00 GMT
First-of-its-kind Social Good Summit opens up UN Week and brings the dialogue online for the first time.

Reportlinker Adds Animal Biotechnology - Technologies, Markets and Companies
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:40:00 GMT
NEW YORK , Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Animal Biotechnology - Technologies, Markets and Companies http://www.reportlinker.com/p0203534/Animal-Biotechnology---Technologies-Markets-and-Companies.html Summary This report describes and evaluates animal biotechnology and its application ...

Study shows disease rates decrease among Hispanics
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:57:53 GMT
Disease rates among Hispanics are dropping according to a new study by the Utah Health Department. Leaders in the local health care industry say it is encouraging news that will impact every Utahn. They say Hispanics feel more comfortable with their healthcare providers and understand the importance of regular medical checkups and early detection.

Mashable, 92nd Street Y and UN Foundation to Showcase Power of Social Media in Fighting Global Challenges
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:00:00 GMT
On September 20, as global leaders head to New York for United Nations Week -- including a historic summit on global issues known as the "Millennium Development Goals" and the annual General Assembly -- Mashable, 92nd Street Y and UN Foundation will bring together leaders from the digital industry, policy and media worlds for a groundbreaking Social Good Summit focused on how technology and ...

Michigan State University's College of Veterinary Medicine marks 100 years
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:02:14 GMT
Imagine mid-Michigan in 1855.

Reportlinker Adds Biomarkers - technologies, markets and companies
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:39:00 GMT
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:

Experimental TB Test Called Fast and Accurate
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:02:45 GMT
THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental test that can diagnose tuberculosis in less than two hours, making only one doctor visit necessary before treatment starts, is being hailed as a potentially significant advance against a disease that kills nearly 2 million people annually, most of them in developing countries.

Recent Releases In Global Health
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:29:33 GMT
Lancet Editorial Makes Recommendations For Health-System Strengthening "There is strong consensus in the global health community, among donors, recipient countries, and policy makers, about the need for health system strengthening in low-income and middle-income countries," write the authors of a Lancet Comment. The article recommends areas in health-system strengthening that need "more ...

Experimental TB Test Called Fast and Accurate
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:28:12 GMT
Title: Experimental TB Test Called Fast and Accurate Category: Health News Created: 9/2/2010 4:10:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 9/3/2010

Rwanda: Kagame Backs Development Goals
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:09:10 GMT
President Paul Kagame, yesterday, called on African states to pursue and achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) not because someone wants them to, but for the good of the African people.

Patient Friendly Research To Fight Tuberculosis
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:02:41 GMT
The present diagnosis and treatment regimen for tuberculosis is almost 40 years old. According to the WHO, with the currently available diagnostic tools, we are able to diagnose just 61% of TB cases globally.

Camel dairy hopes to milk health food market
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:37:17 GMT
The camels know the drill by heart. Just after dawn, they file on their own - always in groups of 12 - into metal stalls for milking. Workers attach automated pumps. The milk flows into a system of chilled pipes that empty into a sealed metal vat. The next... Milk - Dairy - Camel - Business - Cattle

Camel dairy hopes to milk health food market
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:06:58 GMT
The camels know the drill by heart. Just after dawn, they file on their own - always in groups of 12 - into metal stalls for milking. Workers attach automated pumps. The milk flows into a system of chilled pipes that empty into a sealed metal vat. The next... Milk - Dairy - Business - Camel - Food

New TB Diagnostic Proves Effective, Expedient, Study Finds
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:43:31 GMT
WHAT: A molecular test designed to easily diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and detect a drug-resistant form of the bacterium that causes TB can provide much more specific, sensitive and rapid results than currently available TB diagnostics, according to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine. In a test involving 1,730 patients with suspected drug-sensitive or multidrug-resistant pulmonary ...

Cepheid Shares Rise Following NEJM Study on TB Test
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:39:53 GMT
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A study appearing in the Sep. 9 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has reported unprecedented sensitivity and specificity achieved by Cepheid's new molecular tuberculosis test, driving the company's stock up around 9 percent today.

Frank Munger obituary
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:16:31 GMT
Artist who specialised in cutaway line drawings of aircraft The technical artist Frank Munger, who has died aged 90, specialised in cutaway line drawings of aircraft, their engines and missiles. His work was published in Flight International magazine for more than 40 years. Frank managed to make a seemingly complex subject readily understood, even down to the pilot's safety harness. Using pen ...

Health News from AP More>>
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:44:36 GMT
Scientists are reporting a major advance in diagnosing tuberculosis. They say that a new test can accurately show in less than two hours whether someone has TB and if it's resistant to the main drug for treating it.

