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Worldwide Tuberculosis News : Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Europe: Managed or mismanaged?
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:35:34 GMT
BARCELONA The European Respiratory Society as well as researchers from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) are warning against the dangers of multidrug-resistant TB.

Worldwide Tuberculosis News : India needs to help fight diseases
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:18:00 GMT
Emerging economies such as India, China and Brazil need to share responsibility to help the world become free of disease, said Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund for AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis.

Worldwide Tuberculosis News : International Literacy Day
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:35:47 GMT
TO raise international awareness of and concern for literacy problems within communities, International Literacy Day is celebrated on September 8 each year. This year’s observance highlights the importance of literacy in health and education, with strong emphasis on epidemics and communicable diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria. First celebrated in 1996, the day reminds the ...

Crisis hits Third World hardest
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:07:11 GMT
PARIS — The global economic crisis has claimed many victims — unemployed workers, underwater homeowners and bankrupt pensioners — but nowhere have the repercussions been as devastating as in the developing world. The setback to the fragile gains of recent years, particularly in Africa, threatens to return millions of people to the extreme poverty from which they had just managed to escape. In ...

New Two-Hour TB Test
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:18:04 GMT
JOHANNESBURG, Sep 3 (PlusNews) - 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

New Two-Hour TB Test
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:25:25 GMT
JOHANNESBURG, Sep 3 (PlusNews) - 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. Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) read more

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 ...

New test can diagnose tuberculosis in under 2 hours
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:02:23 GMT
A new molecular test for tuberculosis made by Cepheid can diagnose TB and detect a drug-resistant form of it far more easily and rapidly than other tests currently available, scientists said on Wednesday.

Conference to focus on food resources
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:44:06 GMT
RENO — It is a problem commonly associated with developing nations and the notions of poverty. However, the World Food Programme wants to dispel any myths that hunger only happens to people in poorer conditions.

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.

Breakthrough test gives fast diagnosis of drug-resistant TB
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:16:48 GMT
A groundbreaking new test can accurately diagnose drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in as little as two hours, researchers wrote in a study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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 ...

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

AIDS fight needs cash, recession or no: advocates
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:04:00 GMT
Advocates engaged in the battle against HIV and AIDS urged donor countries Friday in Tokyo not to cut their contributions amid the global economic slump. Their plea came during a symposium held in Chiyoda Ward hosted by The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Japan Center for International Exchange; Friends of the Global Fund, Japan; Magnum Photos; and the Asahi Shimbun to kick ...

TB breakthrough test
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:34:12 GMT
A new test can accurately diagnose drug-resistant tuberculosis in as little as two hours, researchers have written in a study.

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."

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Cepheid ‘Revolutionary’ Test Spots TB Super Bugs in 90 Minutes
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:43:04 GMT
Technology that protects U.S. postal workers from anthrax also cuts the time to diagnose tuberculosis to minutes from days, giving doctors a new tool to snag an ancient killer resurging globally.

UBC lab aims to design better traffic systems, reduce accidents
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:32:37 GMT
Engineers at the University of British Columbia are building what they hope will be a reliable system for predicting the likelihood of car crashes in a specific area, a development that could help save lives and cut pollution.

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 04:23:15 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.

New test can diagnose tuberculosis in under 2 hours
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:00:04 GMT
* Molecular test able to rapidly detect 98 pct of TB cases

Superfast TB test slashes waiting time
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:21:05 GMT
Infection with tuberculosis can be diagnosed easily and accurately in less than two hours.

Cepheid’s ’Revolutionary’ Test Identifies TB Within Two Hours
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:42:39 GMT
Technology that protects U.S. postal workers from anthrax also cuts the time to diagnose tuberculosis to minutes instead of days, giving doctors a new tool to snag an ancient killer resurging globally.

