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Decrypt the secret virus causing pandemic 1918
A group of genes that help the H1N1 virus enter the lungs and cause inflammation is the way they took tens of millions of people in the pandemic 90 years ago.
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Trial of treating cystic fibrosis on ... pigs
American scientists have created pigs capable of developing cystic fibrosis similar to humans and hope this is a step to speed up the process of treating the disease.
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Diagnosis by breath
The amount of certain molecules in human exhalation may be a sign of disease. The steam in the gas that people breathe out can store clues about your health, revealing m…
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Tobacco causes genetic changes
Recently, in the Journal of Cancer in the UK, researchers believe that the main harm to tobacco is to alter genes and cause lung cancer.
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Cancer killed 7.6 million people in 2007
In addition to nearly 8 million deaths, an additional 12 million people carry cancer. That is the data published by the American Cancer Organization yesterday.
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By 2030, 10 million people will die from smoking
According to the warning of the International Lung Association, by 2030, tobacco-related diseases could kill 10 million people a year, double the current figure. On Nove…
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Surgery for an unborn baby
On September 29, published scientific journal of Pregnancy Diagnosis and Therapy, for the first time in the world, the specialty doctors of Bonn University Hospital (Ger…
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Why treating tuberculosis fail?
In 1882 the German scientist R.Koch invented the bacillus that causes tuberculosis, from which the bacterium was named after him: BK. Until the middle of the 20th centur…
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Be wary of lung fluke
The fluke is a disease in which humans and many other animals such as dogs, cats, pigs, tigers, leopards, wolves, foxes, weasels, rats ... can become infected. People ca…
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Arsenic can be fatal after 20 years
The consequences of exposure to arsenic can occur after many years. Chilean researchers claim that the risk of lung and bladder cancer can occur 10 to 20 years after dri…
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New treatments help people with emphysema
Researchers are currently testing airway bypass treatment to make it easier for patients with emphysema to breathe.
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In 2020 can cancer in Asia increase suddenly?
By 2020, the rate of cancer in Asia will increase dramatically due to increased life expectancy and changing lifestyle. This will be a special health crisis for poor cou…
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The demand for anticancer drugs is rising in Asia
In the face of the risk of cancer explosion in the future, the demand for analgesics and anti-cancer drugs is also increasing in Asia.
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Early detection and treatment of TB for HIV-infected people
According to the report of the International Conference of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, the world has one third of the population infected with TB; in which, 11 millio…
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More than half a century living with artificial lungs
57 years ago, Dianne Odell contracted polio (a viral infection that caused spinal cord inflammation and paralysis). Since then she had to rely entirely on artificial lun…