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Child asthma rate down with less smoking
CBC.ca Asthma rates are down for young children in Canada, and researchers are crediting reduced exposure to smoking at home as one of the reasons. … |
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Malta has low rate of asthma deaths – Malta Independent Online
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Malta has low rate of asthma deaths
Malta Independent Online Every year there are between one and four deaths due to asthma in Malta, a figure which can partly be put down to the fact that health … |
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NIH-Funded Study Finds Early HAART during TB Treatment Boosts Survival Rate in People Co-Infected with HIV and TB
A clinical trial in Cambodia has found it possible to prolong the survival of untreated HIV-infected adults with very weak immune systems and newly diagnosed tuberculosis (TB) by starting anti-HIV therapy two weeks after beginning TB treatment, rather than waiting eight weeks, as has been standard. This finding by scientists co-funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis, brings physicians closer to optimizing the treatment of severely immunosuppressed individuals with HIV-TB co-infection. The findings were presented today at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna by principal investigators Francois-Xavier Blanc, M.D., Anne E. Goldfeld, M.D., and Sok Thim, M.D.
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