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telegraph.co.uk » UK news, breaking UK news, latest UK news, latest UK politics news - Mar 8, 2010
A hospital has launched an investigation after a newborn baby was given an overdose of a tuberculosis vaccine.
Also tagged: vaccine, baby, overdose, scunthorpe
medicalnewstoday.com » Health News from Medical News Today - Mar 7, 2010
University of Washington (UW) researchers have identified a gene involved in susceptibility and resistance to tuberculosis. This same gene, they have found, has a role in the severity of leprosy, which is caused by a …
medicalnewstoday.com » Health News from Medical News Today - Mar 7, 2010
When people get exposed to the mycobacterium responsible for tuberculosis (TB), some will become sick with a disease that is a major cause of mortality around the world while others simply don't. Now, researchers …
xconomy.com » Xconomy VC, Deals, & Startups Feed - Mar 5, 2010
This week I spoke with veteran biotech executive Una Ryan at her office about her strategy for raising money to advance the cause at the Harvard spinout Diagnostics For All. So it was no surprise to spot her just a few …
Also tagged: aids, diabetes, diagnostics, boston, deals, hiv, malaria, life sciences, boston blog main, national blog main, george whitesides, celldex therapeutics, una ryan, waltham technologies, avant immunotherpeutics, patrick beattie
boingboing.net » Boing Boing - Mar 3, 2010
Mia Quagliarello of YouTube, who kindly invited me to guest-curate the YouTube home page last month, just sent along this odd find. "This made me think of Boing Boing," she says, "This guy, Christiaan Van Vuuren, has …
Also tagged: entertainment, video, funny, hospital, wtf, lol
nytimes.com » NYT > Asia Pacific - Mar 2, 2010
A public health project is said to represent “an unprecedented level of cooperation” between doctors from the United States and North Korea.
Also tagged: north korea, doctors, medicine and health, stanford university
neatorama.com » Neatorama - Feb 28, 2010
[YouTube - Link] Not long ago I was diagnosed with a rare strain of Tuberculosis and I’ve been stuck in a hospital quarantine room in Sydney for a total of about 60 days, with at least another 30 to go, while I am …
Also tagged: everything else, tb, quarantine, christiaan van vuuren, fully sick, fully sick rapper, hospital rapper, life in quarantine, sick rapper, tb rapper
medicalnewstoday.com » Health News from Medical News Today - Feb 26, 2010
Initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) during tuberculosis therapy significantly reduced mortality rates by 56 percent in a randomized clinical trial of 642 patients co-infected with HIV and tuberculosis. The study …
medicalnewstoday.com » Health News from Medical News Today - Feb 23, 2010
A "controversial" study, released on Sunday, "suggests international rules that bar potentially infectious tuberculosis patients from flying are too stringent and airline passengers are really at little risk from …
medicalnewstoday.com » Health News from Medical News Today - Feb 21, 2010
A simple change in the drug regimen used to prevent active tuberculosis disease among HIV-positive people who test positive for latent TB infection can drastically reduce TB-related illness, suggests a study by the …