Respiratory Infections

  • A Clue to TB Awakening
    The factors instrumental in triggering latent tuberculosis (TB) infection to progress into active disease have long remained elusive to researchers. New insight into the mystery is provided by professor David Russell, speaking at the Society for General Microbiology's ...More
    March 29, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Infectious Disease Screening Not Performed at Many Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities
    Fewer than half of all substance abuse treatment facilities surveyed nationwide reported that they conduct on-site infectious disease screening, according to a new study sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  Rates of HIV, ...More
    March 25, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Johns Hopkins Team Finds New Way to Attack TB
    Suspecting that a particular protein in tuberculosis was likely to be vital to the bacteria's survival, Johns Hopkins scientists screened 175,000 small chemical compounds and identified a potent class of compounds that selectively slows down this protein's activity and, in ...More
    March 25, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Older People and Those with HIV are More Vulnerable to TB
    A study by the Barcelona Public Health Agency has revealed those sections of the population that are most vulnerable to tuberculosis. The research, published in the journal Respiratory Research, shows that the highest death rates from this disease are among those aged over ...More
    March 24, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Scientists in Hot Pursuit of First New Drug for Global Killer in 50 Years
    This World TB Day (March 24), researchers at Sydney's Centenary Institute announce they have made an exciting discovery that could lead to the first new drug for tuberculosis (TB) in almost 50 years. Dr. Nick West, associate faculty of the Mycobacterial group at Centenary, ...More
    March 24, 2010
    Posted in News
  • American Thoracic Society Honors World TB Day
    March 24, 2010, will mark World TB Day. On this day around the world, the public health and scientific community will raise public awareness about tuberculosis and the challenges that remain in controlling it globally, such controlling drug resistant TB and as the urgent ...More
    March 23, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Researchers Discover Two New Ways to Kill TB
    Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found two novel ways of killing the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB), a disease responsible for an estimated 2 million deaths each year. The findings, published in the March 21 online ...More
    March 21, 2010
    Posted in News
  • New TB Booster Shows Promise
    A booster shot appears to improve tuberculosis (TB) resistance in previously vaccinated adults, according to new research in South Africa. The study has been published online ahead of print publication in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and ...More
    March 17, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Federal Funds Support Health Departments but Leadership is Key
    By Amy Patterson NeubertThe surge of funds for bioterrorism preparedness over the past decade does not appear to be improving local public health resources in general, according to research from Purdue University. However, the funding increase to health departments does ...More
    March 9, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Combined Drug Therapy to Treat TB and HIV Significantly Improves Survival
    Initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) during tuberculosis therapy significantly reduced mortality rates by 56 percent in a randomized clinical trial of 642 patients co-infected with HIV and tuberculosis. The study, which provides further impetus for the integration of TB ...More
    February 25, 2010
    Posted in News
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