0 New trials a game-changer for latent TB treatment
Clinical trial data has proved a novel, short therapy more effective and safe for the treatment of latent tuberculosis than the standard therapy in both adults and children.
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0 UK committee recommends HPV vaccinations for adolescent boys
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has stated that a gender-neutral vaccine program would be cost effective in the UK and would protect boys against HPV infection and associated diseases.
0 Calls for Ebola survivors to receive more specialist support
Following a study that shed new light on the psychiatric and neurological problems suffered by Ebola survivors, researchers are calling for more specialist support for this population.
0 Screening and vaccination of migrants in Europe – an interview with Sally Hargreaves
In this interview Sally, a Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London’s Faculty of Medicine (London, UK), speaks about her work on issues relating to the vaccination and screening of migrants, in addition to discussing some of the wider issues facing migrant’s access to healthcare in Europe.
0 Investigating the burden of infectious diseases in a refugee camp – an interview with Marta Tilli
This month has seen us focus on travel and migration – a theme of increasing importance in the modern-day world. In light of this we caught up with Marta Tilli on her research investigating the burden of infectious diseases in the Moria refugee camp (Levos, Greece).
0 ECCMID18: 7 days of antibiotics could be as good as 14 days for Gram-negative bacteremia
A study presented at ECCMID has suggested patient outcomes for Gram-negative bacteremia are similar in the case of 7 days and 14 days of antibiotic treatment, suggesting a shorter course length could be beneficial.
0 ECCMID18: Will infection prevention practices be improved by a new visual tool?
A new color-coded visual tool is set to make it easier for healthcare workers to measure how well a hospital complies with guidelines.
0 World Health Day 2018
This World Health Day the WHO is calling for robust steps towards universal healthcare with actions on a policy and an individual level. Discover more about some of the issues in global health.
0 N-TB – first-of-kind app launched for nutritional assessment and counselling of tuberculosis patients
World TB Day has seen the launch of the N-TB app, a first-of-kind tool to help healthcare providers in the nutritional assessment and counselling of adult patients with tuberculosis.
0 #TalkTB – Catch up on the Twitter chat for World TB Day
We look at some of the highlights of our Twitter chat (#TalkTB), where we questioned Madhukar Pai, Nandita Venkatesan and Jacob Creswell about all things tuberculosis – from diagnosis to social stigma.
