Worcester student tests positive for tuberculosis; Nurses to give free exams.
Byline: Jacqueline Reis WORCESTER - Public health nurses will offer free tuberculosis tests at Burncoat High School because a student there has been diagnosed with the treatable infection. The boy being treated is not contagious and is back in school, according to Dr. Leonard J....

Sequella Receives SBIR Funding Grant from the NIH for Further Development of Tuberculosis Drug SQ609.
ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Sequella, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on diseases of epidemic potential, today announced the receipt of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), to fund...

FROM THE REGION.
COLUMN: FROM THE REGION Worcester No new active TB cases at Burncoat High School WORCESTER - No new cases of active tuberculosis have been found at Burncoat High School, although the last round of test results is not due to come in until...

ELLE, Fashion has its Heart in the Right Place!
In a publishing 'first' 30 Editions of Elle magazine team up with Bono, Gisele Bundchen and Scarlett Johansson in the fight against AIDS in Africa. NEW YORK, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- In just over 2 years, (PRODUCT)RED(TM) partners and events have generated over 120 million USD to...

U.S. Preventive Medicine Recommends Changing CDC Name to Centers for Disease Prevention and Control.
DALLAS, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The same type of change that has come to Washington is now needed in health care, according to U.S. Preventive Medicine, the leader in prevention. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080506/NETU129LOGO ) "As the new administration brings new faces and policies to our capital,...

The Ensign Group Expands into Colorado.
DENVER, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Ensign Group, Inc. , announced today that it has expanded into Colorado by acquiring four long-term care facilities in the Denver metropolitan area. The facilities include Littleton Manor, a 35-bed skilled nursing facility in Littleton, Arvada Nursing Center, a 54-bed skilled nursing facility...

The year in queer.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] JANUARY 5 Threats to attack Paris's Eiffel Tower and the city's gay mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, are posted on a website catering to Islamic fundamentalists. The mayor--who was stabbed in a 2002 antigay attack--later announces his interest in running for president of France. JANUARY...

Closing the gaps in the U.S. and international quarantine systems: legal implications of the 2007 tuberculosis scare.
I. EVOLVING INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL A. The Speaker Incident B. The Development of Tuberculosis: Ancient Roots and Deadly New Strains II. CURRENT LAW A. The U.S. Legal Mechanisms for Response 1. State Law 2. Federal Law B. International Law Mechanisms for Response III. POSSIBLE CHANGES TO DOMESTIC...

Emergent BioSolutions and Oxford Partner to Develop an Advanced Tuberculosis Vaccine.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-29 July 2008-Emergent BioSolutions and Oxford Partner to Develop an Advanced Tuberculosis Vaccine(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com The University of Oxford and Emergent BioSolutions announced that they have formed a joint venture, The Oxford-Emergent Tuberculosis Consortium, to further develop MVA85A, the world's most clinically...

Prevalence of multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
Background & objectives: Multi-drug resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates may be transmitted within communities due to dense population and poor hygienic conditions. For proper management and control of MDR-TB, understanding drug susceptibility pattern of M. tuberculosis isolates and their transmission pattern in every health care setting are essential. In...