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New TB drugs offer cautious hope Mail Guardian South Africa Two new TB medicines are finally coming on to the scene. (Reuters) | More Coverage | Tuberculosis is a disease of the poor: today, 95% of global cases occur in low- and middle-income countries. Without a profit incentive, the impetus for companies to...
‘Justice’ is neither swift nor just for Prisoner A Business Day Related articles | Media missing the important issue in the race for numbers EDITORIAL: Risks in trial by Twitter Pistorius is a metaphor for our own national story LETTER: Harming justice in South Africa | WE CAN pontificate about whether Oscar Pist...
'Wrong' immune response aids TB BBC News Some bacteria, including tuberculosis, are able to invade because the body launches the 'wrong' immune response, say researchers. | Instead of fighting off tuberculosis, people with a severe infection produce a protein which attacks viruses...
Subtle shifts in diet affect genes reports new microbiome project study (Video) The Examiner Finally science recognizes how to best use subtle shifts in diet and components of the diet to affect the genes. The goal is to use these subtle shifts in diet by efficacy trials in personalized medicine, also associated with prophylactic or preventa...
Birmingham Chest Clinic marks its 80th year BBC News Birmingham Chest Clinic is marking its 80th year with an open day later. The purpose-built building on Great Charles Street, in the city centre, sees and treats about 12,000 patients in the region each year. It treats allergies and asthma, tuberculos...
Bovine TB control achieves less cattle and deer TB testing Scoop Friday, 1 March 2013, 10:14 am | Press Release: Animal Health Board | Media release | 1 March 2013 | Bovine TB control achieves less cattle and deer TB testing | The success of the TBfree New Zealand programme has led to more than 3750 cattle and dee...
Health to get extra to spend on TB diagnosis and HIV Business Day In this article | Companies and organisations: Department of Health | DESPITE the tight fiscal environment, the health sector will receive additional funding over the medium term to compensate for a drop in US donor support for HIV/AIDS programmes, e...
Pilot badger culls given go-ahead London Evening Standard Pilot culls in west Gloucestershire and west Somerset, which will see the killing of 70% of badgers in each area, have been authorised by Government agency Natural England after final licence conditions were met, with a third scheme in Dorset being p...
Dismay over Britain's plan to cull badgers Canberra Times An English badger. Photo: iStock | LONDON: Britain is set to cull up to 5000 badgers in a bid to combat tuberculosis in cattle - a move that has outraged animal welfare groups. | The culls will eradicate 70 per cent of the mammals in two areas of sou...
Dismay over Britain's plan to cull badgers Sydney Morning Herald LONDON: Britain is set to cull up to 5000 badgers in a bid to combat tuberculosis in cattle - a move that has outraged animal welfare groups. | The culls will eradicate 70 per cent of the mammals in two areas of south-west England - Gloucestershire a...
