Tuberculosis

  • More Intensive Methods Needed to Identify TB in HIV-Prone Populations
    Identifying tuberculosis patients in Africa using passive methods is leaving many cases undiagnosed, according to researchers from the Netherlands, Kenya and the United States, who studied case detection methods in HIV-prone western Kenya. Tuberculosis (TB) occurs commonly ...More
    January 14, 2011
    Posted in News
  • IDRI Awarded Grant from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to Identify Candidates for Novel TB Drugs
    The Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) today announced it has received a multi-million dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for "Chemical genomics for the identification of targets and leads in tuberculosis." The purpose of the grant is to ...More
    January 14, 2011
    Posted in News
  • New Findings Show Vitamin D Accelerates Recovery From TB
    New research findings which show that vitamin D can speed up antibiotic treatment of tuberculosis (TB) have been revealed by scientists at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. The study -- which gives fresh insight into how vitamin D may affect the immune ...More
    January 6, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Study Finds Evidence of Increased Lung Cancer Risk Among TB Patients
    Although a clear association of tuberculosis with lung cancer remains to be established, a new study published in the January issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology provides compelling evidence of increased lung cancer risk among people with tuberculosis. Researchers at ...More
    December 31, 2010
    Posted in News
  • AMA Establishes New CPT Code for Use with the T-SPOT TB Test
    Oxford Immunotec, Inc. announces that a new and specific Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code has been established by the American Medical Association (AMA) for use with the T-SPOT®.TB test. The new Category I code, 86481, is described as "Tuberculosis test, cell ...More
    December 21, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Trained Rats Increased Tuberculosis Detection Rates by 44 Percent Over Microscopic Analysis
    Trained giant African rats increased positive TB detection rates by 44 percent over microscopy, the most commonly-used technique for diagnosing TB, according to a new study released in the December issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The study, ...More
    December 14, 2010
    Posted in News
  • New Tuberculosis Test to Have Worldwide Impact
    The driving force behind the rapid tuberculosis test that received World Health Organization endorsement this week is Dr. David Alland, chief of the Division of Infectious Disease at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School. The test, which uses DNA technology to diagnose ...More
    December 13, 2010
    Posted in News
  • WHO Endorses New Rapid TB Test
    The World Health Organization (WHO)'s endorsement of the rapid test, which is a fully automated NAAT (nucleic acid amplification test) follows 18 months of rigorous assessment of its field effectiveness in the early diagnosis of TB, as well as multidrug-resistant TB ...More
    December 8, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Blame the Environment: Why Vaccines May be Ineffective for Some People
    A new discovery may explain why a tuberculosis vaccine is not as effective for some people as anticipated, and potentially explains why other vaccines do not work as well for some as they do for others. In a research report presented in the December 2010 issue of the ...More
    December 1, 2010
    Posted in News
  • New Dry Powder Antibiotic Targets TB, Reduces Treatment Time
    New research being presented at the 2010 International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress (PSWC) in association with the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) snnual meeting and exposition will feature an inhalable dry ...More
    November 16, 2010
    Posted in News
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