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World TB Day 2010
Today is World TB Day 2010, highlighting the burden of a disease that we’re determined to help tackle especially as one of the five major challenges we’ve set ourselves and our partners for the next...
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Counting Malaria Out: Malaria treatment as it used to be (updated)
A village-based distributor of chloroquine-containing Musujjaquin tablets explains the dosage and how to take the tablets to two young mothers who have bought their children to her home for treatment...
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Our man in Blantyre
The Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Blantyre, Malawi Cathryn Wood, Strategic Awards Officer at the Wellcome Trust, meets a Malawian scientist using his knowledge to help...
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Eunice Bowman, the oldest person in the UK dies aged 111
Click to view slideshow. Sadly, BBC News reports today that Eunice Bowman has died at the remarkable age of 111 and just one month shy of her 112th birthday, thus making her the oldest person to have...
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Q&A: Tackling TB in Peru
Dr Carlton Evans Up to a third of the world’s population are infected with the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), according to the World Health...
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World TB Day 2011
Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacillus) Today is World TB Day, raising awareness of a disease that causes millions of deaths each year, mainly in the developing world. Caused primarily by...
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75th stories: Helen McShane and a new vaccine for tuberculosis
Helen McShane To mark the 75th anniversary of the death of Henry Wellcome and the founding of the Wellcome Trust, we are publishing a series of 14 features on people who have been significant in the...
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The ART of timing: treating HIV-associated infections
Vietnam Hospital for Tropical Diseases Most clinical trials test new therapies against existing treatments in order to find out which approach is better at treating a particular illness. Carefully...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: TB Warning
March 24th is World Tuberculosis Day. It commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced he had discovered the cause of TB by successfully isolating the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis,...
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A new global strategy for TB vaccines
An X-ray showing pulmonary tuberculosis in the left lung (right of picture) Tomorrow, Saturday 24 March, it will be exactly 130 years since Robert Koch identified the cause of tuberculosis (TB) and...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: Defeat tuberculosis (1950)
This month’s film was produced by the government funded Central Office of Information for the Ministry of Health. The Central Office of Information was established in 1946 as the successor to the...
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From bench to field: Most advanced TB vaccine in pivotal trials
An eager trial participant in the MVA85A phase IIB infant trial in South Africa. Professor Helen McShane writes from the frontline of efforts to develop the first new TB vaccine in 90 years. The...
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TB: When the drugs don’t work
An X-ray showing pulmonary tuberculosis in the left lung (right of picture) Kathryn Lougheed on why tuberculosis is still a problem and the key role of basic research in tackling it. When I tell people...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up: 30.03.15
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust community… New insight into TB immune evasion A new version of a gene, that may help to explain why some people are more susceptible to TB than...
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Image of the Week: Tuberculosis sanatorium
Every year on 24 March, World TB Day commemorates the day in 1882 that Dr Robert Koch identified the tubercle bacillus as the cause of the disease. Despite advances in modern medicine, TB is still...
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