Blog Post Examines 3 Recently Published Pieces On Tuberculosis

Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: Tuberculosis: The world waits for a plan, patients with drug-resistant disease wait for options
Antigone Barton, senior writer and editor of “Science Speaks,” discusses three recently published pieces on the impact and threat of tuberculosis: an opinion piece in the Huffington Post by Dr. Lee Reichman of Rutgers Global Tuberculosis Institute; a letter in The Lancet by Caitlin Reed of UCLA Medical Center’s inpatient TB unit and others; and an opinion piece by Douglas Foster, an author and associate professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, in The Nation (10/6).

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