CDC: Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is allowing an additional 30 days for comments on a proposed information collection project titled "Formative Research and Tool Development." This information collection request is designed to allow CDC's National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) to conduct formative research information collection activities used to inform many aspects of surveillance, communications, health promotion, and research project development for NCHHSTP's four priority diseases: HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases/infections (STD/STI), viral hepatitis, tube...
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - February 9, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
FDA clears Qure.ai's tuberculosis software
Medical imaging AI company Qure.ai has secured breakthrough device designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) for its tuberculosis software, qSpot-TB. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 5, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: UZ Launches Research Into Drug-Resistant TB
[The Herald] The University of Zimbabwe Clinical Trials Research Centre (UZ-CTRC) has launched a research programme for a treatment regimen that can protect families of people with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - February 1, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Southern Africa Tuberculosis Zimbabwe Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Survivors Lead Fight Against TB
[The Herald] TUBERCULOSIS survivors have taken an active role in the identification of cases in their communities as part of efforts to improve the national response to the disease. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 30, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Southern Africa Tuberculosis Zimbabwe Source Type: news
Kenya: Health Ministry Launches Program to Help Fight TB By 2030
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Ministry of Health has launched a program to help fight Tuberculosis by 90 percent by 2030. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - January 23, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Kenya Tuberculosis Source Type: news
ChatGPT shows potential for assisting in bone tumor diagnosis
ChatGPT shows potential in helping radiologists to identify malignant bone tumors based on CT imaging findings in radiology reports, according to a study published January 22 in the Journal of Bone Oncology.
A team led by Fan Yang, MD, of Capital Medical University in Beijing reported that a few-shot trained ChatGPT model (that is, a model trained to make accurate predictions with only a small number of examples) showed 87% accuracy and 99% sensitivity for flagging malignant bone tumors.
"Our findings highlight the potential of ChatGPT in the diagnosis of benign and malignant bone tumors, offering advantages like enhance...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - January 23, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: CT Source Type: news
HEALTH NOTES: Researchers testing inhaled tuberculosis vaccine as cases rise
HEALTH NOTES: Experts are searching for a more effective tuberculosis (TB) vaccine amid rising levels of infections. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 20, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Technology Transfer Critical to Revolutionizing Africa ’s Pharma Industry
BioNTainers, facilities equipped to manufacture a range of mRNA-based vaccines have been inaugurated in Rwanda in December 2023. Credit: Aimable Twahirwa/IPSBy Aimable TwahirwaKIGALI, Jan 8 2024 (IPS) An agreement signed between the Rwandan government and the Africa Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation (APTF) gives impetus to Africa’s domestic industry with the hope of helping the continent tackle vaccine inequity and fill the critical gap in vaccine manufacturing.
The agreement to operationalize the foundation was signed in Kigali, Rwanda, in late 2023.
What is important, according to stakeholders, is to focus efforts o...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Aimable Twahirwa Tags: Africa COVID-19 Development & Aid Featured Headlines Health Human Rights Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Rwanda Source Type: news
Second Nationwide Tuberculosis Outbreak Caused by Bone Allografts Containing Live Cells - United States, 2023
This report describes an investigation of a tuberculosis outbreak among bone allograft recipients. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - January 4, 2024 Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Outbreaks Tuberculosis (TB) Source Type: news
Another Outbreak of TB Linked to Contaminated Bone Grafts
(MedPage Today) -- Contaminated bone allograft material from a single manufacturer led to five diagnosed cases of tuberculosis (TB) and two deaths so far, according to CDC data.
In July, clinicians in two different states rapidly diagnosed and... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 4, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Malawi: Congestion Spreading TB in Malawi Prisons
[Nyasa Times] Malawi Prison Services (MPS) has cited congestion as the major contributing factor in the spread of tuberculosis (TB) in the country's prisons. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - January 3, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Legal and Judicial Affairs Malawi Southern Africa Tuberculosis Source Type: news
ChatGPT perpetuates racial and gender biases
ChatGPT-4 consistently produces clinical vignettes that stereotype certain races, ethnicities, and genders, according to a study published in the January issue of The Lancet: Digital Health.The findings highlight an urgent need for comprehensive and transparent bias assessments of LLM tools such as GPT-4 before they are integrated into clinical care, wrote a team led by Travis Zack, PhD, of the University of California, San Francisco.“Our results underscore the need for caution in deployment of LLMs for clinical applications to ensure LLMs do not further exacerbate health inequities,” the group wrote.Large language mod...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - January 2, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Radiology Education Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news
South Africa: Breakthrough Raspberry TB Meds Available for Children
[SciDev.Net] Nairobi -- A new child-friendly formulation of rifapentine, approved for TB prevention in children, promises easier access and improved treatment outcomes. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 27, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Children and Youth Health and Medicine Innovation Science and Biotechnology South Africa Southern Africa Sustainable Development Tuberculosis Source Type: news
South Africa: Analysis - SA Close to Meeting TB Research Funding Targets, but Most Countries Falling Short
[spotlight] South Africa is one of only six countries to ever meet its "fair share target" for funding tuberculosis (TB) research, according to a Treatment Action Group (TAG) report published this week. In absolute terms however, South Africa's contribution is small change compared to investments into TB research made by the top two contributors, the United States government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - December 27, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Governance Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Sustainable Development Tuberculosis Source Type: news
