Willem Johan Kolff
1911-
Dutch-American physician who is best known for inventing the artificial kidney, or dialysis machine, in Nazi-occupied Holland. His original dialysis machine was ingeniously co...
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Tuberculosis
Definition
Tuberculosis (pronounced too-BUR-kyoo-LOH-siss), or TB, is a contagious disease of the lungs that can spread to other parts of the body and may be fatal. TB is caused by a micr...
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is a potentially fatal contagious disease that can affect almost any part of the body but is mainly an infection of the lungs. It is caused by a bacterial microorganism,...
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease of the lungs caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In the mid-nineteenth century, about one-fourth of the mortality rate was attri...
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is a serious infectious disease caused by the rod-shaped bacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which lodge in the lungs and destroy lung tissue. Sometimes called consumption,...
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Tuberculosis
A chronic, infectious disease primarily attacking the lungs.
Tuberculosis (TB) is an chronic, infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that primarily attacks the lungs. The...
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Willem Johan Kolff was born in Leiden, the Netherlands, on February 14, 1911, the son of Adriana (de Jonge) and Jacob Kolff, a doctor who ran a tuberculosis sanatorium. After graduating from medical s...
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Willem Johan Kolff was born in Leiden, the Netherlands, on February 14, 1911, the son of Adriana (de Jonge) and Jacob Kolff, a doctor who ran a tuberculosis sanatorium. After graduating from medical s...
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In the following excerpt, Moorman speculates on the possible connection between tuberculosis and literary genius.
Disregarding certain mythological references, including the vague, symptomatic pict...
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In the following essay, Latimer observes that in works by such authors as Thomas Mann and Edgar Allan Poe characters afflicted with tuberculosis are associated with erotic and artistic qualities.
W...
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BEIJING, Dec 19 (Reuters) - China is not doing enough to
fight tuberculosis and should not rest on its laurels with
successes achieved to date, the health minister warned in an
official newspaper ...
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The global rate of tuberculosis infections has leveled off, public health officials said Thursday, offering a glimmer of hope for the first time since the disease's spread was declared a global eme...
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Nov 7 (Reuters) - International experts begin meeting on
Thursday in Cape Town to discuss the problem of mounting
resistance to tuberculosis drugs and the growing threat of
drug-resistant forms of...
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The Netherlands pledged Thursday to invest euro30 million ($38 million) to fight tuberculosis amid concerns about a deadly, drug-resistant new form of the disease, three nonprofit groups said....
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Kathmandu (dpa) - Nepal's dwindling population of endangered Asian
elephants, already under threat from expanding human settlements, is
faced with danger from tuberculosis, ...
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The European Union will ask all member states to draft action plans to prevent the spread of tuberculosis, as a new drug-resistant form of the disease is becoming an increasing threat, the EU healt...
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Dusseldorf (dpa) - Tourists on self-organised trips to the world's
poorer countries should be aware of the heightened risk of
contracting tuberculosis (TB), experts in Germa...
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More than 130,000 lives could be saved if the world implements a two-year strategy to stop drug-resistant tuberculosis, the World Health Organization and partners said.Officials are concerned that ...
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Willem Johan Kolff
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
Willem Johan Kolff
Lewis J. Moorman
China warns against complacency about tuberculosis
