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...handful of anti-TB drugs. While they still make up only 5% of the total annual TB burden, these cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB are mushrooming, fueled by both the surge in H.I.V./AIDS and health systems that have ignored the threat of TB for too long...
...biggest threat, XDR TB, is currently resistant to the most potent classes of first- and second-line anti-TB drugs available - and there is no third line of pharmaceutical defense. While some promising candidates are being tested, even if they prove effective, they will not be available for at least five more years. There is also no easy way to detect drug-resistant strains of TB; current sputum-based screens can take anywhere from two weeks to two months, during which time doctors protectively place infected patients on first-line drugs too weak to battle the aggressive strain effectively rather...
...That realization is causing a rapid shift in economic policies by governments that are increasingly concerned about maintaining growth. A few months ago, the biggest threat appeared to be inflation - running at double-digit rates in countries including Indonesia, India and Vietnam - which led Asian central bankers to hike interest rates, hoping to cool off overheating economies and keep a lid on rising costs. But inflation worries have eased with recent sharp declines in the prices of oil and other commodities. Now policymakers are opening the money taps again. In September China's central bank lowered its key interest rate...
...question is: why? It's easy to understand that bailing out rich bankers doesn't feel super, but why, despite all the efforts of all the country's leaders to fill citizens with fear of an economic apocalypse, did they not see a failure to act as a serious threat to their livelihoods...
...peace agreement has picked up force in the past year after the two countries agreed to a series of closed-door discussions mediated by Turkey. Israel's advanced reconnaissance capabilities have almost eliminated the need for watch posts in the mountains and a peace treaty would remove the threat of a possible Syrian blockade of the water supply. As Livni, Olmert and Syria now appear willing to talk, the Golan Heights could be ready to change hands once more...