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• Budapest, The Berlin Wall, and Iran: What Obama Does Not Grasp

  
  The New Republic - the spine Feed — Authority: 123
  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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• Mobiles as microscopes

  
  LIRNEasia — Authority: 501
  Nuwan Waidyanatha’s RTBP project at LIRNEasia examines how mobiles can be used to communicate epidemiological information from the field for analysis through data mining. Here , the mobile can be used to directly gather data from patients. MICROSCOPES are invaluable tools to identify blood and other cells when ...
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• EXCLUSIVE: Rare virus poses new threat to troops

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 149
  via UnslaveMeeBy Sara A. Carter 11/6/09KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | U.S. military officials sent a medical team to a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan this week to take blood samples from members of an Army unit after a soldier in the unit died from an Ebola-like virus.Dr. Jim Radike, an expert in internal medicine ...
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• Death of TB treatment pioneer

  
  TropIKA — Authority: 125
  Sir John Crofton, recognised as a leading pioneer in the treatment of tuberculosis has died aged 97. He first came to international prominence in 1948 with a paper reporting a trial of the use of streptomycin with TB patients (1). This study is now regarded as a major contribution in the development of clinical trial ...
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• Indiana DNR to collect deer heads for bovine TB testing

  
  Stabley Outdoors — Authority: 431
  DNR NEWS State biologists plan to collect 650 deer heads from cooperating hunters during the opening weekend of the firearms season on Nov. 14 and 15 in order to test for the presence of bovine tuberculosis. “This effort should go a long way in helping us find out if the disease has jumped the fence,” DNR deer ...
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• Tap wealth of local products emerging to fight neglected diseases of poor: study

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 612
  Research firms in developing countries have a medicine cabinet full of affordable and innovative drugs, diagnostics and vaccines on shelves or in development to address "neglected tropical diseases
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• UW Scientists, Backed by Gates Foundation, Enter “Put Up or Shut Up” Phase with Portable Diagnostic

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 707
  Biotech , Diagnostics , Global Health Luke Timmerman wrote: When somebody gets a fever in a poor country, there is no quick or easy way to tell whether it’s a symptom of flu, malaria, a bacterial invader, or some other bug. And if you don’t what it is, then it’s hard to treat. So it’s only ...
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• Who are these 46 million who are not insured?

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 524
  Liberals have been accused of misrepresenting the data on those who are uninsured. So, I thought take a couple of seconds and set the record straight. The U.S. Census has released a report on income, poverty and health insurance status a couple of months ago. The data is from 2008. There are 46.3 million people ...
  1 week ago

• African Scientist Wins Award For HIV And TB Co-infection Research

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  A scientist who is helping to treat thousands of people living with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa was awarded the Royal Society Pfizer Award at a ceremony last night (27 October). Dr Linda-Gail Bekkers research looks at how TB epidemiology has changed in the HIV era. Researchers estimate that more than ...
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• Three ‘Agua Amigos’ Video Debut on Structured Water

  
  Thought for Food — Authority: 103
  My learning adventure continues each week, as I have recently been introduced to additional modalities that can be called upon to facilitate a beneficial “shift” in one’s health and well-being. Among these are PSYCH-K , which I recently did a Talk For Food show on with Jeanne Northington, a PSYCH-K practitioner ...
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• Also In Global Health News: Ghana, Nigeria Global Fund Grants; CDC Director On Global Health Role; African Peacekeepers And HIV/AIDS

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 143
  Guyana Receives $10M Grant From Global Fund Stabroek News reports on the recent news that Guyana received a $10 million grant from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Source: Also In Global Health News: Ghana, Nigeria Global Fund Grants; CDC Director On Global Health Role; African ...
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• African scientist wins award for HIV and TB co-infection researc...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 153
  A scientist who is helping to treat thousands of people living with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa has been awarded the Royal Society Pfizer Award. Dr Linda-Gail Bekker’s research looks at how TB epidemiology has changed in the HIV era.
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• Social inequality has held back India’s progress against TB

  
  TropIKA — Authority: 125
  India’s tuberculosis burden is considerable. Every year 1.8 million Indians develop TB - about one fifth of the global figure. There are many factors contributing to the failure of progress to control TB in India. One of them, which is seldom discussed, is social inequality. The issue was, however, raised during a ...
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• Watch U2 Live and Help Fight Poverty, AIDS and Injustice (Video)

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 623
  U2 rocked my world last night at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, and if you weren’t one of fortunate 90,000 people in attendance you can watch a rebroadcast of the live streaming performance on YouTube now , and also get involved with the groups efforts to help fight poverty, AIDS, and injustice throughout the ...
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• Dr. Anthony Falcon: Were Facing A Catastrophic Situation On The Border

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  Kaiser Health News staff writer Jessica Marcy talks with Dr. Antonio Falcon, a physician in the border town of Rio Grande City, Texas. He explained his concern "about several health threats facing border communities, including tuberculosis, diabetes, obesity and the H1N1 virus that causes swine flu.
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• Poet John Keats suffered agonising death at hands of bungling doctor new book claims

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 974
  The Romantic poet suffered an agonising death due to the bungling doctors misdiagnosis the new biography claimed.
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• Bungling doctor “killed” John Keats

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, October 25 (ANI): A new biography on Joseph Severn, an artist who befriended romantic poet John Keats, has revealed that a doctor misdiagnosed the ‘Hyperion’ poet, which ultimately resulted in his death.The book written by Sue Brown discloses that Dr James Clark delayed treating Keats for tuberculosis for ...
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• Asian people eat rats

  
  Romanian National Vanguard News Agency — Authority: 137
  …and why did you thought that most of the worlds diseases came from Asia and Africa? Rats are the most dirty creatures on the face of this planet, carriers of viruses and bacteria such as Tuberculosis and other pests that cause Dysentery. In Asia they probably have KFR instead of KFC, meaning Kentucky Fried Rat. Be ...
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• Equatorial Guinea Health And Welfare Ministry Embarks on Vaccination Campaign

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  The Equatorial Guinean Health and Welfare ministry has launched a vaccination campaign against diseases such as tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, measles and poliomyelitis. The three-day operation targets children aged 0 to 5 years and pregnant women. It aims to achieve over 80% immunization coverage in order to ...
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• My breakfast has changed for the last month…

  
  My thoughts in words — Authority: 91
  … and will remain the same for the next 7. This is what I have for breakfast these days. AKT4 , a kit of 4 tablets that need to be consumed empty stomach. Well, that is the only way to have it unlike what Sanjay says here and you can’t skip a single dosage!! Yup, it is painful. The very thought of having ...
  2 weeks ago

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