Sentences with phrase «by tuberculosis»

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At 17, Mr. Tàpies suffered a near - fatal heart attack caused by tuberculosis.

By the end of the 1980s, almost all the Inuits in the area had left their nomadic lives behind in order to work in the mines run by Kablunauks (the Inuit word for Caucasians, meaning hairy eyebrows and bellies), a movement that was expedited by the tuberculosis epidemic.

Many years later, when that girl grows up (to be voiced in English by Emily Blunt), Jiro will meet her again and fall in love with her, only to see their future threatened by the tuberculosis epidemic that swept Japan between the two world wars.

This conclusion is supported by the fact that hemp seed was used to treat nutritional deficiencies brought on by tuberculosis, a severe nutrition blocking disease that causes the body to waste away.

Sandstorms and wind - driven salt frequently roar across the barren sea, and the local populace has been plagued by tuberculosis, cancer, and one of the highest rates of infant mortality in the world.

Concern for HIV / Aids is overshadowing the global threat presented by tuberculosis (TB), an MP has warned.

The second leading cause of death in women in that year was childbirth, topped only by tuberculosis.

Not exact matches

Governor Frank Briggs died of tuberculosis in the house in 1898, and a butler refused to sleep there claiming it was haunted by his spirit.

So far, the initiative has secured $ 124 million through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, which is financed primarily by governments.

Cycloserine, a drug used to treat dangerous multidrug - resistant tuberculosis, was just increased in price to $ 10,800 for 30 pills from $ 500 after its acquisition by Rodelis Therapeutics.

If you live somewhere like India where tuberculosis is transferred by spitting, I would consider spitting on the sidewalk to be immoral.

Although both «lungs» of the Church of the Christ have experienced the tuberculosis of iconoclasm (indeed, the very term «iconoclasm» comes from the struggle of the Greek Church against the attempts of a Greek emperor to ban icons), the Greek version of iconoclasm was much influenced not only by imperial fiat but also by the surrounding sea of Muslim culture, whereas the iconoclasm of Western Puritanism was born out of Calvin's reliance on Old Testament Law.

«Today are the first faith - based organization to be a participant in the global fund,» Bickerton said,» and so we want to use that as a challenge to all other faith - based organizations to come on board because we're not going to solve AIDS tuberculosis and malaria all by ourselves.»

Not even Weil herself could subsist on the thin broth of pure spirit; in 1943, not yet thirty - five, she died of tuberculosis aggravated by self - starvation, an eerie presentiment of today's Europe wasting away from infertility and anomie.

That is why locals in Africa have used this superfruit's pulp powder for centuries to treat high fever symptoms induced by diseases such as malaria or tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis test (if MD requires)- just like for adults, baby will be injected with an inactivated serum and you'll need to monitor their skin for any bumps or swelling which could indicate a positive test requiring immediate follow up by your doctor.

Exclusion criteria: multiparous women, premature baby (born before the 37th week), low birth weight baby (< 2500 g), admission to neonatal intensive care unit or transfer to another hospital, medical condition which could permanently or temporarily counter-indicate breastfeeding (e.g. acute tuberculosis, psychosis, acute phase hepatitis A or B, hepatitis C, HIV), women who did not speak Italian, and women who could not be contacted by telephone).

The number of tuberculosis cases in New York City suddenly jumped by 10 percent last year — the largest increase since 1992, according to the Health Department.

This much was recently brought to the fore by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in its 2016 «Global Tuberculosis Report» which ranked Nigeria fourth behind India, Indonesia and China as one of the six countries which accounted for 60 per cent of the total TB burden.

Would - be immigrants suffering from tuberculosis would not be allowed to settle in the UK, under proposals announced by the Conservative Party.

The rise of tuberculosis (TB) in Zimbabwe during the socio - economic crisis of 2008 - 9 has been linked to widespread food shortage, according to a new study led by Canadian researchers from the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health published in PLOS ONE.

Created by artist Alicia Watkins of Watty's Wall Stuff and Cross Stitchery, these handcrafted microbes and germs are based on real scientific images of a variety of unpleasant maladies including rabies, tuberculosis, syphilis and the common cold.

Orme and his research team in Fort Collins investigated whether the existing vaccine for TB, which goes by the acronym BCG (bacille Calmette - Guerin), worked equally well against different clinical strains of tuberculosis.

