TB vaccine research update - Part 2
In this second blog of a series on the progress in TB vaccine research, we going to take a walk through the forest of this research,...
“The world will not end the TB epidemic without new vaccines.” The TB Vaccine Pipeline Report, Part 1
So states the summary of New York’s Treatment Action Group’s recent analysis of the current pipeline of new TB vaccines. Written by Mike...
If ‘asymptomatic TB’ really 'substantively' provokes TB transmission...
In the last blogs we discussed some general content in the WHO’s most recent TB Report, and most particularly we identified one...
‘Asymptomatic TB’ in the latest Global TB Report – is it something needing really serious new attention, or is it just a red herring?
Tucked away (in full sight) within the most recent Global TB Report is a section on ‘asymptomatic TB’. Asymptomatic TB, as far as we are...
The 2024 Global TB Report – much the same story, but with one startling addition
The WHO’s annual TB Report was published earlier this month, but this year’s has had little fanfare and almost no media attention....
Happy ‘Duan Wu’ (Dragon Boat) day – time to scythe your mugwort!
It's time to sharpen your scythe and cut some mugwort because today is Duan Wu Jie or (more popularly globally today) the ‘Dragon Boat...
It’s World Moxa Day today!
Moxafrica is pleased to share some news on World Moxa Day. First of all, things are progressing with the project in Durban, South Africa,...
“You get a big company to take [a new TB vaccine} forward?... BULLSHIT…”
The above quote comes from Steven Reed, the co-inventor of a ‘new’ TB vaccine that's been seriously hampered in its development by one of...
Today is World Lung Day
Today is World Lung Day (September 25th) This important day was first conceived and created during the 2016 Assembly of the Forum of...
'Our own Donald'
In many Buddhist traditions it is customary to mark the 49th day after death. Today is the 49th day since we lost Donald Eadie, a...
