Five Interesting Facts About Tuberculosis
How much do you know about Tuberculosis? Here are some interesting facts and good to know.Contributor: Anca BuicePublished: Mar 26, 2014 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - March 26, 2014 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
Five Facts to Know About Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis Day is a universal day for people all over the world to help raise awareness about Tuberculosis. In honor of March 24th, I have put together a few facts about tuberculosis that you probably didn't know.Contributor: Zoya AslamPublished: Mar 26, 2014 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - March 26, 2014 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Update Satellite — 03-25-2014
Patients gone wild. Really wild. 70 year old Brookdale Hospital nurse Evelyn Lynch gets knocked to the ground by patient Kwincii Jones and has her head stomped. She was knocked unconscious and suffered severe facial fractures. Also underwent brain surgery, so it is likely she suffered a brain bleed or has brain swelling as well.
Congratulations to the antivaccination movement for increasing the worldwide incidence of pertussis and measles. Measles and mumps are now “crushing” the UK. Patients with “religious exemptions” to receiving vaccinations were reportedly the source of one recent California p...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - March 25, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs
Beer and bingo budget
You can say what you like about politicians…but deep, deep down, they’re all self-serving, money-grubbing, knee-jerking, U-turning bustards. It seems that here in Brit Land we have a particularly peculiar penchant for those that are also dullards and bores. But, at least, come budget time, they get their priorities right in terms of voter retention: no extra tax and beer nor bingo. And we get a new pound coin that looks ironically like the old threepenny bit we had until decimalisation. You know that era of endless food rationing, world wars, abject poverty, no national health service, no antibiotics nor vaccin...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - March 19, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Another DNA-Barcoded Program From GSK
Two more papers have emerged from GSK using their DNA-encoded library platform. I'm always interested to see how this might be working out. One paper is on compounds for the tuberculosis target InhA, and the other is aimed at a lymphocyte protein-protein target, LFA-1. (I've written about this sort of thing previously here, here, and here).
Both of these have some interesting points - I'll cover the LFA-1 work in another post, though. InhA, for its part, is the target of the well-known tuberculosis drug isoniazid, and it has had (as you'd imagine) a good amount of attention over the years, especially since it's not the cl...
Source: In the Pipeline - March 18, 2014 Category: Chemists Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: blogs
