The NPF Newsbag

It Will Take Your Breath Away

2009-12-07T17:32:08-05:00

They won’t make headlines saying, as one doctor did at a press conference today: “As we know, breathing is essential.”

Recognizing Excellent Work on TB

2009-12-06T17:14:58-05:00

The reporters shed a compelling light on a dark disease in which change is incremental and the least powerful are most at risk.

Old, Messy, Poor: TB is forgotten, but not gone

2009-12-04T19:58:24-05:00

A range of experts on lung disease kept asking the same question: Why can’t we get the media to pay attention?

Thinking about tobacco

2009-12-03T11:07:37-05:00

NPF President Bob Meyers has been heard to say that tobacco is the rare legal product, which – if used as intended – can kill you. But tobacco growers and cigarette manufacturers are still at work, legally producing, marketing and selling all manner of deadly smokes. Surely, there is a story there.

Tuberculosis is still with us. Surprised?

2009-12-02T12:31:47-05:00

Tuberculosis kills 1.8 million people worldwide every year, WAY more than lots of public health threats that have gotten a lot more ink. Think SARS (813 dead); avian flu (6,250); anthrax (5).