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Tuesday 25 December 2007
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New Screening Strategy For Detection Of Chagas Disease In Children
A new targeted screening strategy could make the diagnosis and treatment of Chagas disease more feasible in low-resource settings, concludes a new study, publishing on December 26, 2007, in the open-access journal...
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Poor Americans In The United States Suffer Hidden Burden Of Parasitic And Other Neglected Diseases
Large numbers of the poorest Americans living in the United States are suffering from some of the same parasitic infections that affect the poor in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, says the Editor-in-Chief of PLoS...
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Oral Anti Diabetic Substance Discovered
Research in the Department of Biology at the Faculty of Science and Science Education of the University of Haifa has discovered a substance that may become an oral treatment for diabetes and its complications...
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