| News |
| 20/07/10…Race Against TB Seminar |
| 100 leaders from the NHS, local government and the third sector were recently brought together by TB Alert and Race for Health to produce a set of best practice recommendations to tackle the health inequalities that lie at the heart of the rising incidence of TB. Read more... |
| 19/05/10…Lancet publishes a series on TB |
| The Lancet Medical Journal today published a series on TB. If you are interested, you can register free to access the articles online. |
| 21/04/10…New WHO TB guidelines |
| The new guidelines contain a number of important new recommendations - click here for more info and details on how to obtain the guidelines. |
| 05/04/10…World TB Day PQ's on TB |
| On World TB Day MPs raised ten parliamentary questions about TB. Read their questions and the answers given here |
| 24/04/10…ARCHIVE TB Project |
| On World TB Day ARCHIVE Institute will launch its Happy Healthy Housing initiative concerning tuberculosis and housing in the London Borough of Brent. Read more... |
| 23/03/10…DFID funds TB vaccine research |
The Department for International Development (DFID) has pledged to provide £8 million to Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation over five years. Read more...
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| 16/03/10…HPA 2009 TB figs - 5.5% increase |
| Provisional figures released today by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) show that cases of tuberculosis (TB) in the UK have increased by 5.5%, from 8,679 reported in 2008 to 9,153 in 2009. Read more... |
| 03/03/10…The UN's TB 'citizen solution' |
| The United Nations have launched a campaign called MassiveGood, where every traveller around the world will be asked to donate 2 dollars to a fund to fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Read more about the article featured in Earth Times here. |
| 25/01/10…Professor Wallace Fox |
| We are sad to announce the death of Professor Wallace Fox on Friday 22nd January after a long illness. Read more... |
| 07/01/10…TB rapper a hit on Youtube |
| Christian Van Vuuren has TB, and recently spent 3 weeks quarantined in an Australian hospital. He made a rap video from his hospital bed. Watch Christian on Youtube. |
| 05/01/10…Radio 4 Case Notes features TB |
| Dr Mark Porter talks about the treatment of TB in Leeds. Check out the programme archive to listen again to this episodeand hear TB Alert TBAG member Natalie talk about her experiences. |
| 04/12/09…Second TB audit of English PCTs |
| The APPG on Global TB, British Thoracic Society, Royal College of Nursing and TB Alert today launched the results of the second national audit of English PCTs. The survey sought to assess local priority of TB and looked at the level of progress since the first survey in 2007. To find out more and to read the full report click here... |
| 04/11/09…Sir John Crofton |
| We are sad to announce that our founder and Honorary President Sir John Crofton passed away yesterday (Nov 3). Read more |
| 19/10/09…New Medical information website |
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Oxford Immunotec, the diagnostics company have launched a new website for healthcare workers involved in the management of TB www.learnTB.com
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| 17/09/09…Revolutionary discovery to treat TB |
| Researchers in the US have discovered a way to disable a key protein complex in the TB bacterium and kill the organism - raising the possibility of new TB drugs. Click here for the science ... |
| 28/08/09…Smoking increases TB risk |
| Smokers are twice as likely to develop active TB compared to people who have never smoked, according to the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care. Read more... |
| 24/08/09…Homeopathy not a cure, says WHO |
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People with conditions such as TB, HIV and malaria should not rely on homeopathic treatments, the World Health Organization has warned. Read more...
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