TB killed 1.3 million last year: WHO Dawn GENEVA: Tuberculosis claimed 1.3 million lives last year with drug-resistant forms of the infectious disease – the deadliest after Aids – a huge global concern, the WHO warned on Wednesday. | Worldwide efforts to rein in the killer airborne disease helped drive the toll down 100,000 from the pre...
Chubb appoints science A list The Australian CHIEF scientist Ian Chubb has pulled together an A-list group to advise him on the development strategies for improving science, technology maths and engineering education, workplace skills and literacy in the general community. | To continue reading...
Accountants' heaven: the G07 The Australian A MERGER of top research universities, creating the Group of Seven, would boost the bottom line by cutting costs. | To continue reading, please set up lite access. It's quick, easy and FREE. Quick Setup | Opinion | Brian Schmidt | 'Our foremost resea...
Global Fund needs U.S. pledge to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria The Miami Herald Deadly diseases | On Dec. 3, world leaders will meet in Washington, D.C., to decide whether we constrain three of the world’s deadliest diseases or allow them to continue spreading. | At this conference, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tubercul...
Florida Republicans Launch Fake Web Site Mocking State Democrats Huffington Post Something is amiss online: The 'Contribute' link at FloridaDems.com directs visitors to the Republican Party of Florida's fundraising page -- and for good reason. The state GOP bought the domain to launch a web site mocking Charlie Crist et al. | The...
Back to drawing board for TB test Independent online Paris - An on-the-spot sputum test for tuberculosis works better than the commonly-used, 125-year-old microscope method, but did not reduce illness in a southern African trial, a study said on Monday. | While the new test, dubbed Xpert MTB/RIF, diagn...
Saliva test may not hold key to TB elimination Independent online Paris - An on-the-spot sputum test for tuberculosis works better than the commonly-used, 125-year-old microscope method, but did not reduce illness in a southern African trial, a study said on Monday. | While the new test, dubbed Xpert MTB/RIF, diagn...
‘Malnutrition is rampant among rural TB patients’ The Times Of India NEW DELHI: Severe under-nutrition when diagnosed could mean at least two times higher odds of death in TB patients despite effective treatment, concluded a recent study which found shocking levels of malnutrition among rural TB patients. The study ad...
5 most common nocturnal problems The Times Of India Five common nocturnal problems and the warnings they may be signalling | For most of us, night is a time for rest and recuperation. But it's also the time when you might experience symptoms that are clues that things are not well. A problem with slee...
Pay heed to that persistent cough and cold The Times Of India The sudden rise in day temperatures, the unrelenting heat and the disappearance of the monsoon has resulted in a spate of health problems for the residents of Navi Mumbai. | While the common flu and viral fever are simple weather change health issues...
Multi-research unit to come up in KIMS The Times Of India HUBLI: Research activities in Karnatak Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), Hubli, will get the much-needed boost as a multi-disciplinary research unit (MRU) will soon come up on the KIMS premises. The central department of health research of the mi...
