Read more tuberculosis stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/18345/tuberculosis.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 19:10:07 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/67422/who-sounds-alarm-on-homeopathy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe World Health Organization has issued a warning against homeopathic treatments for TB and other life-threatening illnesses, reports the BBC. The organization issued the alert after pressure from a group of young researchers who complained that homeopathy was being promoted in poor countries as a treatment for TB, infant diarrhea,...http://www.newser.com/story/67422/who-sounds-alarm-on-homeopathy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 21 Aug 2009 4:24:24 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63833/bruni-to-g8-dont-let-recession-kill-aids-funding.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCarla Bruni-Sarkozy gets in the op-ed game today, urging G8 leaders who are converging on L’Aquila, Italy, to continue the commitment their predecessors made 8 years ago to fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa. The earlier initiative helped the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria save some 4 million people,...http://www.newser.com/story/63833/bruni-to-g8-dont-let-recession-kill-aids-funding.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 08 Jul 2009 10:36:04 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60631/scientists-urge-who-to-slam-homeopathy-as-hiv-remedy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagConcerned about deaths tied to choice of treatment, British scientists are calling on the World Health Organization to speak out against homeopathy as a way to battle HIV, TB, malaria, influenza, and infant diarrhea. Clinics throughout Asia and sub-Saharan Africa offer to treat such diseases through homeopathy, though there is...http://www.newser.com/story/60631/scientists-urge-who-to-slam-homeopathy-as-hiv-remedy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 01 Jun 2009 8:51:04 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54082/s-africa-will-test-new-tb-vaccine.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA study starting next month will test a new vaccine's ability to prevent tuberculosis, Bloomberg reports. Researchers will give 2800 South African babies the new shot. The current vaccine has been around since 1921 and doesn’t keep infants from getting TB of the lungs, where the bacteria first sets in....http://www.newser.com/story/54082/s-africa-will-test-new-tb-vaccine.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Mar 2009 12:21:44 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/44620/not-scared-of-tb-you-should-be.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tag"Global complacency" could give rise to a terrifying, drug-resistant form of tuberculosis, writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times —and not in some remote outpost on the globe. There have been fewer than 100 cases of this XDR-TB in the past 15 years in the US, but with increasing...http://www.newser.com/story/44620/not-scared-of-tb-you-should-be.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 07 Dec 2008 13:32:50 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43459/mans-new-best-friend-rats-ferret-out-land-mines-tb.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMove over, Rover: Man has a new best friend that is helping to combat two scourges plaguing the developing world. Rats, normally reviled as filthy vermin, are sniffing out land mines and detecting tuberculosis bacteria. "Rats are usually considered pests or enemies of humanity,” said one Mozambican handler, but they’re...http://www.newser.com/story/43459/mans-new-best-friend-rats-ferret-out-land-mines-tb.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 23 Nov 2008 15:00:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/35963/tb-scare-unsettles-calif-maternity-ward.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNearly 1,000 babies born since March at a San Francisco hospital could have been exposed to tuberculosis, the Chronicle reports, by a maternity-ward worker with an active case. Kaiser Permanente says infection risk is very low, but testing and any treatment needed will be provided to 960 infants and...http://www.newser.com/story/35963/tb-scare-unsettles-calif-maternity-ward.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 27 Aug 2008 15:40:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/32411/for-tb-clues-researchers-turn-to-bones.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagScientists are analyzing bones found in the ancient city of Jericho, in what's now the West Bank, for clues to fighting tuberculosis. The German, Israeli, and Palestinian researchers hope the 6,000-year-old DNA they're studying will reveal how the disease evolves and how to combat it.http://www.newser.com/story/32411/for-tb-clues-researchers-turn-to-bones.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 14 Jul 2008 18:50:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/20127/super-tb-cases-hit-record-high.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDrug-resistant strains of tuberculosis are at the highest levels disease experts have ever seen, warns the World Health Organization. A survey of 81 countries found that levels of multi-drug resistant TB and even hardier, almost untreatable TB were much higher than expected, reports the BBC. Urgent action is needed to...http://www.newser.com/story/20127/super-tb-cases-hit-record-high.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 27 Feb 2008 13:43:00 CST