Word: tuberculosisã
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...addition to its role as an anticoagulant, warfarin inhibits the VKOR homologue of mycobacterium tuberculosis??€”a productive agent of tuberculosis...
...study—which modeled the effects of varying amounts of smoking and solid-fuel use on COPD, lung cancer, and tuberculosis??€”predicted that 65 million people would die from COPD and 18 million from lung disease in this period. Eighty-two percent of COPD deaths and 75 percent of lung cancer deaths in the model can be attributed to the combined effects of smoking and pollution...
Along with a number of associated outpatient clinics, the 40-bed Clinique treated more than 50,000 impoverished patients in 2000, dealing mostly with victims of AIDS and drug-resistant tuberculosis??€”and all for free...
...several years, he locked horns with the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) over its program of treatment for extremely poor patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis??€”a program which Mukherjee says amounted to letting such patients die on the grounds that treating them would not be “cost-effective...
...when newly antibiotic resistant bacteria have resurrected diseases previously thought to have been eradicated or at least controlled, this is an alarming prospect. Imagine one of those bacteria in your gut happens to be strep or staph or tuberculosis??€”something nasty, but controllable with standard antibiotics. Now imagine that they pick up a plasmid from a genetically modified piece of corn. What happens? The antibiotics don’t work any more. At this point it might be worth buying some life insurance and making sure your will is in order...