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Africa: Big Brother Africa Supports Fund Against Malaria
Yenagoa :: Nigeria | about 13 hours ago
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Big Brother Africa Supports Fund Against Malaria Osa Okhomina 24 November 2009 Yenagoa — The hit television programme; "Big Brother Africa Revolution" and African private sector companies are supporting the Global Fund's fight against malaria by contributing...
Tags: big brother, brother africa, Nigeria, Yenagoa, Malaria No More, Global health, Business Finance, Tropical diseases, Malaria, Tuberculosis, Neglected diseases
Birdlife explosion as possum numbers slashed
Auckland :: New Zealand | about 24 hours ago
Credibility 00 27/11/2009 A dramatic drop in the estimated possum population is good news for native birds. New research shows possum numbers have plummeted from between 60 and 70 million during the 1980s, to about 30 million.
Tags: possums numbers, possums population, New Zealand, Auckland, Environment, Possums, Common Brushtail Possum, Marsupial, Agriculture in New Zealand, Conservation in New Zealand, Tuberculosis, usage in New Zealand, Landcare
Vaccination Campaign In Liberia; Cell Phones For Family Planning Services; Global Fund In Myanmar
Yangon :: Myanmar | 2 days ago
Credibility Liberia Aims To Reach 3M With Yellow Fever Vaccine Liberia's Daily Observer reports on a yellow fever vaccination campaign to begin this week that will aim to inoculate 3 million Liberians. WHO, the initiative is in response to "the discovery of more...
Tags: global funding, family planning, cells phones, Liberia, Myanmar, Yangon, Tuberculosis, Healthcare, Kaiser Family Foundation, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria, Burma, Global health, Public health, International nongovernmental organizations, Social Issues, Health Medical Pharma
Judge dismisses Andrew Speaker suit against CDC
Athens :: Greece | 2 days ago
Credibility District Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention filed by an Atlanta lawyer who claimed the agency invaded his privacy. The lawsuit stemmed from a high-profile case involving Andrew Speaker, who alleged...
Tags: Andrew Speaker, Craig T. Jones, CDC, Greece, Athens, Tuberculosis, tuberculosis scare, Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Bacterial diseases, Pulmonology, Health in the United States, Law Crime
THE FIGHT AGAINST TB
TB is an infectious disease that spreads through a germ known as mycobacterium tuberculosis. It usually affects the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body like, kidneys, lymph nodes, brain, joints, bones, spine, etc. SN: What is an infection?...
Tags: TB, Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, resistant tb, Pulmonology, Lungs TB, Bacterial diseases, infected person, Tuberculosis, Meningitis TB, Health Medical Pharma, drug resistant, tb patient, health, Microbiology, San Francisco, Infectious diseases, The National, Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, tb germ, AIDS
Connection between Diabetes and Tuberculosis
Mumbai :: India | 6 days ago
Credibility Diabetics are more vulnerable to acquire tuberculosis, according to a new study. To clear the link between both diseases, researchers at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston released 13 studies performed in Canada, Mexico, U.S., England, Russia,...
Tags: India, Mumbai, Public health, Diabetes mellitus, Tuberculosis in China, Diabetes, Pulmonology, Tuberculosis, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues
Sir John Crofton, Pioneer in TB Cure, Dies at 97
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 6 days ago
Credibility The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh announced his death . Sir John started his research in the late 1940s, just as the first antibiotics were entering clinical practice, carrying with them the hope of conquering a disease for which helpless physicians...
Tags: John Crofton, sir john, John Wenman Crofton, Dr. John Guyett Scadding, Johns Hopkins University, University of Edinburgh, cure tuberculosis, Brompton Hospital, bed rest, Britain, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, Royal Brompton Hospital, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Denis Mitchison, Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, Tuberculosis, Streptomycin, 4-Aminosalicylic acid, Health Medical Pharma
SOUTH AFRICA: Turning the tide against drug-resistant TB
Durban :: South Africa | 7 days ago
Credibility Three years ago, the Church of Scotland Hospital at Tugela Ferry, in the rural Umsinga area of South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal Province, was the focus of international media attention as the epicentre of a deadly outbreak of extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis...
Tags: tb cases, tb treatment, cure rate, told irin, Church of Scotland Hospital, Umsinga, resistant tb, South Africa, Durban, Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, Tuberculosis treatment, Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, Tugela Ferry, TB Alliance, Bacterial diseases, Pulmonology, Tuberculosis, Health Medical Pharma
KENYA: Stigma holding back the fight against TB
Siaya :: Kenya | 7 days ago
Credibility When Dorothy*, a single mother of five, told her neighbours in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, she had tuberculosis (TB), she expected sympathy and maybe even offers of help. PlusNews. "Yes, tuberculosis is very infectious, but those who have it are not...
Tags: health worker, Joseph Sitienei, Kenya, tb infected, tb patient, Siaya, Immunodeficiency, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, AIDS, HIV, Pulmonology, Bacterial diseases, Tuberculosis, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues
Experts warn antibiotic-proof bacteria threaten global health
Brussels :: Belgium | 8 days ago
Credibility Europe where antibiotics consumption is higher than elsewhere. "We are getting closer to the wall and we are not far from it," Monnet said...Premature children, reanimation services and oncology departments are particularly in need of efficient antibiotics,...
Tags: ECDC, Europe, resistant bacteria, Dominique Monnet, european countries, Belgium, Brussels, Staphylococcaceae, Antibiotic, Tuberculosis, Staphylococcus aureus, Meticillin, Bacterial diseases, Microbiology, Pulmonology, Health Medical Pharma
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