Update on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pneumocystis Pneumonia
Pneumocystis pneumonia was once considered a rare disease. However, in the 1980s, with the onset of the HIV epidemic, Pneumocystis prevalence increased dramatically.
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Non Communicable Diseases Hit The World's Poorest People
Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) are responsible for 8 million deaths in the world's poorest billion. NCDs - cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes - are no longer diseases of the wealthy.
These were among some of the key messages coming out of this week's event co -organised by the NCD Alliance1 and Partners in Health, running from March 2-3 in Boston, MA...
Vitamin D Deficiency Causes Deficits in Lung Function and Alters Lung Structure.
CONCLUSIONS: Vitamin D deficiency causes deficits in lung function which are primarily explained by differences in lung volume. This study is the first to provide direct mechanistic evidence for linking vitamin D deficiency and lung development which may explain the association between obstructive lung disease and vitamin D status.
Rapid Diagnosis of Tuberculosis and Multidrug Resistance by the Microscopic-Observation Drug-Susceptibility Assay.
CONCLUSIONS: Among predominantly HIV-infected TB suspects, MODS provided high sensitivity and specificity for rapid diagnosis of TB and MDR-TB. Given the high mortality from TB and MDR-TB and possibility for TB transmission, MODS should be considered for use in similar high HIV prevalence, resource-limited settings.
Asthma and COPD: Common Genes, Common Environments?
The Dutch hypothesis stipulated that asthma and COPD have common genetic and environmental risk factors (allergens, infections, smoking) in common, which ultimately lead to clinical disease depending on the timing and type of environmental exposures (3). Thus a particular group of shared genetic factors may lead to asthma when combined with specific environmental factors that are met at a certain stage in life, whereas combination with other environmental factors, or similar environmental factors at a different stage in life, this will lead toward COPD.
Multiple genes have been found for asthma and COPD. Next to genes unique to these diseases, some shared genetic risk f...