Halitosis refers to foul or bad breath, which is not an uncommon condition. Unfortunately, most people who offend in this respect are completely unaware of their problem. Let's face it, bad breath is embarrassing.

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Allied Vision Technologies (AVT) says new imaging machine offers “100 per cent inspection” capability to help drugmakers meet quality rules. The system, which uses AVT's Marlin F-046B camera combined with software based on National Instruments' LabVIEW platform, can capture 80,000 images per hour using a short exposure time that prevents blurring.

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19th-century England one person in five died ofMycobacterium tuberculosis infection. The dramaticdecline in notifications and deaths reflects one of the greatmedical advances of that century. However, tuberculosisremains a common cause of death in the developing world.Eight million new clinical cases occur each year, leading to2 million deaths. One-third of the world's population isinfected with the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.

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Bacterial pneumonias, particularly Gram-negative infections,are common in neutropenic patients (e.g. followingbone marrow transplantation, or chemotherapy forleukaemia), particularly if the granulocyte count is lessthan 500 x 106/L, and may be associated with lifethreateningsepticaemia. The chest X-ray usually showslocalized shadowing, rather than diffuse infiltration.

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Acute bronchitis is common in smokers and in patientswith asthma, chronic bronchitis and emphysema. However,it also occurs in otherwise healthy individuals, usually dueto viral infections. In both groups, when bacterial infectionoccurs, the bacteria most often incriminated are Strep,pneumoniae or H. influenzae.

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Most upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) are viraland the majority of these are the results of infectionwith rhinoviruses of the picornavirus family. However,adenoviruses, coronaviruses, coxsackie viruses, echoviruses,influenza viruses, parainfluenza viruses and therespiratory syncytial virus (RSV) can all cause upper respiratorytract infections.

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These techniques are mainly used to diagnose and stagebronchogenic carcinoma, but occasionally are required toconfirm other malignancies (e.g. lymphoma) or to diagnosethe causes of adenopathy (e.g. sarcoidosis or tuberculosis).At mediastinoscopy an incision is made above thesuprasternal notch, the tissues anterior to the trachea aredissected and the mediastinoscope is inserted.

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Laser spine surgery (or particularly endoscopic spinal surgery) is the “gold standard,” in accordance with the International Society for Minimal Intervention in Spinal Surgery (ISMISS) and the International Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology (SICOT), for the surgical cure of back pain, lumbar, thoracic, and cervical disc herniations with radicular symptoms.

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Learn what type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis have in common with celiac disease. Then learn how these discovered similarities may lead to breakthroughs in treatments for all these conditions.

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Anxiety is real, real enough to have 100 million sufferers worldwide. There are many contemporary and conventional treatments regarding this disorder, and Stephen Taylor is one of those who believe that people should not let anxiety ruin their lives but can actually control it and have anxiety forever gone.

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