New test detects TB faster, with more accuracy than current diagnostics, study says
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:58:02 GMT
A new molecular test for tuberculosis can diagnose the disease and detect a drug-resistant form of it in less than two hours and more accurately than current tests, according to the findings of a study published online in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, Reuters reports (Kelland, 9/1).

NEWS SCAN: Double-strain Salmonella outbreak, new TB test hailed, pneumococcal vaccine guidance
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:25:41 GMT
Outbreak involving 2 Salmonella strains detailed Scientists from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today that a small outbreak of Salmonella infections that occurred last fall at a catered reception involved two subtypes of the bacterium.

GLOBAL: New two-hour TB test
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:33:54 GMT
Source: IRIN A new, accurate, easy-to-use test can diagnose tuberculosis (TB) - including drug-resistant strains of the disease - in less than two hours. It has the potential to save thousands of lives in developing countries, where current tests are often unreliable, take weeks to process, or are simply unavailable.

In Focus
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:49:22 GMT
The United Nations' (UN) International Literacy Day annually falls on September 8 to raise people's awareness of and concern for literacy issues in the world. On this day each year, UNESCO reminds the international community of the status of literacy and adult learning globally.

New England Journal of Medicine Study Reports Xpert MTB/RIF a Faster, More Sensitive & Specific Test for Tuberculosis ...
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:00:00 GMT
Cepheid today announced that its Xpert® MTB/RIF test was the subject of a study published in the latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine , "Rapid Molecular Detection of Tuberculosis and Rifampin Resistance."

Virginia bans deer feeding through first of January
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:50:32 GMT
A ban on feeding deer in Virginia has been in effect since Sept. 1 and will remain in effect through the first Saturday in January. A year-round ban has been imposed in Clarke, Frederick, Shenandoah and Warren counties as part of chronic wasting disease management actions by state game officials.

South Africa: Survivor's Guide for Non-Striking Health Workers
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:53:58 GMT
Public sector strikes in South Africa have become so common in recent years that people are asking if plans should not be put in place to prevent the disruption of HIV and tuberculosis [TB] treatment, and prepare health workers.

New TB Diagnostic Proves Effective, Expedient
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:17:09 GMT
Early NIH support instrumental to development of new toolWHAT: A molecular test designed to easily diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and detect a drug-resistant form of the bacterium that causes TB can provide much more specific, sensitive and rapid results than currently available TB diagnostics, according to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine. In a test involving 1,730 patients with ...

Two-Hour Test For TB Reported To Be Clinically Effective
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:43:32 GMT
Research assessing the effectiveness of a new diagnostic test for the detection of tuberculosis (TB) is featured in the Sept. 1 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. A rapid automated molecular test, which was developed as a result of a public-private partnership between scientists at the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Cepheid and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND ...

Press Releases
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:37:01 GMT
A lawmaker is seeking a change in the health care system in the Philippines to achieve effective and universal health care for all Filipinos.

Test maker Cepheid's shares rise on NEJM article
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:59:50 GMT
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of Cepheid rose Thursday after a study showed the company's tuberculosis test can diagnose the condition in less than two hours with very high accuracy.

New test seen as big advance in diagnosing TB
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:28:09 GMT
Scientists are reporting a major advance in diagnosing tuberculosis: A new test can reveal in less than two hours, with very high accuracy, whether someone has the disease and if it's resistant to the main drug for treating it.

New England Journal Of Medicine Study Shows New Molecular TB Test Could Offer Rapid And Effective Diagnosis In ...
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:29:06 GMT
A study(1) published in The New England Journal of Medicine reports that a new molecular tuberculosis (TB) test, Xpert® MTB/RIF, provides highly sensitive detection of tuberculosis and drug resistance in low resource settings more easily and in significantly less time than any current, widely used diagnostic. The study, conducted by the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), showed ...

Commitments To Global HIV/AIDS Programs Falter For 'First Time In 15 Years,' UNAIDS Chief Says
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:14:32 GMT
UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe "said Thursday that global contributions to fighting [HIV/AIDS] are dropping off for the first time in 15 years amid tough economic times," Agence France-Presse reports. "The world economic recession is pushing countries ... to enforce austerity," Sidibe said during a press conference in Tokyo during which he called upon Japan to maintain its support for ...

New TB Diagnostic Proves Effective, Expedient, Study Finds
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:51:38 GMT
A molecular test designed to easily diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and detect a drug-resistant form of the bacterium that causes TB can provide much more specific, sensitive and rapid results than currently available TB diagnostics, according to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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