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Scientists at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, carried out a research that showed that vitamin D can accelerate the antibiotic treatment in patients suffering from tuberculosis (TB).TB patients have vitamin D deficiency (122/126 patients in the trial, or 97%), had inadequate levels of vitamin D ... |
6 January 2011
06:57 GMT |
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A new research conducted by China Medical University concluded that patients suffering from tuberculosis are at higher risk of developing lung cancer.To date, no clear association between tuberculosis and lung cancer has been established, but this new study brings evidence of an increased lung cancer risk in people w... |
3 January 2011
08:17 GMT |
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The United Kingdom is the only country within Western Europe where the rates of tuberculosis (TB) have been rising, and Global TB expert Professor Alimuddin Zumla (UCL Infection & Immunity) has pulled the alarm signal.Ever since 1999, TB cases in London have increased by over 50 percent, and today, more than 9,000 ca... |
17 December 2010
06:43 GMT |
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $4 million grant to William R. Jacobs, Jr, PhD, professor of microbiology & immunology and of genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, and also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator, to develop a new strategy to fight tube... |
5 October 2010
05:31 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the Nationwide Children's Hospital (NCH) announces the discovery of a new marker for tuberculosis, that could be used to determine who will develop the condition in the future.Tuberculosis is still a very dangerous disease, and one that continues to spread in areas of the world that ... |
30 August 2010
04:56 GMT |
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At one point in our history, a diagnostic of tuberculosis (TB) equaled certain death. With the advent of antibiotics, treating the devastating condition became possible, and some experts were even confident that eradication was a real possibility. But unfortunately, the microorganism causing the disease, called Mycob... |
22 March 2010
07:24 GMT |
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The Ancient Egyptian mummy known as Irtyersenu caused quite a stir in England in 1825, when Dr. Augustus Bozzi Granville, the expert who performed the first autopsy on the remains, concluded that the woman had died of ovarian cancer. The finds were presented to the Royal Society of London, and caused quite a bit of e... |
30 September 2009
06:49 GMT |
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Experts from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center have managed to crack one of the most difficult problems in modern-day medicine, when they published a new study in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, detailing how the vaccine commonly used to fight tuberculosis (TB) could be augmented to boost its efficiency. Tha... |
20 May 2009
05:51 GMT |
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Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) – a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – working with colleagues from the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases in Singapore, managed to devise a new experimental drug, that showed promise in lab tests, when ... |
28 November 2008
04:35 GMT |
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A new blood test aimed at detecting people with high tuberculosis (TB) risks, developed by British scientists, could take preventive medicine for this disease to a whole new level. The new test is meant to replace the 100-year-old tuberculin skin test, which is less accurate and can give back false positive results i... |
21 October 2008
05:41 GMT |
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Doctors and geneticists took a huge step forward recently, with the creation of a new anti-tuberculosis (TB) vaccine that proved to be much more effective in clinical trials than the standard BCG medication currently being used. The new drug uses a weak form of a TB strain that appeared 75 years ago. The strain is st... |
20 October 2008
09:16 GMT |
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Tests done on animal models revealed that a formerly unknown molecule – interleukin-6 – plays a substantial role in fighting diabetes and obesity. Ironically, until now, researchers believed that this molecule caused the diseases, given the fact that it was discovered in chronically high quantities in all... |
20 October 2008
05:09 GMT |
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A new type of bacteria, similar to the one that causes tuberculosis (TB) in humans, has been identified as a primary cause for serious bone diseases. The new culprit is part of the Mycobacterium class, which also contains Mycobacterium intracellulare and Mycobacterium avium, which can cause very serious lung diseases... |
17 October 2008
10:10 GMT |
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It's now official – tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest diseases on Earth and one that has "coexisted" with humans for the better part of the last 9,000 years. Digs at Alit-Yam, off the coast of Egypt, revealed skeletal remains of a mother and her baby. Their bones exhibited markings similar to those le... |
15 October 2008
06:45 GMT |
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People suffering from Type 2 diabetes are at much higher risk of contracting tuberculosis (TB) than the rest, a new study revealed. This discovery is very alarming, as, according to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, more than 180 million people in the world today suffer from diabetes, with the number schedul... |
15 October 2008
05:44 GMT |
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Tough one third of the world's population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), only 5 to 10 percent of them will ever develop the disease in its active state. Why this happens remains a mystery to this day, but researchers think they may have had a b... |
10 October 2008
10:12 GMT |
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What's the link between strong bones and TB?A team from Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Imperial College have found that vitamin D could fight against tuberculosis. TB kills annually about 2 million people worlwide, but developed countries are not spared: UK registered in 2006 a 2 % rise (8,000 new ca... |
14 May 2007
17:16 GMT |
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