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Experimental cancer drug could streamline standard tuberculosis treatment and prevent post-TB lung disease
An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) ...
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Study Suggests Experimental Cancer Drug Could Streamline Standard Tuberculosis Treatment and Prevent Post-TB Lung Disease
In a Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study, the addition of navitoclax to the standard TB treatment significantly increased ...
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Company fined £2.5m following uncontrolled acid releases
The first incident on 6 January 2020 resulted in an uncontrolled release of hydrochloric acid from three chemical storage tanks. Three hundred thousand litres of the substance was released via poorly ...
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Sea Lion Bites Surfer Amid One of the Worst Outbreaks of Domoic Acid Poisoning That California Wildlife Rescuers Can Remember
Volunteers with the Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute in Santa Barbara, California, rescue a sick sea lion that's likely suffering from domoic acid poisoning. David Swanson / AFP via ...
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Tuberculosis on the Rise Again in the United States
WEDNESDAY, March 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Preliminary data released this month by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that more than 10,300 tuberculosis (TB ...
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India cracks the TB code, maps 10,000 genome strains to enhance treatment
tubercolosis M. tubercolosis causes TB but mutates very fast, making it drug-resistant Genome sequencing can help create personalised medicine for TB patients Tuberculosis (TB) is one of India’s most ...