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• 8 year old Boy’s Primary Complex / TB cure progress – Solid Stools

  
  My Family Health Blog — Authority: 123
  Our 8 year old boy is progressing nicely.  I’m satisfied, my wife is satisfied.  From my wife’s point of view, he now seems to be gaining weight.  From my point of view, there are several symptoms that have been resolved and all are linked to his digestive and food absorptive capacities.Remember when muscle ...
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• Sir John Crofton, Pioneer in TB Cure, Dies at 97

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  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 Edinburgh. He was 97. The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh announced his death. Sir John ...
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• Treating alcohol-use disorders and tuberculosis together

  
  Fight Hangovers — Authority: 157
  Link: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/ace-tad111609.php » 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 innovative ...
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• Sir John Crofton, Pioneer in TB Cure, Dies at 97

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  The clinician showed that three antibiotics could be safely combined to provide a cure, providing the template for later combination therapies for cancer and AIDS.
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• Opinions: Fighting TB; Currency Transaction Tax

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 146
  Innovation, Coordination Needed To ‘Bring TB Research Into The 21st Century’ Though tuberculosis “is one of the world’s leading killers … few citizens, scientists and policymakers are demanding more attention to TB research, treatment and prevention. … It’s time to bring TB research ...
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• First Phase of a Mozambique Anti-retroviral Medication Factory to be Operational By the End of 2009

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  Health authorities in Mozambique have announced that the first phase of an anti-retroviral medication factory was due to be operational by the end of 2009. Mozambique has approved the construction of a pharmaceutical plant that will provide drugs to treat HIV/ AIDS, malaria and other diseases. The drugs are also ...
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• Opinions: Fighting TB; Currency Transaction Tax

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 721
  Innovation, Coordination Needed To Bring TB Research Into The 21st Century Though tuberculosis "is one of the worlds leading killers … few citizens, scientists and policymakers are demanding more attention to TB research, treatment and prevention.
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• Undergraduate earns Marshall Scholarship

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 556
  Grace Eckhoff, an undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named a Marshall Scholar, one of 40 scholars from across the nation who earned the scholarship to study abroad in the United Kingdom.Eckhoff is a Plan II Honors student in the College of Liberal Arts and an Honors biology major in the [...]
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• Vaccines For AIDS, Alzheimer’s, Herpes

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 586
  The AP reports (question: why is it that vaccines are suddenly front page news every day?): Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer’s disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler’s diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent ...
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• Alkaline Lemon Diet – Aim For the Best Quality of Life by Alkalizing Your Body

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 152
  Alkaline diet includes lemon and undeniably, lemon is one of the best foods that belong to alkaline forming foods. Even if it is considered acid in its natural state, it has an alkaline effect in our body which causes it to be considered as an alkaline forming food. Alkaline lemon diet is really the best bet to ...
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• Research calls for better assessment of tests for tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and malaria

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 163
  (McGill University Health Centre) A rapid and accurate diagnosis is the first step towards treatment in the fight against infectious disease. A team headed by Dr. Madhukar Pai, RI MUHC [...]
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• Antagonistic drug pairings. “… two classes of antibiotics that suppress one another.”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 131
  Roy Kishony, Associate Professor of Systems Biology from Harvard Medical School has said: “The question we asked was how can it be that two drugs in combination are less effective than one of them alone …” More from a Release dated November 13, sourced from Harvard Medical School: Study reveals why certain ...
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• Highlighting public-private partnerships

  
  TropIKA — Authority: 129
  Chemical & Engineering News may not sound like a publication where one would expect to find an article describing the phenomenon of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the development of new technologies to address the infectious diseases of poverty. But the latest issue of C&EN does have, as its cover ...
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• One Lynching in Cairo, Ill.; Then, Another

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 470
  A huge mob in Cairo, Ill., perpetrated two savage, brutal lynchings yesterday, first of an African-American, Will James, and then of a white photographer, Henry Salzner.
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• Diary of an Amputation

  
  Thought for Food — Authority: 110
  Not the Disease, the Treatment Golden Years Interrupted I’ve been in sort of an “in-between” state lately, wanting to write and wanting to video, but not doing enough of either to suit me. There’s been an ongoing story of my step-father, Josh, who had a stroke in 2007 and, two years later, is progressing ...
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• TB remains South Africa’s greatest killer

  
  TropIKA — Authority: 129
  Newly published statistics from South Africa confirm that tuberculosis is the country’s biggest cause of death. The Statistics SA organisation said, “Other diseases that appeared as leading were influenza and pneumonia; intestinal infectious diseases; other diseases of the respiratory system; ischaemic heart ...
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• Local intiatives for TB treatment: proof of concept

  
  TropIKA — Authority: 129
  This year’s Canadian Conference on International Health heard an update on progress with the FIDELIS project (Fund for Innovative DOTS [Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course] Expansion Through Local Initiatives to Stop TB. A report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal sums up a presentation by Dr I ...
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• Suffragettes Stone Lord Mayors Inaugural

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 470
  Suffragettes projected stones upon the inauguration dinner for Sir John Knill, the new Lord Mayor of London, at Guildhall last night, in the presence Herbert H. Asquith, the prime minister, and Mrs. Asquith, as well as Winston Churchill; Count Cato, the Japanese ambassador; and other dignitaries.
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• Miners and TB: now is the time for South Africa to act

  
  TropIKA — Authority: 129
  Not only poverty but also specific occupations can raise the risk of infectious disease. As long ago as 1903 it was first recognised in South Africa that miners were more likely to develop tuberculosis than other people in the country. The same has been noted in other countries and it is believed that damage to the ...
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• Budapest, The Berlin Wall, and Iran: What Obama Does Not Grasp

  
  The New Republic - the spine Feed — Authority: 126
  It is just about 30 years since the wall around Iran went up. And it is a few days away from fully 20 years since the Berlin Wall came down. The Berliner Mauer had been up for more than a quarter century, and its surface facing east, grim gray , was a metaphor for life in the German Democratic Republic. On its ...
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