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Converting Cancer Therapies into Cures: Lessons from Infectious ...  Mar 16, 2012 ... During the past decade, cancer drug development has shifted from a ... and bacterial infections, such as HIV and tuberculosis, are instructive for ... The history of targeted cancer therapy is much shorter than that of infectious diseases, but ... patients, could also transform current infectious diseases treatment.
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Infectious Complications Associated with Monoclonal Antibodies ...  These drugs have obvious advantages over conventional therapy in terms of potency, ... The first monoclonal antibody used in the treatment of disease was ... with cancer, autoimmune diseases, and inflammatory conditions such as .... These infections included bacterial, viral, and fungal infections as well as TB (151, 155).
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T-Cell Therapy: Options for Infectious Diseases. - NCBI  Oct 15, 2015 ... (3)Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, German Center for Infection Research, ... The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis is challenging ... in clinical conditions, especially in treating cancer as well as for prevention of...
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Multiple-Drug Therapy for Tuberculosis (TB) - WebMD  Multiple-drug therapy to treat TB means taking several different antibiotics at the ... Prepared combination medicines, such as Rifater, are usually used when there is a ... to prevent a latent TB infection from turning into active TB disease, which can ... It can also take longer if the disease does not respond well to the medicine.
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T-Cell Therapy: Options for Infectious Diseases  The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis is challenging tuberculosis control .... granulocyte colony stimulating factor in various infections such as M. bovis ..... The use of T-cell therapy in cancer as well as for prophylaxis and treatment of...
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Neutron capture therapy of cancer - Wikipedia  Neutron capture therapy (NCT) is a noninvasive therapeutic modality for treating locally invasive malignant tumors such as primary brain tumors and recurrent head and neck cancer. It is a two step procedure: first, the patient is injected with a tumor localizing .... Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is based on the nuclear capture and...
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Early Research and Treatment of Tuberculosis in the 19th Century ...  During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tuberculosis (TB) was the leading ... by fatigue, night sweats, and a general wasting away of the victim. ... often, doctors simply advised their patients to rest, eat well, and exercise outdoors.
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Boron neutron capture therapy as a novel modality of radiotherapy ...  Radiotherapy is essential for the treatment of oral cancer, especially in advanced ... Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is a unique modality in which neutron ... In spite of these developments, in principle, radiotherapy is still non-selective. ..... A history of boron neutron capture therapy of brain tumourspostulation of a...
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Boron Neutron Capture Therapy for Malignant Brain Tumors - NCBI  May 31, 2016 ... Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is a biochemically targeted .... These results were used to estimate the L/N ratio of BPA uptake, which in turn was used for dose planning. ... In addition, a tumor treatment field (TTF)-device has been ..... Maruhashi A.: Experimental verification of beam characteristics for...
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How is malaria treated and prevented? | Facts | yourgenome.org  Jan 25, 2016 ... If malaria is diagnosed and treated quickly, most people will fully recover. ... Drugs that kill the parasite that causes malaria can be used to treat and prevent the disease. ... For example, primaquine can be used along with chloroquine to treat .... This resistance can then spread when the surviving mosquitos...
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curing childhood leukemia - National Academy of Sciences  including the cure for childhood leukemia described here, are based ... not only cancer, but also gout, ... The scientists who developed those drugs, which .... medicine resulted in the awarding of a Nobel Prize to ... is a disease of the blood and bone marrow. .... Gertrude Elion joined Hitchings' group in 1944, ... herpes, cold.
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Tuberculosis - Wikipedia  Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections do not have symptoms, known as latent tuberculosis. ... The historical term "consumption" came about due to the weight loss.
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Chapter 2Medical Assessment and Treatment - Substance Abuse ...  Some medications used to treat HIV/AIDS and its complications can affect treatment ... Many HIV/AIDS treatment drugs are processed through the liver, and their .... adherence to zidovudine (Retrovir--abbreviated as AZT), but its applicability may ..... used to treat HIV, each medicine working in a different way to fight the virus.
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History of Tuberculosis. Part 1  Phthisis, consumption and the ...  Tuberculosis was also known as phthisis and consumption from Hippocrates through ... and other names which evoked the despair and horror of the disease such as ... the body and caused a person to lie in sickness . a long time wasting away. ... In the Hippocrates' era patients were nursed in temples and treated with...
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History of Tuberculosis - Rutgers University  The term phthisis, consumption, appears first in Greek literature. ... The names of the deceased should be reported to the authorities, and .... Global Alliance for TB Drug Development in an effort to shorten treatment. ... Although bacteria may still be present in the smears, they will become more and more difficult to culture.
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Progress on global access to HIV antiretroviral therapy  Progress on global access to HIV antiretroviral therapy: a report on 3 by 5 ..... countries provide treatment to 3 million people living with HIV/AIDS by the end of 2005. ... Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in December 2003 and unanimously...
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Antibiotics Types and Side Effects - eMedExpert  An antibiotic is a drug that kills or slows the growth of bacteria. ... a larger group which also includes anti-viral, anti-fungal, and anti-parasitic drugs. Antibiotics are chemicals produced by or derived from microorganisms (i.e. bugs or ... In rare cases penicillins can cause immediate or delayed allergic reactions which manifest...
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The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis: Thomas Dormandy ...  Editorial Reviews. From Publishers Weekly. Accessible scientific and sociological history are ... The victims of tuberculosis (usually known as consumption) included not only Keats, The Bronts, Chopin and Chekhov, but members of almost every family. .... Sadly, however, TB's protean bacteria quickly began to mutate into...
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Zidovudine - Wikipedia  Zidovudine (ZDV), also known as azidothymidine (AZT), is an antiretroviral medication used to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS. It reduces the replication of the virus and leads to improvements in both ... Zidovudine was approved in the United States in 1986 and was the first treatment to be approved for HIV. It is on the World...
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HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment - Disease Control Priorities in ...  In 2005, close to 5 million new HIV infections and 3 million AIDS deaths occurred, ... The latter aims to provide antiretroviral drugs for 2 million HIV-infected ... the selection of optimal prevention programs to pair with treatment programs. ...... Achieving the WHO/UNAIDS Antiretroviral Treatment 3 by 5 Goal: What Will It Cost?
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Quinine, an old anti-malarial drug in a modern world: role in the ...  May 24, 2011 ... In light of recent research findings intravenous artesunate should be the first-line ... use of a chemical compound to treat an infectious disease[2]. ..... quinine treatment regimens have usually found unacceptably high failure ..... Artemether is as effective as quinine in treatment of cerebral malaria in children.