Items tagged with Pediatrics
Biological fingerprint of tuberculosis meningitis discovered in children (post)
Children with tuberculosis meningitis - a brain and spinal cord infection that leads to disability and death -- have a biological fingerprint that can be used to assess the severity of the condition, help decide the best course of treatment, and provide clues for novel treatments, scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London and the University of Cape Town reveal.
Tanzania: Accurate test for TB in children on its way (post)
The detection of childhood tuberculosis (TB) has been a challenge in Tanzania, but research experts are now in a surge to come up with a better, rapid test for many children with TB to be identified and treated.
India: Drug-resistant TB higher among children than expected (post)
While detection of tuberculosis (TB) in children remains a challenge, it has now emerged that multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) is higher among children than expected. This has been described as a “worrying trend” by the Union Health Ministry.
TB in Mozambican children: Improved diagnosis increases concern (post)
About 9,500 children have been registered as suffering from tuberculosis in Mozambique in the last twelve months, compared to about 6,000 recorded in 2015.
Child contact management in high TB burden countries: A mixed-methods systematic review (post)
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Study: Screening malnourished children for TB in high-burden countries would boost detection (post)
Fewer than half of countries with high rates of tuberculosis incidence surveyed in a recent study have guidelines recommending screening for the disease among children receiving services for malnutrition, even though having those guidelines, increasing case-finding among children, linking them to care, and tracking their contacts could lead to inroads against the leading infectious disease killer, according to authors of a report on the findings. The study gathered and analyzed malnutrition management guidelines from 17 countries with high rates of tuberculosis.
TB killed an estimated 239,000 children in 2015, nearly all of them untreated, study finds (post)
Analysis shows TB may be sixth highest cause of under-five deaths; toll could be prevented with improved case-finding, diagnosis
CURE Pharmaceutical subsidiary, Oak Therapeutics, completes critical milestone in Phase 1 of NIH grant to develop oral dissolvable strip for TB (post)
OXNARD, Calif., Aug. 22, 2017 -- CURE Pharmaceutical (OTCQB:CURR), (“CURE”), a leading disruptive drug delivery technology company, today announced that its subsidiary company, Oak Therapeutics, has completed a critical milestone of its Phase I Small Business Innovative Research Contract (SBIR) from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/ NIAID) to develop a formulation for 300 mg of Isoniazid in a rapidly dissolving Oral Dissolvable Strip (ODS) as an anti-tuberculosis treatment option.
Short film on childhood TB in the USA (post)
Breathe In is a 20-minute short film that tells the story of Kelsey, a 5-year old from Houston, Texas, as she moves through treatment for tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease. It was produced by Ground Media in partnership with Johnson & Johnson as part of a larger Social Impact Campaign to raise awareness about TB across the globe. The film has been screened at several congressional briefings and health conferences, and is being integrated into a broad national impact campaign.
India's battle with TB continues to take lives, and treatment is still hard to manage (post)
When her 1-year old son became very sick, Mona Balani consulted multiple government and private doctors.
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