South Africa: Health in 2023 - a Deceptively Busy Year in Fewer Than 1 000 Words
[spotlight] 2023 was a busy year for healthcare in South Africa. There were several policy developments, landmark court cases, important pieces of legislation, and some changes in leadership. Yet, take a step back and not much seems to have changed. Shortages of healthcare workers persist, corruption is still rife, budgets tight, and our health governance crisis remains as acute as ever. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - December 11, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV-Aids and STDs Coronavirus Health and Medicine Noncommunicable Diseases South Africa Southern Africa Sustainable Development Tuberculosis Source Type: news
Notes from the Field: Undiagnosed Tuberculosis During Pregnancy Resulting in a Neonatal Death - United States, 2021
This report describes an infant death following a case of undiagnosed tuberculosis during pregnancy. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - December 7, 2023 Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Tuberculosis (TB) Tuberculosis Vaccine (BCG) Source Type: news
$20,000 monkeys: inside the booming illicit trade for lab animals
A lucrative underground trade risks undermining research, creating new pandemics and pushing a recently abundant species to the brinkIn 2019, Jonah Sacha, a researcher at Oregon Health and Science University, received a delivery of 20 monkeys from Mauritius. As part of his research into stem-cell transplants as an HIV treatment, he performs tests on long-tailed macaques.The captive-bred monkeys were legally imported using an approved vendor, and looked healthy. However, when Sacha tested them, one appeared to have latent tuberculosis (TB).Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 7, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Phoebe Weston Tags: Global development Illegal wildlife trade Environment Animals Endangered species Zoology Biology Conservation Source Type: news
NCDs Are Killing the Caribbean – PODCAST
By Marty LoganKATHMANDU, Dec 5 2023 (IPS) If I asked you to name the world’s most deadly diseases I’m guessing that you might say HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, cholera, maybe even COVID-19. In fact, those have all been major killers throughout human history – and some like TB continue to be so, especially in low-income countries.
But there is one group of diseases that is responsible for the deaths of more than two-thirds of people on earth. Let that sink in for moment. For every three people who die, two are killed by these illnesses, which are known as non-communicable diseases, or NCDs.
You probably know about many of...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - December 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Marty Logan Tags: Headlines Health Latin America & the Caribbean Multimedia Podcast TerraViva United Nations Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) Source Type: news
South Africa: From a Pig Farm in Zim to Star HIV Researcher - Prof LGB Reflects On Her Remarkable Journey
[spotlight] In a double-storey building emblazoned with the face of late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, inside Professor Linda-Gail Bekker's office a bookshelf is stacked with titles on general medicine, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB). Against the bookshelf, a mannequin leans dressed in a white doctor's coat, a stethoscope protruding from her pocket; on her head a sparkling tiara and a pink Venetian mask. Pinned to a wall is a picture of raised fists bearing the hashtag #youthinaction. Next to Bekker's computer, luminous (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - December 4, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV-Aids and STDs Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Sustainable Development Source Type: news
All-Oral Regimen Succeeds for Rifampin-Resistant TB All-Oral Regimen Succeeds for Rifampin-Resistant TB
A combination oral-only therapy of bedaquiline, pretomanid, and linezolid was significantly more effective than standard care in preventing unfavorable outcomes in patients with treatment-resistant tuberculosis.MDedge News (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - November 30, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Pulmonary Medicine News Source Type: news
South Africa: Antibiotic Slashes Risk of Drug-Resistant TB in Kids, Finds Major SA Study
[spotlight] For decades the standard way to prevent people who were exposed to tuberculosis (TB) from falling ill with the disease was to offer them a medicine called isoniazid, taken daily for six or more months. That changed in the last decade with the development of new preventive therapy regimens that are taken for four, three, or even just one month. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - November 28, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Children and Youth Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Sustainable Development Tuberculosis Source Type: news
Nigeria: Who Raises Alarm Over 'Rise of TB Infection' in Borno
[Premium Times] Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State said his state has lost about 50 per cent of its health institutions to insurgency and that many staff had been abducted, making health care delivery difficult. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - November 27, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Nigeria Tuberculosis West Africa Source Type: news
Nigeria: Kano Detects Highest Number of Tuberculosis Cases in Nigeria
[Leadership] The Kano State Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme (KNS-TBLCP) announced the detection and notification of 26,271 TB cases in 2022. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - November 24, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria Tuberculosis West Africa Source Type: news
South Africa, Colombia and others are fighting drugmakers over access to TB and HIV drugs
In a series of moves experts say signal a shift in how developing countries deal with pharmaceuticals, South Africa, Colombia and others have recently adopted a more combative approach towards drugmakers, pushing back on policies that deny treatment to millions of people with tuberculosis and HIV.#southafrica #colombia (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
South Africa: 'Someone Had to Do It', Says TB Activist On Time 100 List
[spotlight] Phumeza Tisile from Khayelitsha was 19 years old when she contracted multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). She battled the disease for nearly four years, then lost her hearing as a side effect from the cocktail of drugs used to treat the TB. At one stage, a doctor told her to visit a priest and prepare her soul for death. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - November 23, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Sustainable Development Tuberculosis Source Type: news
South Africa: 'Someone Had to Do It', Says SA TB Activist On Time 100 List
[spotlight] Phumeza Tisile from Khayelitsha was 19 years old when she contracted multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). She battled the disease for nearly four years, then lost her hearing as a side effect from the cocktail of drugs used to treat the TB. At one stage, a doctor told her to visit a priest and prepare her soul for death. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - November 23, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Sustainable Development Tuberculosis Source Type: news
South Africa: Country's Remarkable TB Clinical Trial Capacity
[spotlight] Several of the world's most important tuberculosis (TB) clinical trials of the last two decades were done in part or entirely in South Africa. These include several trials that helped establish the safety and efficacy of the medicines the World Health Organization (WHO) now recommends for the treatment of drug-resistant forms of TB. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - November 22, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Science and Biotechnology South Africa Southern Africa Sustainable Development Tuberculosis Source Type: news
Potential therapeutic target found to combat tuberculosis, a disrupted NAD(H) homeostasis
It has been uncertain how Mycobacterium tuberculosis deflects the immune response in humans, though evidence has pointed to host immunometabolism - the intrinsic link between metabolism in immune cells and their immune function. The pathogen M. tuberculosis is known to disrupt a metabolic pathway called glycolysis in infected myeloid cells, which include macrophages, through an unclear mechanism. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - November 20, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Lunit expands services into Saudi Arabia, secures $150M in funding
Lunit is expanding its services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia -- deploying its Lunit Insight CXR in five major hospitals -- and has secured $150 million in funding.Lunit Insight CXR is designed to detect common lung abnormalities, including lung cancer, tuberculosis, and pneumonia. The following hospitals, which in total have over 4,200 beds, will see the technology installed: National Guard Hospital Riyadh, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Security Forces Hospital, Al Takhassusi Hospital, and Al Moosa Specialist Hospital.This partnership builds on Lunit’s successful collaborations in Saudi Arabia, including its participat...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 17, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
