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JOHANNESBURG, 21 November 2009 (IRIN) - South Africans are dying younger and in greater numbers, and HIV/AIDS is to blame, according to a report released this week by the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Division of Infectious Diseases and Center for Tuberculosis Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore,...
— PHOTO: K. MURALI KUMAR NEW ROLE: Actor Suhasini Mani Ratnam addressing an awareness workshop on tuberculosis and health reporting for Mount Carmel College students in Bangalore on Friday. Bangalore: Did you think tuberculosis...
Treatment for alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and tuberculosis (TB) is rarely integrated, even though the two diseases have a high co-occurrence. * American and Russian researchers have jointly designed and are monitoring an...
Bonnie Henry's guide to avoiding infection make a few mistakes but gets the basics right: Be careful, people Looking for the perfect gift for the incorrigible germaphobes on your Christmas list? Try Bonnie Henry's Soap and...
Sir John Crofton, a pioneering clinician who demonstrated that antibiotics could be safely combined to cure tuberculosis, a dread disease that once killed half the people who contracted it, died on Nov. 3 at his home in...
Last week, Robby Bitting '11 ate a Z-pack, slept diligently, and drained at least a keg of water. This week, he's quarantined in Brunswick Apartments with both H1N1 and a sinus infection. Despite the waves of vaccines rolling...
Author Summary Knowledge of the basic biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is essential to identifying novel ways to combat the emerging threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis. Since the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle is a...
A few months ago I came across Jennifer Maher's custom toy portraits site via a blog I can't remember now. That's the problem with a reader, I can never remember which site lead me where. I'm looking at my feeds...
When Dorothy*, a single mother of five, told her neighbours in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, she had tuberculosis (TB), she expected sympathy and maybe even offers of help. Instead, she found herself so severely ostracized, she...
