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6 hrs ago | BioMed Central

Resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to antibiotics in Lao PDR:...

It is estimated that Lao People's Democratic Republic ranks fifth among the seven countries most affected by TB in the WHO Western Pacific Region.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Southeast Asia, World News, Laos

Tue Jun 18, 2013

Cambridge Evening News

Cambridge labs to open up their doors to the public as Medical...

It is the paradigm of 21st century medical science - a cathedral to our unquenchable desire to find out how our bodies work, and why they go wrong.

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Related Topix: Biology, Molecular Biology, Science, Medicine, Health, Inventions, Science / Technology

Athens Banner-Herald

Gwinnett hospital warns of tuberculosis exposure

More than 100 patients at Gwinnett Medical Center are being urged to get screened for tuberculosis after potentially being exposed to a hospital employee with an active case of the disease.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Medical News

Scientists discover new anti-tuberculosis compound that kills drug-resistant TB bacteria

An international team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute , the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has identified a highly promising new anti- tuberculosis compound that attacks the tuberculosis bacterium in two different ways.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Scripps Research Institute, Technical Services, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Biotech, Charitable Organizations, Yeshiva University, Genetics, Immunology, Biology, Science

PhysOrg Weblog

Researchers launch novel investigation into tuberculosis transmission

Researchers at Colorado State University are launching the most realistic study ever conducted into how transmission of the tuberculosis pathogen triggers infectious disease, an investigation expected to yield new insights into a disease that attacks the lungs and kills some 1.5 million people worldwide each year.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Colorado State University, Infectious Diseases, World News, South Africa, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Charitable Organizations, Vaccinations

Thu Jun 13, 2013

Noozhawk

Tuberculosis Drug Shortage Spreads to Santa Barbara County

This past January, Dr. Charity Thoman started noticing the shortages. Santa Barbara County's normally stocked tuberculosis drugs were disappearing off the shelves, and instead of more drugs arriving to replace them, they stopped coming altogether.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Santa Barbara County, CA, Isoniazid (generic), Nydrazid, Laniazid

Wed Jun 12, 2013

PhysOrg Weblog

Researchers identify a new mechanism of TB drug resistance

PZA is used for treating both drug susceptible and multi-drug resistant TB but resistance to PZA occurs frequently and can compromise treatment.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Sat Jun 08, 2013

CiteULike

Prevalence of psychological distress and associated factors in...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Wed Jun 05, 2013

MediLexicon

Tuberculosis, Anthrax, And Other Diseases May Be Treated More Effectively By New Kind Of Antibiotic

Diseases such as tuberculosis, anthrax, and shigellosis - a severe food-borne illness - eventually could be treated with an entirely new and more-effective kind of antibiotic, thanks to a team of scientists led by Kenneth Keiler, an associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State University.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Food Science, Penn State University Park, Biochemistry, Biology, Molecular Biology, Science

Tue Jun 04, 2013

NBC Dallas

Edison Middle School Students Tested for TB

A student at Thomas Edison Middle School showed symptoms of tuberculosis, now 150 people are getting tested for the disease.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Medicine, Health

Mon Jun 03, 2013

EurekAlert!

New kind of antibiotic may be more effective at fighting tuberculosis, anthrax, and other diseases

Diseases such as tuberculosis, anthrax, and shigellosis -- a severe food-borne illness -- eventually could be treated with an entirely new and more-effective kind of antibiotic, thanks to a team... Diseases such as tuberculosis, anthrax, and shigellosis -- a severe food-borne illness -- eventually could be treated with an entirely new and ... (more)

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Food Science, Biochemistry, Biology, Molecular Biology, Science, Penn State University Park

National Public Radio

A Boston Family's Struggle With TB Reveals A Stubborn Foe

Michelle Williams, center, and two daughters visit the grave of her mother Judy Williams at the Fairview Cemetery in Hyde Park, Mass., on May 11, 2013.

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Related Topix: Judy, KY, Medicine, Health, Lung Cancer

Thu May 30, 2013

Bloomberg

U.S. Doctors Shouldn't Have to Beg for TB Drugs

I am a tuberculosis doctor. My patients and I inhabit a world of TB medications, diagnostic technology and public-health investigations.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Isoniazid (generic), Nydrazid, Laniazid, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Biotech, Healthcare Industry, California, California Government, Food and Drug Administration

Wed May 29, 2013

NowPublic

Tuberculosis Kills Almost Two Million People Every Year

A shocking new discovery has added yet another health benefit to the impressive resume of vitamin C. Researchers have determined that the super vitamin can kill drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Supplement, Vitamin C

Tue May 28, 2013

Trials Journal

Economic support to improve tuberculosis treatment outcomes in South...

Poverty undermines adherence to tuberculosis treatment. Economic support may both encourage and enable patients to complete treatment.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

WBNS

Aid group: Myanmar restrictions hurt health care

Restrictions imposed by Myanmar's government in the western state where Buddhists and Muslims clashed last year are preventing tens of thousands of people from getting health care and basic services, the international aid group Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Burma, Southeast Asia, World News, Medicine, Health

News Post Leader

Memories of old hospital wanted

A project is being launched to gather more information about the early days of a building which was built to treat children suffering from tuberculosis in the 1900s.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Mon May 27, 2013

Scotsman.com

Colin Currie: Hail the modern hero who beat TB

Sixty years on, it is almost impossible to imagine how tuberculosis and the fear of TB gripped Edinburgh in the early 1950s.

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Daily Mail

Hitler's hospital: The haunting remains of Nazi Germany's Beelitz...

Rusty beds, vine-covered buildings and empty corridors with walls covered in graffiti and slowly peeling paint are what remains of a gigantic hospital which once treated Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, after it was abandoned in the fall of East Germany.

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Related Topix: World News, Germany, Medicine, Health, Liver Cancer

Fri May 24, 2013

BioMed Central

Detection of second-line drug resistance in mycobacterium...

The steady rise in the spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis requires rapid and reliable methods to identify resistant strains.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health