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The pregnant patient was first confused, then unresponsive. All of a sudden, she started to shake.
Sep 4, 2013
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Medical research
Microneedle patch could replace standard tuberculosis skin test
Each year, millions of people in the United States get a tuberculosis skin test to see if they have the infection that still affects one third of the world's population. But the standard diagnostic test is difficult to give, ...
Aug 26, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Research team collaborate to save the bacon
A research team from the University of Missouri and Kansas State University has been working to find a cure for a specific virus that affects pigs and costs the hog industry $800 million annually. In their latest study, the ...
Jul 23, 2013
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Diabetes
Interspecies transplant works in first step for new diabetes therapy
(Medical Xpress)—In the first step toward animal-to-human transplants of insulin-producing cells for people with type 1 diabetes, Northwestern Medicine scientists have successfully transplanted islets, the cells that produce ...
Jul 12, 2013
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Mayo Clinic researchers study how body can repair itself
At Mayo Clinic's Center for Regenerative Medicine, physicians and researchers have a dazzling array of tools at their fingertips: transplants, genomics, computerized data analysis and biomedical engineering. But the core ...
Jul 10, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers launch novel investigation into tuberculosis transmission
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at Colorado State University are launching the most realistic study ever conducted into how transmission of the tuberculosis pathogen triggers infectious disease, an investigation expected to ...
Jun 18, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Experimental vaccine shows promise against TB meningitis
A team of Johns Hopkins researchers working with animals has developed a vaccine that prevents the virulent TB bacterium from invading the brain and causing the highly lethal condition TB meningitis, a disease that disproportionately ...
Jun 11, 2013
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Health
Homeless and abused children benefit from animal-assisted therapy
(Medical Xpress)—There were almost 32,000 substantiated cases of severe abuse, neglect and violence in Australia last year with some children dying as a result. According to the Australian Institute of Criminology, the ...
May 31, 2013
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Ferrets, pigs susceptible to H7N9 avian influenza virus
Chinese and U.S. scientists have used virus isolated from a person who died from H7N9 avian influenza infection to determine whether the virus could infect and be transmitted between ferrets. Ferrets are often used as a mammalian ...
May 23, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study identifies influenza viruses circulating in pigs and birds that could pose a risk to humans
In the summer of 1968, a new strain of influenza appeared in Hong Kong. This strain, known as H3N2, spread around the globe and eventually killed an estimated 1 million people.
May 10, 2013
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