Terrible TB: tuberculosis is a quiet threat.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Do you recall the case of the man who got in trouble last year for traveling by airplane because he had drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB)? "I kind of remember hearing about him," says Joann C., a 16-year-old from Norwalk, Conn. "I know what TB is, but...

The scourge of tuberculosis.
The Scourge of Tuberculosis Directions: Read "Terrible TB" (page 19). Answer the questions in Part 1 by circling T for true or F for false. In Part 2, write your answer on the lines provided. Part 1 1. If infected with tuberculosis (TB), teens are...

Test international adoptees for tuberculosis.
Twenty-one percent of internationally adopted children demonstrated evidence of latent tuberculosis infection on their first tuberculin skin test, results from a single-center study showed. Moreover, the rate of latent TB infection in those who were retested at least 3 months after a second tuberculin skin test (TST)...

WHO bares 2 initiatives to fight tuberculosis.
In a statement, WHO said these new initiatives consist of two projects. The first project is a molecular method to diagnose MDR-TB that was formerly used exclusively in research settings. The project was made possible through a $ 26.1-million grant from UNITAID, an attached agency of the WHO that...

Despite consensus and mounting evidence, challenges to improved HIV-reproductive health linkages remain.
In line with President Bush's personal commitment, Congress recently voted to reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). In addition to calling for a major increase in U.S. spending on international AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria activities, the new legislation supports linkages--either directly or by referral--with a long...

TB screening and immigrants.
Although it is not feasible to screen all foreign-born entrants to the United States for latent tuberculosis infection, it would be worthwhile to target those at highest risk: those who have immigrated in the past 2 years and those who are from sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, reported Dr....

Heart diseases and strokes.
While there is a general tendency to associate developing countries with the incidence of infectious diseases such as diarrhea, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, an increasing number of countries report non-communicable diseases such as heart ailments and stroke as the chief causes of deaths in their areas. Heart...

TB Alliance Names Its First Chief Administrative Officer.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-2 September 2008-TB Alliance Names Its First Chief Administrative Officer(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com The Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance), a not-for-profit product development partnership accelerating the discovery and development of new drugs to fight tuberculosis (TB), announced the appointment of...

PolyMedix Presents New Data on Its Novel Antibiotic Compounds.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-1 October 2008-PolyMedix Presents New Data on Its Novel Antibiotic Compounds(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Pre-clinical in vitro data describing the activity of a variety of PolyMedix's novel small molecule defensin mimetic antibiotic compounds against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria which causes tuberculosis, were presented....

Next-generation antibiotics.
The treat of antibiotic resistance is nothing to scoff at: The World Health Organization predicts that some diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, and pneumonia, could have "no effective therapies within the next 10 years." Indeed, 70 percent of hospital-acquired bacterial infections in the United States--which kill 90,000 Americans a year--are...