A Johnson & Johnson research team identified a new compound known as R207910 that kills the M. tuberculosis bacterium by inhibiting the cell's energy - producing machinery.

They found that tuberculosis, first spread to the Indians by gold miners in the 1970s and 1980s, had infected 6 % of the tribe — an incidence 100 times higher than surrounding areas, the researchers say.

In 1992, after doctors started reporting cases of tuberculosis among the Yanomami, Sousa and researchers from Brazil and France traveled into the Amazonian forest to study the group — a 5 - day trip by boat from Manaus, Brazil.

Wild boar and red deer are key hosts of bovine tuberculosis — a chronic, infectious disease mainly caused by Mycobacterium bovis — in southern Europe, with the incidence of TB in these animals particularly high in certain areas of Spain.

TB disease is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is spread through the air, and can lead to violent cough attacks involving spitting up blood.

The drug works by inhibiting an enzyme used by Mycobacterium tuberculosis to replicate and spread throughout the body.

MRI scan of tuberculosis meningitis patient reveals a loss of blood supply to part of the brain (white patch highlighted by the white arrow).

This tuberculosis initiative is just one of many programs supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a philanthropic organization based in Seattle that invests in global health.

Besides, the panel said, a plan WHO and the six countries of the Greater Mekong launched in 2015 to eliminate P. falciparum malaria by 2025 should halt the spread of resistant strains, and the project just got a $ 242 million boost from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Modelling produced by researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has found that the only effective potential Bovine Tuberculosis (TB) control strategies are badger culling, cattle testing, controlling cattle movement, and ceasing the practice of housing farm cattle together during winter.

Paleopathologists can also calculate growth rates by measuring bones of people of different ages, examine teeth for enamel defects (signs of childhood malnutrition), and recognize scars left on bones by anemia, tuberculosis, leprosy, and other diseases.

Within the next two weeks, it will likely become the first of hundreds to be shot dead as part of a pilot cull licensed by the UK government to curb the spread of bovine tuberculosis to cattle — even though badgers are legally protected.

Measles — along with tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and poliomyelitis — is one of the six childhood «killer diseases» targeted by World Health Organization (WHO) mass immunization programs.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a public - private partnership backed by the U.S., France, Japan, the Gates Foundation and others, has had some recent funding troubles and allegations of corruption, and it recently underwent some major restructuring.

However, in a few developing countries, model TB - control programmes supported by the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease may be limiting the spread of TB.

Chemical biologist Carolyn Bertozzi, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Stanford University, and colleagues tested the new molecule on mucus - saliva mixtures hacked up by 16 people with tuberculosis.

These blood tests are inaccurate because they rely on antibody detection of antigens produced by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), the organism that causes tuberculosis.

While the incidence of highly drug - resistant tuberculosis in the United States is still negligible, the disease is gaining ground in countries where large numbers of people have immune systems weakened by HIV.

Cases of drug - resistant tuberculosis are forecasted to increase in the four high burden countries (India, the Philippines, Russia, and South Africa) between 2000 and 2040, with the upturn likely to be a result of increased transmission of drug - resistant tuberculosis between people, rather than by strains acquiring resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs, according to a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

The study, conducted by Louis Grandjean of Imperial College London, and colleagues, compared new tuberculosis cases among household contacts of tuberculosis patients in South Lima and Callao, Peru to determine the relative fitness of MDRTB versus drug - susceptible tuberculosis.

Then Mays, along with molecular biologist G. Michael Taylor of Imperial College in London, confirmed that the scars were signs of TB by identifying traces of gene sequences from Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the 2300 - year - old remains.

Now, research conducted by Rockefeller scientists under the direction of Seth Darst, the Jack Fishman Professor, and Elizabeth Campbell, a senior research associate in Darst's laboratory, offers hope for a new and potent weapon against tuberculosis.

Three areas in Russia now have the highest rate of multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis ever recorded, according to a new report released today by the World Health Organization.

n many developing countries, a significant fraction of the tuberculosis burden comes potentially from the tuberculosis bacteria carried by animals, essentially cattle.

Our findings show that drug - resistant tuberculosis cases in these countries are expected to rise over the next two decades, and that fewer cases over time will be caused by acquired drug resistance during tuberculosis treatment.

By explaining how the drug operates, their research might allow others to design new antibiotics that could in fact be used to treat tuberculosis patients — and might even work on other bugs.