Panel Discussion: Totally Drug Resistant TB Is Here: Are We Too Late? || HGHI


 

Panel Discussion: Totally Drug Resistant TB is here: Are we too late? || HGHI – Barry Bloom, Ph.D., Harvard School of Public Health (Chair); Sarah Fortune, MD, Harvard School of Public Health; Jeremy Greene, MD, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School; Bob Horsburgh, Ph.D., Boston University; Khisimuzi Mdluli, Ph.D., TB Alliance; Scott Podolsky, MD, Harvard Medical School; Zarir Udwadia, MD, Hunduja National Hospital, Mumbai; and Rob Warren, Ph.D., Stellenbosch University, Cape Town A topical discussion to answer how we have arrived at TDR; to discuss new drugs in the pipeline; to consider the ethical and policy considerations surrounding patient treatment; to predict the spread of TDR, and to mobilize our community to devise a strategy to cure people infected with TDR TB. Sixth Annual New England Tuberculosis Symposium Harvard Global Health Institute June 28th, 2012 The Broad Institute 7 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA

 

School notebook

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The Wellesley Teen Center next dance and activities night for middle school-aged students will be a Mardi Gras-themed dance on Saturday, Feb. 2 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at …. A simple, pain and drug free procedure pinpoints discordant rhythms in a child's …
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Breast cancer caught in the act of spreading

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Daniel Haber and Shyamala Maheswaran, both at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston, and their colleagues, therefore developed a new suite of markers to identify tumour cells circulating in the blood. They then tracked these cells, …
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Fungal meningitis outbreak: a doctor responds to our series

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Dr. Andriese works at Neuromuscular & Rehabilitation Associates of Northern Michigan, which received and administered some of the contaminated drugs that led to this outbreak. Below, we've included his email, and we're posting it here (with his …
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