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36 Million People With Tuberculosis Cured And Up To 8 Million Lives...
Main Category: Tuberculosis Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 17 Dec 2009 - 0:00 PST Some 36 million people have been cured of tuberculosis over the past 15 years through a rigorous approach to treatment endorsed by the World Health Organization . Comment?
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36 Million People With Tuberculosis Cured And Up To 8 Million Lives...
Main Category: Tuberculosis Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 17 Dec 2009 Some 36 million people have been cured of tuberculosis over the past 15 years through a rigorous approach to treatment endorsed by the World Health Organization . Comment?
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Continuous isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) better at preventing TB ...
Continuous isoniazid preventive therapy better at preventing TB than short-course in people with HIV Theo Smart , Wednesday, December 16, 2009 Taking isoniazid preventive therapy for 36 months prevents significantly more cases of tuberculosis in people living with HIV in a setting with a high burden of TB than simply taking a short course of IPT ... Comment?
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36 million people cured of tuberculosis over past 15 years - WHO
Some 36 million people have been cured of tuberculosis over the past 15 years through a rigorous approach to treatment endorsed by the World Health Organization . Comment?
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36 Million People with TB Cured
New data, released today by WHO, also indicate that up to 8 million TB deaths have been averted, confirming DOTS/the Stop TB Strategy as the most cost-effective approach in the fight against tuberculosis. Comment?
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American Week ends in Rajshahi
... essential maternal and child health care, family planning services, pre and post pregnancy care, treatment for Tuberculosis, and immunization services to more than 20 million people almost 14 percent of the total national population through its ... Comment?
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Panama City, Fla: A tuberculosis outbreak at a local high school leaves many parents concerned. Comment?
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Improving contact screening and isoniazid use in the Indian TB control programme
India is home to 21% of the world's tuberculosis cases, with 1.8 million new cases diagnosed each year, yet the case notification for children is less than 2%, according to a presentation given by Dr. Comment?
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TB, pregnancy, most common reasons for treatment changes in African study
... because of drug intolerance (12.4 cases per 100 patient-years), pregnancy (4.5 cases per 100 patient-years) and tuberculosis (2.5 cases per 100 patient-years). The finding calls attention to the dilemma facing physicians who need to decide whether ... Comment?
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Half a million TB deaths in people with HIV in 2008
... continues to be the major cause of death among people living with HIV globally. The figures update the Global Tuberculosis Control Report, issued in March 2009, which reported data to the end of 2007. The progress update provides information on ... Comment?
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HIV/AIDS Advocates Criticize Obamaa s Global AIDS Program
... The new plan places greater emphasis on preventing HIV, curbing mother-to-child transmission and treating tuberculosis, pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria. The Obama plan did not detail whether it would carry over the more controversial aspects of ... Comment?
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Seen that? - RFID to Fight Drug Counterfeiting
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... to pursue further. RFID Crystagram label is a combination of holographic image and 2.4 [...] Read More Tuberculosis Drug Candidate SQ109 Granted Orphan Drug Status at The Biotech Weblog The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European ... Comment?
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Case Western Reserve receives $19.7M federal contract
Case Western Reserve University has received a $19.7 million federal contract to become an international clinical trials site for the Tuberculosis Trials Consortium. Comment?
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36 mln people with TB cured, eight mln lives saved since 1995
Washington, Dec.9 : Some 36 million people have been cured of tuberculosis over the past 15 years through a rigorous approach to treatment endorsed by the World Health Organization . Comment?
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Armenian Parliament Endorses Troop Deployment To Afghanistan
... the heavy humanitarian toll wrought by a military operation to flush out a notorious ethnic Hutu militia. Tuberculosis treatment strategy saves millions of lives over last 15 years - UN study A change of strategy for treating patients suffering from ... Comment?
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Tuberculosis treatment strategy saves millions of lives over last 15 years - UN study
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A change of strategy for treating patients suffering from tuberculosis has cured 36 million people worldwide and saved up to 8 million lives over the last decade and a half, according to data released today by the United Nations World Health Organization . Comment?
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Tuberculosis treatment strategy saves millions of lives over last 15 years - " UN study
A change of strategy for treating patients suffering from tuberculosis has cured 36 million people worldwide and saved up to 8 million lives over the last decade and a half, according to data released today by the United Nations World Health Organization . Comment?
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John Crofton | Found TB treatment, 97
John Crofton, 97, a researcher renowned for his work on the treatment of tuberculosis, has died at his home in Scotland. Comment?
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Africa: TB Report - Millions Cured, But Too Many Still Dying
Some 36 million people have been cured of tuberculosis over the past 15 years through a rigorous approach to treatment, according to the World Health Organisation. Comment?
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Helped save 'many, many' lives from tuberculosis
John Crofton, a researcher renowned for his groundbreaking work on the treatment of tuberculosis, has died at his home in Scotland. Comment?
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