Tuberculosis

What Can't Be Cut

Josh Ruxin | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, 2008 Presidential Race, Foreign Aid, Usaid, Poverty, Pepfar, US Foreign Aid, Global Poor, Tuberculosis, Recession, HIV/AIDS, Foreign Loans, Financial Crisis, Fighting Malaria, The ONE Campaign, Politics News
Josh Ruxin

It's time to send a clear signal to the Obama and McCain camps that issues of the poor world-wide are not disposable because of market downturns.

Read Post

Raising Awareness About TB

James Nachtwey | Posted 10.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Tb, Poor, Poverty, Tuberculosis, Health, Disease, Living News
James Nachtwey

Despite the fact that tuberculosis afflicts a huge number of people - it's not on the radar screen in terms of public awareness.

Read Post

The Good Doctor Prescribes Health Care for the World's Poor

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Developing World, Paul Farmer, Haiti, Marc Kielburger, Universal Health Care, Tuberculosis, Craig Kielburger, Home News

We met Paul Farmer sitting on the steps of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford. He is a very busy man. But today, he spent the afternoon talking with u...

Read Post

The Greatest Lie on Earth

Leslie Griffith | Posted 07.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Ringling Circus, Elephants, Health, Elephants Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis, Circus, Living News
Leslie Griffith

Every animal on the blue unit now performing in LA, then heading to San Diego and on to the San Francisco Bay area has either tested positive for tuberculosis, or has had a full blown case of M-TB.

Read Post

The Scourge of the IMF

Robert Weissman | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Imf, Tuberculosis, Health, Market Fundamentalism, Business News
Robert Weissman

When countries entered IMF programs, TB rates went up. When the programs ended and countries escaped from IMF influence, TB rates went down.

Read Post

Circus Elephants with Tuberculosis are a Real Threat to People

Leslie Griffith | Posted 04.24.2008 | Living

Read More: M-Tuberculosis, Cdc, Elephants, Health, Don Francis, Tuberculosis, Circus, Ringling Brothers, Living News
Leslie Griffith

After two years of researching the transference of m-tuberculosis from Asian elephants to humans, I think circus-goers are in very real danger.

Read Post

CDC Under Siege

Deirdre Imus | Posted 04.02.2008 | Living

Read More: Cdc, Andrew Speaker Tuberculosis, Public Health, Tb, Andrew Speaker, David Kirby, Hannah Poling Autism, Hannah Poling, Tuberculosis, Autism Vaccine Mercury, Gerberding, Health, CDC Cancer, Autism, Centers for Disease Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Autism Vaccines, Andrew Speaker Tb, Living News
Deirdre Imus

Hardly a month passes without another news report questioning the credibility, scientific independence, and integrity of the nation's premier health agency.

Read Post

Battling Tuberculosis In North Korea

The Washington Post | Stephen Glain | Posted 03.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Stephen Linton Tuberculosis North Korea, The Giving Life, Tuberculosis North Korea, Tuberculosis, Stephen Linton, Living News

South Korean sources suggest that tuberculosis has affected as much as 5 percent of North Korea's population of 23 million. Linton estimates the Eugen...

Read Whole Story

Idiocracy: Why the Media Is Not Protecting the People

Leslie Griffith | Posted 10.23.2007 | Living

Read More: Barnum & Bailey, Drug Resistant TB, Elephants TB, Ringling Brothers, Kenneth Feld, Elephants Tuberculosis, Tb, Tuberculosis, Living News
Leslie Griffith

Evidence indicates that for the last 14 years TB positive and TB infected elephants have been traveling the country and performing in closed arenas full of little kids.

Read Post