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Caroline Robinson: Curing TB in Europe is more about politics than science

October 10, 2012

Despite being considered as a disease of the past, tuberculosis (TB) kills seven people in Europe every hour and, worryingly, rates of multi drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) in the region […]

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Rebecca Coombes: Soaring rents but Ghana gets it right on vaccinations

April 27, 2012

It’s boom time in Ghana right now. The country’s economy soared by 14% in 2011 thanks to new oil receipts—earning it a listing as the world’s fastest growing economy. This […]

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Editors at large, Global healthdiarrhoea, Ghana, pneumonia, TB, vaccinations0 Comments

Grania Brigden: Time to make TB the enemy that can’t hide

April 20, 2012

As the Kony 2012 campaign continues to sear the image of Joseph Kony—head of the Ugandan guerilla group, the Lord’s Resistance Army— into the world’s consciousness, it’s worth remembering that […]

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MSFMSF, TB, Uganda1 Comment

Research highlights – 7 October 2011

October 7, 2011

“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research […]

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Uncategorizedanaesthesia, BCG, smoking, TB, Xanthelasmata0 Comments

Richard Smith: Managing hypertension in a South African township

March 10, 2011

South Africa suffers from a “quadruple burden” of disease—infectious disease, particularly AIDS and TB; trauma from road traffic injuries and violence; perinatal and maternal health problems; and non-communicable disease. I […]

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Richard SmithAIDS, hypertension, obesity, South Africa, TB2 Comments

Richard Smith on countering the “wicked problem” of the chronic disease pandemic

April 24, 2009

I spent two days last week in the seductive grandeur of Trinity College, Oxford, fretting about the global pandemic of chronic disease, but I left feeling optimistic—despite the pandemic raging […]

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Richard SmithAIDS, Centre for Global Development, chronic disease, oxford health alliance, polypill, TB, The North Karelia Project, world health assembly6 Comments

Philipp du Cros dreams of a rapid point of care test for tuberculosis

March 24, 2009

In my work with Médecins Sans Frontières I constantly face dilemmas when trying to decide whether a patient has tuberculosis or not. In the countries where we work, diagnosis for […]

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Guest writers, MSFTB, WHO2 Comments

Richard Feinmann on volunteering after retirement

March 17, 2009

What to do when you are a sexagenarian physician who has retired from hospital practice with 40 years in the NHS under your belt and golf/Sudoku not really appealing? Well, […]

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Guest writersAIDS, developiong countries, HIV, retirment, TB, VSO9 Comments

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