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

 

4 charged in synthetic drug overdoses in ND, Minn.

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Updated: Thursday, December 27 2012 11:16 AM EST2012-12-27 16:16:22 GMT. A woman who disappeared from the Village Marketplace Shopping Center in Chesterfield 16 years ago, the day after Christmas, remains missing. …. Obama nominates Kerry for …
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2012: The year we all got high

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If liberalizing marijuana laws becomes the next big social issue, we will have 2012 to thank for it, as this was the year that the issue finally moved from the fringes to the center of American politics. … Nearly two-thirds — 64 percent — of …
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