New test can diagnose tuberculosis in under 2 hours
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:04:15 GMT
Source: Reuters * Molecular test able to rapidly detect 98 pct of TB cases * Experts say results "impressive", cost-effectiveness key By Kate Kelland LONDON, ...

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.

New TB diagnostic proves effective, expedient, study finds
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:32:09 GMT
( NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ) 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.

New England Journal of Medicine Study Shows New Molecular TB Test Could Offer Rapid and Effective Diagnosis in ...
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:16:03 GMT
GENEVA, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- A study(1) published in The New England Journal of Medicine today 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 ...

New TB test diagnoses disease in under 2 hours
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:27:22 GMT
Scientists are excited about a new test that can diagnose regular and drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis far more easily and quickly than other currently available tests.

Obama Global Health Initiative Targets Maternal, Child Health, Disease
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:16:39 GMT
Initiative also focused on family planning, programs to fight infectious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS

Commitments to global HIV/AIDS programs falter for 'first time in 15 years,' UNAIDS chief says
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:57:52 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.

New test top diagnoseTB proves effective, convenient
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:17:21 GMT
Washington, Sep 2 : Scientists have come up with 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.

Experimental TB Test Called Fast and Accurate
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:09:37 GMT
Health experts say it has potential to greatly improve treatment of the respiratory disease.

Shazam Unveils Major Feature Update for its Music Discovery Apps for iPhone and iPod touch on App Store
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:15:08 GMT
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shazam Unveils Major Feature Update for its Music Discovery Apps for iPhone and iPod touch on App Store

Shazam Unveils Major Feature Update for its Music Discovery Apps for iPhone and iPod touch on App Store
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:00:00 GMT
LONDON----Shazam, the world’s leading mobile discovery provider, today announces significant feature updates on the App Store, many of which take advantage of iPhone 4 features and iOS4 operating system.

New England Journal of Medicine Study Shows New Molecular TB Test Could Offer Rapid and Effective Diagnosis in ...
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:00:00 GMT
A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine today reports that a new molecular tuberculosis 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.

New TB Diagnostic Proves Effective, Expedient
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:05:03 GMT
Early NIH Support Instrumental to Development of New Tool

As Flu Season Approaches, Some Health-Care Workers Say No to the Flu Shot
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:46:56 GMT
As summer comes to a close and the influenza virus starts calling open season on our immune systems, one would hope that health-care workers have gotten their CDC-prescribed yearly flu shot by now — especially given their high rates of job-related exposure to infectious disease and their easy access to the vaccine. Guess again. According [...]

Russia and AIDS: The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:36:18 GMT
Women’s rights are high on the international agenda as the world moves towards a more egalitarian model, finally creating and respecting gender equality and the empowerment of women.

Two-Hour Test for TB Reported to be Clinically Effective
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:34:35 GMT
New, automated diagnostic test for TB, developed by a public-private partnership including UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School scientists, showed excellent results in a large-scale field trial. The results appear in the Sept. 1 New England Journal of Medicine.

Global Governments Urged To Redouble Poverty-Cut Efforts
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:25:13 GMT
CANBERRA, Sept 1 (Bernama) -- A declaration, which was passed on Wednesday in Melbourne, called on world governments to redouble their efforts for the sake of the poorest and least politically powerful people, China's Xinhua news agency reports.

Govts urged to redouble poverty efforts
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:24:43 GMT
A gathering of the world's aid and charity groups in Melbourne has called on governments to redouble their efforts to help the poor.

2.6 million Chinese hit by cancer annually
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:54:54 GMT
BEIJING: The cancer mortality rate in China has increased by 80 percent over the past 30 years, and it is reported that some 1.8 million cancer-related deaths occur annually, Qatar News agency reported, citing Health Minister Chen Zhu as saying.

Global governments urged to redouble poverty-cut efforts
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:10:18 GMT
A gathering of the world's aid and charity groups on Wednesday called on world governments to redouble their efforts for the sake of the "poorest and least politically powerful people".

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