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...average day at his Clinique Bon Saveur in Haiti involves treating desperately sick adults and children, “most of them TB or HIV patients with a bit of malaria thrown in,” he says. In the brief moments between patients, Farmer will confer with political leaders about grave issues of public health...
...China's inability to stem tuberculosis cases like Shi's bodes ill for its SARS struggle. Like SARS, TB is a contagious respiratory disease whose spread can be contained through vigilant monitoring of its victims. Though TB has been all but eliminated in developed countries, it still afflicts 1.5 million mostly rural Chinese each year, an infection rate second only to India's. The World Bank recently concluded a decade-long project providing free TB treatment in 13 mainland provinces. It was a stunning success?incidence of the disease fell by 36%. But provincial governments ultimately treated the project...
...work or not," says Nathan Ford of Doctors Without Borders, a group pushing hard to loosen restrictions on generics. So far, it isn't working. The U.S. pharmaceutical industry, with American sales of $192 billion last year, is keen to limit imported generic drugs to those treating malaria, TB and aids, fearing a broader agreement could create a generic market in lucrative "lifestyle drugs" like Viagra. Worse, they fear generics could migrate back to countries where patents are protected. Of course, developing countries would have more money to pay for drugs if they could sell their produce on a world...
...Senior TB Nick Palazzo, who had just 12 carries Saturday and was only the game’s fourth-leading rusher per carry. Three of his rushes went for touchdowns, though, moving him into the national top-10 in scoring with...
Physicians don't know much about this mysterious illness. Like TB, it is triggered by a group of germs called mycobacteria. Unlike TB, it is not contagious, though it seems to thrive in hot, humid states in the U.S. Indeed, a recent survey conducted by health authorities in Florida found that hospitals in the region discharged far more patients with non-TB mycobacterial (or, as doctors call it, NTM) infections than with TB. And once you have NTM, it's tough to get rid of. "It takes three times as long to treat as conventional TB and relapses are common...