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Health experts say it has potential to greatly improve treatment of the respiratory disease. An experimental test that can diagnose tuberculosis in less than two hours, making only one doctor visit necessary before treatment starts, is being hailed as a potentially significant advance against a disease that kills nearly 2 million people annually, most of them in developing countries.
"This is a very important discovery," said infectious disease expert Dr. Marc Siegel, an associate professor of medicine at New York University. "This could be an important tool worldwide, and even here in the United States."

Small Increase in Testosterone Levels in Men's Blood After Exposure to Plastic Chemical. Men who are exposed to high levels of the controversial plastic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) may show a small, but significant increase in blood levels of the male sex hormone testosterone, a study shows. These testosterone levels still remained within the normal range.

ImmunoGen Inc.’s failure to win an accelerated U.S. review for its cancer drug sent shares down the most in eight years, and may signal delays for biotechnology companies led by Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc., analysts say.
ImmunoGen shares plunged 36 percent to $5.36 at 2 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market composite trading after the Food and Drug Administration rejected a request from its partner Roche Holding AG to consider clearing the breast-cancer drug trastuzumab-DM1 based on results from mid-stage human trials.

An FDA advisory panel today overwhelmingly rejected the application of Jazz Pharmaceuticals for the approval sodium oxybate (Xyrem) for the treatment of fibromyalgia.
The drug is chemically similar to GHB, widely considered a date-rape drug. Approving it for such a large patient population -- 5 million people are estimated to suffer from fibromyalgia -- would risk flooding the streets with a pharmaceutical-grade version of the highly controlled substance.

The destructive effects of illicit anabolic steroids on heart function, as well as the helpful effects of chocolate consumption, may be widely assumed by physicians and patients. But two new studies -- published in the American Heart Assn.'s journal Circulation: Heart Failure -- actually deliver the evidence.

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Alzheimer's disease can be accurately predicted by analyzing biomarkers in spinal fluid, Belgium researchers have found.
A protein signature was found in the cerebrospinal fluid of 90 per cent of people with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and 72 per cent of people with mild cognitive impairment or MCI, a disorder that often progresses to Alzheimer's. The two proteins were found in samples from people with Alzheimer's nearly 100 per cent of the time, researchers say.