Immunology
- Ménière's Disease: New Insight Into Rare Inner Ear Condition
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Ménière's Disease is a rare condition affecting the inner ear. It can cause tinnitus, hearing loss, vertigo attacks and a feeling of pressure deep within the ear and is a long term but non-fatal illness, making it low profile in scientific community ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2014 - 6:30pm
- Antibiotics Improve Health Of Children In Developing Countries
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Antibiotics improve growth in children at risk of undernourishment in low and middle income countries, according to a literature review in the British Medical Journal. Malnutrition in early childhood, reflected in poor growth, is the cause of nearly half ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2014 - 7:30pm
- New MRSA Superbug In Brazil
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An international research team has identified a new superbug that caused a bloodstream infection in a Brazilian patient. The new superbug is part of a class of highly-resistant bacteria known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA, which i ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2014 - 12:39pm
- Malaria Pathogen's Cellular Skeleton Gets A Super-Microscope Look
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The tropical disease malaria is caused by the Plasmodium parasite. For its survival and propagation, Plasmodium requires a protein called actin. Scientists of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Germany used high-resolution structural bio ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2014 - 9:34pm
- Where Did The The Pandemic Flu Virus Of 1918 Come From?
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One of the foremost biomedical mysteries of the past century is the origin of the 1918 pandemic flu virus and its unusual severity, which resulted in a death toll of approximately 50 million people. A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 29 2014 - 12:30pm
- Antibodies Against Deadly MERS Identified
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Researchers writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) have identified natural human antibodies against the virus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a step toward developing treatments for the newly emerging and of ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 28 2014 - 7:00pm
- Would We Be Better Equipped To Survive The Bubonic Plague Today?
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The Bubonic Plague wiped put a giant swath of the affected populations, it was truly an Old Testament wrath-of-God phenomenon- but it also led to a wave of agricultural innovation and the creation of a middle class (How The Bubonic Plague Made Europe Grea ...
Article - News Staff - May 7 2014 - 5:21pm
- Gluten-Free Diet, Less Risk Of Type 1 Diabetes?
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Gluten-free fads are all the rage and a preliminary result by reseachers at the University of Copenhagen want to see if there are health benefits for people who don't have celiac disease. Their experiments on found that mouse mothers on a gluten-free ...
Article - News Staff - May 8 2014 - 4:30am
- Zinc Supplementation Boosts Immune System In Children- Review
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Zinc supplements reduce diarrhea, one of the biggest killers of kids under five, and other infections in malnourished children, according to a review in The Cochrane Library. Zinc is a micronutrient with important roles in growth and in the immune, nervo ...
Article - News Staff - May 14 2014 - 9:00pm
- Watch New AIDS Virus Particles Form
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Researchers have devised a way to watch newly forming AIDS virus particles emerge or "budd" from infected human cells. They have also found that a protein named ALIX gets involved during the final stages of virus replication, not earlier, as was ...
Article - News Staff - May 18 2014 - 9:30am