Immunology

Academic Hospitals Show 100 Percent Increase In MRSA Over 5 Years

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections doubled at U.S. academic medical centers between 2003 and 2008, according to a new report published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. MRSA infections, which cannot be treated with ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2012 - 4:30am

DNA Vaccines: The Future Of Disease Control

Right now, we protect people and animals against diseases by inoculating them with vaccines based on real infectious agents- but that brings risk of reinfection and the expense of cultivating and handling deadly viruses and bacteria. The future may mean DN ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2012 - 6:00am

Immune Response For Rabies Discovered In The Amazon

Our immune systems are funny things. An American traveling to Taiwan, for example, might be warned to get a hepatitis vaccine- unless they grew up on a farm. Rabies is even scarier.  If you are bitten by an unknown animal, it requires a series of painful i ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 2 2012 - 11:22am

CDC On Vaccines: Measles Cases Highest Since 1996

The anti-vaccination culture is making headway.  CDC has reported 17 outbreaks and 222 measles cases from 211, mostly in unvaccinated people- the highest since 1996. To identify areas of under-vaccination for measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases, ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 24 2012 - 9:18am

Celiac: The Trendy Disease For Rich White People

Are you white and a little resentful that black people get their own cool disease, sickle cell anemia?  There is good news for you. Celiac disease is all the latest rage and you can be any color at all and claim it. How do you know if you are gluten intole ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 15 2017 - 6:33pm

Celiac: My Trendy Experience

I am white. I am liberal. I went to a good college, but some might argue that I didn't get a good education. Certainly I like to study science to this day. Let me tell a medical story I went through which might be germane to a blog by Hank, " Ce ...

Article - Doug Sweetser - Aug 29 2012 - 4:14pm

HCV1 Antibody Prevents Infection By Hepatitis C Virus

Researchers have found that a human monoclonal antibody developed by MassBiologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) protected chimpanzees from hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in a dose-dependent manner. The study was conducted at ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2012 - 6:53pm

Evidence Of The Importance Of Vaccines: Wasik And Murphy's Rabid

According to WHO, " Although it is a vaccine-preventable disease, rabies still poses a significant public health problem in many countries in Asia and Africa where 95% of human deaths occur even though safe, effective vaccines for both human and veter ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Sep 3 2012 - 8:55am

Pyridomycin: Natural Antibiotic Clobbers Tuberculosis Bacterium

A natural product secreted by a soil bacterium may lead to a new drug to treat tuberculosis, report scientists in a new study.  Pyridomycin, a natural antibiotic produced by the bacterium Dactylosporangium fulvum, has been shown to be active against many o ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2012 - 6:30pm

GM Maize Causes Tumors In Rats? Here Is How Experts Responded

A study in Food and Chemical Toxicology into the health effect of a GM-tolerant maize crop and the herbicide Roundup suggested lab rats developed mammary tumors and were more likely to die prematurely. Science Media Centre issued a press release with some ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 21 2012 - 9:55am