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Stem Cells Spawn First Drug-Free Windpipe Transplant
sea-maid submitted, created time 3 days 5 minutes (www.bloomberg.com)
Doctors operating on a 30-year-old Colombian woman restored her ability to breathe freely with the world's first transplanted windpipe specially treated to prevent organ rejection.
The airway connecting Claudia Castillo Sanchez's left lung to her windpipe collapsed after a persistent tuberculosis infection, leaving her short of breath and unable to perform routine daily activities. Efforts to prop it open failed, leaving Spanish doctors two options: remove the lung or replace the airway using an experimental technique tried only in animals 
Tissue engineering triumph: Doctors transplant a trachea made from the patient's own stem cells
Darkfrog submitted, created time 3 days 19 hours (www.lancet.com)
The medical journal Lancet has just announced that doctors have performed the first successful trachea transplant using a trachea crafted from the patient's own stem cells. The New York Times is hailing this as a revolutionary step in regenerative medicine. The surgery took place in Barcelona this past June. Researchers from universities in Spain, Britain and Italy collaborated on the preparation. The patient's original trachea--actually one of her bronchi--had been damaged by severe tuberculosis.
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Antimicrobials: New drugs for an old scourge?
sea-maid submitted, created time 4 weeks 6 hours (www.nature.com)
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a serious problem worldwide. The causative agent, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is difficult to treat, in part because it can persist under hypoxic (low oxygen) conditions in a dormant form that has reduced sensitivity to many antibiotics. Rao and colleagues report that de novo synthesis of ATP and maintenance of energized membranes are required for M. tuberculosis to survive in the dormant state. These findings could lead to the use or development of new drugs that target recalcitrant, dormant bacteria
Scientists: Global Warming May Spread "Deadly Dozen" Diseases
jerry submitted, created time 1 month 1 week (www.foxnews.com)
Bird flu is just one of eleven diseases that may worsen with global warming, scientists are warning. Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society have nicknamed twelve diseases the “deadly dozen” and say they are spreading across the globe and becoming dangerous to human an animal populations.
The other eleven diseases include babesiosis, cholera, ebola, lyme disease, plague, red tides, rift valley fever, sleeping sickness, tuberculosis, and yellow fever. Intestinal and external parasites are counted as one problem.
Ancient bones could yield TB clue
sea-maid submitted, created time 4 months 6 days (news.bbc.co.uk)
Researchers are using human remains from the ancient city of Jericho to study the evolution of tuberculosis. So far, the team out of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has found evidence of TB on several sets of 6000+ year-old bones that were collected during the thirties, forties, and fifties. They are also looking for leprosy, leishmania and malaria.
Coinfection of tuberculosis and HIV poses global threat
sea-maid submitted, created time 5 months 1 week (www.bmj.com)
The interaction between the twin pandemics of HIV and TB could soon become a "threat to global health security," particularly with the emergence of almost untreatable strains of TB, experts at a United Nations forum have said.
sea-maid submitted, created time 6 months 2 weeks (www.sciencemag.org)
This is about an American association of physicial anthropologists meeting,which
mainly talk about the thesis "Tuberculosis Jumped From Humans to Cows, Not Vice Versa."
At the meeting, a DNA study of 10 species of mycobacteria showed that early humans were infected with strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which cause TB, long before they began herding cattle. That suggests that it was humans who transmitted the disease to bovids and other animals
Tuberculosis's Battle ---New Strategy
Sue Wu submitted, created time 7 months 3 hours (www.sciam.com)
Israeli researchers find that feeding nutrients to dormant bacteria gives them a one hour window in which to kill them with antibiotics.
Good News: New Vaccines for Malaria and Other Diseases Are on the Way
siemens submitted, created time 7 months 3 weeks (www.sciencedaily.com)
Researchers in Colombia describe a new strategy for designing the next generation of synthetic vaccines that could lead to more effective treatments for fighting malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS and other infectious diseases. These conditions kill more than 17 million people around the world each year.
Drug-resistant tuberculosis on the rise
sumsung submitted, created time 8 months 3 weeks (www.nature.com)
Drug-resistant tuberculosis is on the rise in much of the world, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) report released yesterday. The WHO estimates that of the 9 million new cases of tuberculosis each year, about 5% are resistant to the standard treatment
Tuberculosis exposure feared on India-to-U.S. flight
Eric wu submitted, created time 10 months 2 weeks (www.reuters.com)
U.S. health officials are trying to track down 44 people who sat near a woman infected with a hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis aboard an airliner from India to determine whether they have been infected, authorities said on Friday.
TB-scarred Homo erectus skull found in Turkey
Darkfrog submitted, created time 11 months 4 days (www3.interscience.wiley.com)
The article discusses the way in which TB affected migrating populations. According to the article, examination of this skull supports the idea that as dark-skinned hominids moved into areas where the sun was less intense, they found themselves deficient in vitamin D, which affected their bones and immune systems.
It also got a writeup in the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/science/18skul.html?ref=science
Human Ancestor Preserved in Stone
snoopy submitted, created time 11 months 2 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
A hugely important discovery was found by workers at a travertine factory near Denizli, Turkey. They sawed a block of the limestone for tiles and discovered part of a human skull. Researchers says that it appears to be a long-sought species of human that lived 500,000 years ago, however, the fossil also reveals the earliest case of tuberculosis (TB).
TB's presence might provide clues about what this early human looked like and how it adapted to new habitats
The evolution of a killer---tuberculosis
jane2007 submitted, created time 11 months 3 weeks (www.nature.com)
The work suggests that if better tuberculosis surveillance programmes had been in place during the past decade in developing countries, antibiotic treatments could have been better tailored to patients, and the emergence of extensively drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis (XDR-TB) could have been delayed.
This article narrates the history and the current status of the killer--- tuberculosis. I think the difficulty or the mission is in the text too.
HIV and TB emerge as African epidemic
biosunny submitted, created time 1 year 2 weeks (www.upi.com)
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Cape Town, South Africa, is among the worst cities in the region affected by a epidemic of HIV and drug-resistant tuberculosis.
The BBC in Cape Town reported that children in the city’s slums are 100 times more likely to contract TB than elsewhere in the world.
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