CDC Director lauds India for TB and tobacco use control efforts, urges preparations to combat NCDs CDC Director Thomas Frieden, who currently is visiting India and who previously worked with the Indian federal government assisting in tuberculosis control, praised the country’s progress in controlling tuberculosis and tobacco make use of on Monday throughout a speech to doctors and policymakers, according to the Wall Road Journal’s India Real Time blog. This content was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family members Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research firm unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente. Continue reading