Doctors Without Borders (MSF) released a new publication of DR-TB Drugs Under the Microscope, showing that just 2 percent out of the 150,000 people with drug-resistant tuberculosis have access to the new, better...
The most recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Vital Signs shows a mathematical model that is designed to demonstrate the rise in Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) and drug-resistant infections...
The disease detectives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named the top five global health threats they expect to tackle in 2014: 1. The emergence and spread of new microbes While it’s rare, CDC...
Scientists have raised alarm on growing Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency (AIDS) super-infection, when a person with HIV could acquire a second, new strain of HIV. A new Ugandan study...
Reports of tuberculosis (TB) cases with severe patterns of drug resistance are increasing, said experts who attended a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting in Geneva March 21-22, 2012. Participants stressed that the...