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...tuberculosis victims, the worst part about the disease isn’t the symptoms, which include coughing up blood for weeks on end. Nor is it the prospect of eventually becoming another one of the 1.7 million people who die every year from TB...
Edwards, the McKay professor of the practice of biomedical engineering, has developed an innovative technique for vaccinating patients against TB. His approach administers the vaccine through an inhaled spray, rather than the typical needle...
...African countries 50%. The President's Malaria Initiative, announced by the Bush Administration in 2005, has pledged $1.2 billion for the effort over the next five years. For its part, Marathon helped the Equatoguinean government apply for a $26 million grant from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria to expand the campaign to the rest of Equatorial Guinea. Clearly it is a good policy for business--and even better for people...
...hundred years ago or so this saying was true: "Who knows lues (or syphilis) knows medicine." That venereal disease, which most docs today have never once treated, was known as the great imitator - it could present itself as a fracture, a brain tumor, consumption (like TB), back pain or renal failure. By the 50s, 60s and 70s, American medicine had to deal with strong doses of ethyl alcohol, and the spectrum of alcohol-related diseases was nearly as broad as syphillis'. The stumble-bum from New York's Bowery was easy to see. The huge vascular operations...
Current efforts to reduce tuberculosis (TB) death tolls in areas with high rates of HIV infection promote the development of drug-resistant strains of the deadly disease, according to a study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers. Instructor in Medicine Theodore H. Cohen and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Megan Murray will publish their findings in the May 2 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The new study puts an emphasis on areas with high HIV rates and warns against the effects of indiscriminately using isoniazid on all patients, Cohen said. Isoniazid preventive therapy, a drug...