Medical research

Highlighting dual-therapy-based Helicobacter pylori eradication

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is an infectious bacterium that resides in the gastric mucosa and causes persistent gastric damage. H. pylori can cause chronic gastritis, peptic ulcers, and iron deficiency anemia. If left ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Harmful pollution boosting superbug 'silent pandemic'

Containing and cleaning up environmental pollution, especially in waterways, is crucial to controlling increasingly bullet-proof superbugs which could kill tens of millions by mid-century, a new UN report said Tuesday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Cholera outbreak kills 10 in S.Africa

An outbreak of cholera has killed at least 10 people near South Africa's capital of Pretoria, health authorities said Sunday, urging the public to be "extra vigilant".

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