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Tijuana injection drug users on collision course for HIV and TB
Apr 15, 2009 |
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A study by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, in collaboration with Mexican researchers and health officials, shows that as many as 67 percent of injection drug users in Tijuana test ...
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TB patient travel may have been illegal
Jul 18, 2007 |
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Local officials may have violated Georgia law when they allowed tuberculosis patient Andrew Speaker to travel.
Type of lung cancer screening used to detect disease may impact 5-year survival rates
May 04, 2009 |
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Dr. Hisao Asamura and his team of researchers at The National Cancer Center Hospital in Tokyo, Japan examined the records of 2,281 patients who underwent lung cancer resection surgery between 2000 and 2006. The study was ...
Researchers find TB-prevention therapy is cost-effective option
Sep 09, 2009 |
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University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers have found that the cost of preventive antibiotic tuberculosis (TB) therapy for patients infected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is generally less expensive than ...
Scientists identify gene that may make humans more vulnerable to pulmonary tuberculosis
Oct 10, 2008 |
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Researchers from the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and its collaborators have now identified for the first time a new gene that may confer susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis. Their findings, published October ...
Gene with probable role in human susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis identified
Oct 09, 2008 |
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A new gene that may confer susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis has been identified by Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) researchers and their collaborators in The Netherlands, Indonesia, United Kingdom, and the Russian ...
Scientists discover bacteria that can cause bone infections
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Oct 17, 2008 |
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Scientists have discovered that a bone infection is caused by a newly described species of bacteria that is related to the tuberculosis pathogen. The discovery may help improve the diagnosis and treatment of similar infections, ...
Combination of PET/CT tests can expedite diagnosis of lung cancer in a fast-track setting
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Research published in the October 2009 issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology has found an effective combination of positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) (PET/CT) tests to diagnose lung cancer in a " ...
Better and faster: Distinguishing non-TB pulmonary disease from TB
Apr 01, 2008 |
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A diagnostic kit shows new promise for distinguishing between tuberculosis (TB) and its infections from disease caused by related mycobacteria family, which mimic TB and other lung disease in symptoms but require distinctly ...
Smoking and solid fuel use in homes in China projected to cause millions of deaths
Oct 04, 2008 |
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If current levels of smoking and biomass and coal fuel use in homes continues, between 2003 and 2033 there will be an estimated 65 million deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and 18 million deaths from ...
Tumor size and level of visceral pleura invasion can impact survival of NSCLC patients
Aug 19, 2009 |
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A study published in the August 2009 edition of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology found that non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients could be more accurately staged at diagnosis by taking into account the level of vis ...
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