An editorial entitled "Shortening Treatment for Tuberculosis - Back to Basics" appears in this week’s NEJM by academics Digby Warner and Valerie Mizrahi, Director of the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM), on the need for basic science in TB and lack of progress in shortening drug regimens. 

This comes ahead of the IDM’s 10th Anniversary Symposium commencing on Sunday 2 November, where topics such as this will be discussed.