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JAMA. 2009;302(22):2488-2489. Tuberculosis has plagued the human race for at least hundreds of years. In the late 19th century, Koch's arduous work led to the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis , the bacterium causing tuberculosis.
ELYRIA — About 35 parents showed up at Elyria High School on Thursday night to find out more about tuberculosis after it was announced that a student there had been diagnosed with the disease. Maryann Manning, a registered nurse who is administrator of the Lorain County TB Clinic, reassured parents that it is safe for their [...]
Health experts called for more research funding to develop better diagnostic tests, vaccines and drugs for tuberculosis, which killed 1.8 million people around the world last year.
SAN FRANCISCO----Biomagnetics Diagnostics Corp., a developer of revolutionary diagnostic systems and technology for HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis and malaria detection provides the following recap of yesterday's investor conference call, which discussed the Company’s acquisition of intellectual property rights from Los Alamos National Security and how the Company plans to utilize this ...
HERNDON, VA--(Marketwire - December 1, 2009) - Guardian Technologies International ( OTCBB : GDTI ) is bringing the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) into the 21st century with Signature Mapping TBDxT (SM TBDx), an automated diagnostic solution using sophisticated detection algorithms to identify TB under microscopy in sputum samples, at the laboratory level. Signature Mapping TBDx successfully ...
ELYRIA, OH (WOIO) - It was no ordinary school day at Elyria High Thursday afternoon. There's a tuberculosis alert there. The alert was prompted after a student came down with the disease.st
ELYRIA — The Elyria High School student diagnosed with tuberculosis does not have a drug-resistant form of the disease, parents were told at an information meeting last night hosted by the district and Lorain County Tuberculosis clinic.
ELYRIA, Ohio -- An Elyria High School student is home recovering after testing positive for tuberculosis. Teachers were tested for TB Wednesday. Students will be tested for free Monday and Tuesday with parental permission.
ELYRIA, Ohio -- The Lorain County Tuberculosis Clinic alerted school officials Wednesday, that a student at Elyria High School has tested positive for Tuberculosis (TB).
The pharmaceutical industry is working harder than ever to create multiple vaccines for such ailments as malaria, tuberculosis, genital herpes and AIDS, with hopes of releasing them to the public in as little as five years.
A British medical researcher believes she has answered the longstanding question of what killed Jane Austen — and it wasn’t her foreboding of today’s wave of Austen-horror mashup books. The Guardian reported that Katherine G. White of the Addison’s Disease Self-Help Group has written an article for Medical Humanities magazine in which she says that Austen probably died of tuberculosis caught ...
