infectious diseases
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Many of these variants were linked to the interferon-gamma signaling pathway, a key part of the immune system that helps protect the body against infectious diseases.
From Science Daily • Jun. 14, 2026
One such device is the Cube, a transparent "self-contained treatment unit for highly infectious diseases" that allows a patient to receive medical treatment without direct contact from medical staff.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
His Gates Foundation, one of the largest in the world, with an $89 billion endowment, has paved the way on global health and development efforts, including in the fight against childhood mortality and infectious diseases.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
“The National Institutes of Health was previously, and for decades, the biggest funder of biomedical research against infectious diseases and other threats to public health globally,” Herder said.
From Salon • May 30, 2026
It is what physicians used to be engaged in at the bedside of patients with diphtheria, meningitis, poliomyelitis, lobar pneumonia, and all the rest of the infectious diseases that have since come under control.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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