http://blog.newtbdrugs.org Working Towards a Faster Cure for Tuberculosis Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:16:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/09/interview-with-dr-lee-reichman-part-three/ http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/09/interview-with-dr-lee-reichman-part-three/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:15:32 +0000 Working Group http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/?p=1538 This is part three of our interview with Lee B. Reichman, MD, MPH, Founding Executive Director of the New Jersey Medical School Global Tuberculosis Institute, and Professor of Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the New Jersey Medical School, in Newark, New Jersey.]]> http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/09/interview-with-dr-lee-reichman-part-three/feed/ 0 http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/08/interview-with-dr-lee-reichman-%e2%80%93-part-two/ http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/08/interview-with-dr-lee-reichman-%e2%80%93-part-two/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:01:50 +0000 Working Group http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/?p=1531 This is part two of our interview with Lee B. Reichman, MD, MPH, Founding Executive Director of the New Jersey Medical School Global Tuberculosis Institute, and Professor of Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the New Jersey Medical School, in Newark, New Jersey.]]> http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/08/interview-with-dr-lee-reichman-%e2%80%93-part-two/feed/ 1 http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/08/viewpoint-we-need-new-tb-drugs-part-two/ http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/08/viewpoint-we-need-new-tb-drugs-part-two/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:00:46 +0000 Cameron Kaiser http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/?p=1445 Last week, Dr. Kaiser shared his thoughts and perspectives as a medical doctor on the current state of TB drug regimens. This week he shares specific ideas on how TB drug R&D could be improved. ]]> http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/08/viewpoint-we-need-new-tb-drugs-part-two/feed/ 0 http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/08/viewpoint-we-need-new-tb-drugs-part-one/ http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/08/viewpoint-we-need-new-tb-drugs-part-one/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:46:00 +0000 Cameron Kaiser http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/?p=1431 Antibiotics are, to the typical patient, always the quick fix. Despite our best attempts to convince them that their viral bronchitis will get better without that course of amoxicillin, anyone who has worked a primary care clinic knows the pressure to throw antibiotics at the problem, even when we ourselves know it's not the answer, because our patients perceive it as the fast track to health. A couple weeks, they reason, and the infection is over. Normalcy ought to resume. Then you tell them they have tuberculosis, and "normalcy" is at least six months away, if everything goes according to plan. And tuberculosis is a wily enough contender to make sure everything won't.]]> http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/08/viewpoint-we-need-new-tb-drugs-part-one/feed/ 1 http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/07/interview-with-dr-lee-reichman/ http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/07/interview-with-dr-lee-reichman/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:16:25 +0000 Working Group http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/?p=1340 This is part one of our interview with Lee B. Reichman, MD, MPH, Founding Executive Director of the New Jersey Medical School Global Tuberculosis Institute, and Professor of Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the New Jersey Medical School, in Newark, New Jersey.]]> http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/07/interview-with-dr-lee-reichman/feed/ 2 http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/06/stop-tb-partnership-craig-david-video-series-3/ http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/06/stop-tb-partnership-craig-david-video-series-3/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:00:11 +0000 Working Group http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/?p=1124 In a newly released clip – the third in a series of videos shot in South Africa during his first country visit as a Goodwill Ambassador against Tuberculosis – British R&B star Craig David talks with Dr Sizulu Moyo, a tuberculosis researcher at Stellenbosch University.]]> http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/06/stop-tb-partnership-craig-david-video-series-3/feed/ 0 http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/06/stop-tb-partnership-craig-david-video-series-2/ http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/06/stop-tb-partnership-craig-david-video-series-2/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:09:52 +0000 Working Group http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/?p=1029 The Stop TB Partnership has produced a series of videos featuring Goodwill Ambassador Craig David. This is #2 in a series.]]> http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/06/stop-tb-partnership-craig-david-video-series-2/feed/ 0 http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/06/an-interview-with-martino-laurenzi-m-d-mph/ http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/06/an-interview-with-martino-laurenzi-m-d-mph/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:00:32 +0000 Working Group http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/?p=1002 Dr. Martino Laurenzi, an expert in clinical development and community health, is a Clinical Research Scientist at the TB Alliance, where his responsibilities include the oversight of clinical trials. Dr. Laurenzi has long been involved in public health research; the Gubbio Study, which he started in 1982 in the Italian town for which it is named, is one of the longest standing population-based epidemiological studies for the screening of cardiovascular risk factors.]]> http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/06/an-interview-with-martino-laurenzi-m-d-mph/feed/ 0 http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/05/an-interview-with-michael-d-iseman-m-d/ http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/05/an-interview-with-michael-d-iseman-m-d/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 13:00:16 +0000 Working Group http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/?p=975 Dr. Michael D. Iseman is a Professor of Medicine in the Divisions of Pulmonary Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. This video was recorded on November 13, 2009 at Johns Hopkins University.]]> http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/05/an-interview-with-michael-d-iseman-m-d/feed/ 0 http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/05/dr-michele-miller-on-tb-in-wildlife-part-three-of-three/ http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/05/dr-michele-miller-on-tb-in-wildlife-part-three-of-three/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 13:00:26 +0000 Working Group http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/?p=846 TB R&D Spotlight Interview with Dr. Michele Miller: In part three of our talk with Dr. Michele Miller, the Chief Veterinary Officer and Director of the Center for Conservation Medicine at the Palm Beach Zoo, an expert on tuberculosis in wildlife populations, we discuss the state of funding to stop TB in wild animals.]]> http://blog.newtbdrugs.org/2010/05/dr-michele-miller-on-tb-in-wildlife-part-three-of-three/feed/ 0