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75 Filipinos Afflicted With TB Die Everyday

...ng Malaria and Aids, which are tagged as the three killer diseases in the world. WVFI is being funded by the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB, Malaria (GFATM), an organization based in Geneva, Switzerland that was created in 2002. Villanueva said at least 75 Filipinos afflicted with TB die everyday, plac...

Tasmanian Car Smoking Ban Sets Good Example For Other Governments

...otal smoke-free zone or, better still, give up the killer habit totally. “The fruit-flavoured cigarettes are another Big Tobacco trick that had to be outlawed. “The AMA congratulates the Tasmanian Government for taking these major steps to rid our community of smoking and the harm it causes. “We urge ...

Scientists Develop a Harmless Multi-Tasking Reovirus

...ng to the adaptive immune response, namely natural killer cells and T cells, to attack the tumor even after the virus no longer remains in the body. That poster was presented at the European National Societies of Immunology Meeting in Paris. Interestingly, another study conducted in 2006 at the Mayo Clini...

Rich Nations to Sign $1.5 Bn Vaccine Pact in Italy

...ich causes pneumonia and meningitis and is a major killer of children under five in poor countries, said Italian officials. The ultimate aim of the project is to fight malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Indian Scientists Develop Dipstick Test for Dengue

...xpansion in several parts of Southeast Asia (see A killer arises: the global resurgence of dengue), making early diagnosis extremely important for controlling outbreaks. The research was published online last week (27 January) in Biotechnology Progress. Source-Bio-Bio Technology SI...

Young People Who Died Suddenly, Inexplicably Had Genetic Heart Defects

...provide an answer is, in fact, a key clue that the killer may be LQTS or CPVT,” says Michael J. Ackerman, M.D., Ph.D., the study’s chief author who heads the Mayo Clinic Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory. “To prevent further tragic, premature deaths, the standard of care for the evalua...

Tuberculosis Experts Outline Proposals to Speed Up Drug Development

...ther urgency to the situation. TB remains the main killer of people with HIV, in large part because existing TB drugs and tests are poorly adapted for use in people with HIV/AIDS. "In TB research, there needs to be a convergence of innovation, incentive, and access," said Dr. Carl Nathan, Rees Pritchett P...

Estrogen Linked to Immune Surveillance in Breast Cancer

...ents that occurs when immune cells, called natural killer cells, encounter a tumor cell. Under normal conditions, natural killer cells release granules that contain enzymes, called granzymes, which enter and kill the tumor cell. ...

Kenya: Alert As Virus Leaps Over Buffer Zone

...for the first time. This has created fear that the killer bug could be headed for Nairobi. The buffer was created by the ministry of Livestock Development, with help from World Health Organisation (WHO) and Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). It aimed at vaccinating two million animals while maint...

Statins Aid Survival in Lung Patients, Say Experts

...(WHO) estimates COPD will become the third-biggest killer illness worldwide by 2020. It afflicts people over 40 who have been smoking for many years. It contributes to other illnesses such as pneumonia, heart disease and stroke. There is no cure for COPD but treatments can relieve the symptoms and therapi...

Melioidosis Disease Warning After Heavy Desert Rain

...'s Health Department Experts have warned about the killer tropical disease melioidosis after the recent flooding in central Australia.// There have been 10 cases of the disease in the heavy monsoonal rain regions of Central Australia during the past decade, including one death. While the desert clean-up...

Forcible Detention and Isolation Needed for XDR-TB Patients, warn Experts

...ent of AIDS patients. As such, regular TB is the killer of almost all persons with AIDS. The disease is highly contagious, and the organisms are airborne, hence the threat of a global pandemic if not controlled at the earliest, say the researchers. So far 300 cases of the disease have been recorded an...

Much Room for Cancer Cure in a Mushroom, Scientists Promise

...cer of the Bowel is known to be the second biggest killer and nearly 1500 people succumbed to the disease in 2006 in Scotland. Scientists have planned to seek the approval of regulators to conduct clinical trials of the drugs. A team, led by Dr Bjorn Kristiansen, the CEO of Norwegian firm Medimush, are p...

Bihar to Wipe Out Kalaazar by 2010

...al Leishmaniasis - is the second-largest parasitic killer in the world after malaria. Bihar faced a kalaazar epidemic in 1991 when 250,000 cases were reported. Around 90 percent of kalaazar cases are found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sudan and northeast Brazil. Over 60 percent of the cases in India are f...

Britain’s Hearts in Good Care – Deaths Due to Heart Disease Falls by 3%

...combat CHD on a nation that was battling a mammoth killer accounting for nearly 270,000 heart attacks each year. The report has shown the huge strides taken in the treatment of patients, who most certainly receive treatment within the first half hour of their arrival at the hospital. In 2005, nearly 970...

Kalaazar sweeping through Bihar, 93 dead

...al Leishmaniasis - is the second-largest parasitic killer in the world after malaria. The parasite attacks the bone marrow and weakens the immune system leading to increased vulnerability to infections and diseases. The disease occurs in 62 countries, primarily in the developing world. Around 90 percent o...

Cellular Pathway Yields Potential New Weapon in Vaccine Arsenal

...cells: Helper T cells encourage their counterpart, killer T cells, to hunt down and attack invading pathogen...ntigens on MHC class I molecules are recognized by killer T cells and had originally been thought to come only from sources inside a cell (proteins from the n...

Mystery Fever Kills 35 Children in UP

...ng the region claiming children as victims. 'The killer virus is still at large so we are actually at a loss as to how we should tackle it,' said K.P. Kushwaha, a paediatrician at the Gorakhpur Medical College, a nodal centre for the treatment of various kinds of brain fever. As many as 2,050 children, ...

Positive Animal Study on MYO-VAD, Promise for Treatment of Heart Failure

...effective and heart failure remains the number one killer and the most costly condition for the U.S. health care system,” said Mr. Helfer. According to the American Heart Association, 550,000 new cases of heart failure are diagnosed annually in the U.S. and an estimated 15 million new cases are reported y...

Social Vaccine Is New Mantra To Fight AIDS

...e a mass awareness to educate the people about the killer disease and on how to prevent it" said Piot, who was member of a delegation on a daylong visit to Bihar along with Suma Chakrabarti, permanent Secretary, Department for International Development (DFID) of Britain. Bihar is a focus state for both DFI...

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