Old ideas to innovate tuberculosis control: preventive treatment to achieve elimination

Old ideas to innovate tuberculosis control: preventive treatment to achieve elimination.

The introduction of new rapid diagnostic tools for tuberculosis (TB) and the promising TB drugs pipeline together with the development of a new World Health Organization Strategy post 2015 allows new discussions on how to direct TB control. The European Respiratory Society's European Forum for TB Innovation was created to stimulate discussion on how to best take advantage of old and new opportu...

Tuberculosis control is crucial to achieve the MDGs.

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Can the active component U.S. military achieve tuberculosis elimination?

Linezolid in drug-resistant tuberculosis: haste makes waste.

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Enabling Europe to innovate.

As activities that relate to innovation become increasingly global and open and so draw the private and public sectors into complex networks of partnerships, these activities also tend to concentrate where the ecosystem is most supportive. European public policy, which in recent years has emphasized the importance of research and development (R&D) in achieving competitive knowledge-based societ...