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News Scan for Jun 13, 2013

WHO issues guidance on use of new TB agent in multidrug-resistant cases

The World Health Organization (WHO) today issued interim policy guidance on the use of bedaquiline, a new tuberculosis (TB) drug, for treating multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB).

  • Drug for MDR-TB
  • Doxycycline shortage
  • Compounding pharmacy probe
  • Polio in Somalia and Kenya

News Scan for Jun 05, 2013

Chinese researchers note that severe H7N9 can progress rapidly

H7N9 avian flu infections can progress rapidly from the onset of symptoms to severe illness and death, according to a letter yesterday in the Annals of Internal Medicine from Chinese researchers on 22 deaths from the disease.

  • Severe H7N9 cases
  • Salmonella from baby poultry
  • MDR-TB cases
  • US school TB outbreak

NEWS SCAN: 2009 H1N1 in seals, dialysis infections, dengue travel warning, global TB deaths

May 15, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: Possible CJD treatment, public health funding, NCoV replication study

Apr 4, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: H5N1 in Egypt, H7N3 in Mexico, research funding, experts call for shift in TB battle

Mar 25, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: Novel coronavirus steps, new antimalarial studies, TB report card, Avastin-related recall, soda fountain contamination

Mar 21, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: MRSA treatment, TB in the Americas, antibiotic resistance in Ontario, mumps on Virginia campus

Mar 20, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: 'Feeder rodent' Salmonella prevention, cost of contaminated water supply, TB in Europe, Avastin recall

 

NEWS SCAN: TB funding plea, Navy ship pandemic outbreak, ground beef outbreak called over

Mar 18, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: XDR-TB detention, fungal infection total grows, West Nile in Greece

Mar 4, 2013

 

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