Hope for tuberculosis blood test
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Scientists have devised a blood test for tuberculosis which they hope will help doctors in the developing world.
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BEIJING, Aug.20(Xinhuanet) -- Scientists say the effectiveness of therapy for advanced breast cancer can be quickly predicted by an analysis of the level of cancer cells in the patient&#39;s blood.
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Australian scientists have developed a new vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) with the new hope to prevent the spread of the disease. Researchers with Sydney&#39;s Royal Prince Alfred
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Health experts meeting in Ethiopia say combined efforts to fight the HIV virus and tuberculosis could save the lives of up to a half-million Africans every year.
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Blood samples kept by a local GP could be the key to developing a single blood test to detect cancer.
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Here&#39;s some hope for people who are at risk for Type 1 Diabetes: A vaccine to fight the disease is about to be tested on humans for the first time.
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More than 550 patients who underwent shoulder investigations over seven years have been offered blood tests to establish whether they were accidentally infected with diseases such as HIV or hepatitis.
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A four-year study is to test if treatment for tuberculosis can be speeded up using a combination of drugs.
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Federal health authorities are looking for people who may have been exposed aboard a plane to someone infected with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis known as XDR-TB.
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NEW YORK  - Patients with tuberculosis and diabetes do not respond as well to tuberculosis therapy as those who are non-diabetic, Dutch researchers report.
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A test can tell if TB patients have stopped taking their medicine, which increases the risk of drug resistant strains.
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An experimental test that analyzes proteins in spinal fluid offers hope for definitive diagnosis of the disease.
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Scientists in Japan say they have identified a compound that appears to stop the tuberculosis bacteria from multiplying, offering new hope in the fight against the increasingly drug-resistant disease.
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The AIDS Prevention and Treatment Institute of the Guangdong Provincial Centre for Disease Control started offering the tests yesterday.
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The Chinese Ministry of Health announced here Wednesday that China will conduct nationwide HIV testing among people with blood selling history in the 1990s in aneffort to detect AIDS patients on early stage.
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NEW YORK  - The results of the first early  test of a new type of tuberculosis vaccine show that it elicits  strong immune responses in adults with or without a previous  bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination.
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For the first time in four decades, a new antibiotic has emerged that researchers say will revolutionize the fight against tuberculosis.