Immunology
- What Ebola Taught Us About Responding To Outbreaks Like Zika Virus
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When Ebola hysteria broke out in the United States in 2014, mainstream media got a little crazy. While one person was afflicted, 28,000 people got heart disease with far less fanfare. Meanwhile, the National Institutes of Health engaged in political theat ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2016 - 4:46pm
- Microbirthing: 'Vaginal Seeding' A Growing Fad, But There's No Evidence Of Benefit
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Microbirthing, which involves taking a swab from the mother's vagina and wiping this over the baby's mouth, eyes, face and skin shortly after birth by Cesarean section, is a growing fad, but there is no evidence this 'vaginal seeding' ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2016 - 7:25am
- Microbirthing: Questions Over Safety Of Slathering Newborns In Vaginal Fluids
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A new editorial warns that newborns may develop infections from exposure to vaginal bacteria, and suggest that encouraging breast feeding and avoiding unnecessary antibiotics may be a much better idea for creating a healthy immune system in infants. The t ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2016 - 7:23am
- Hydrolyzed Infant Milk Formula Doesn't Prevent Allergies Or Autoimmune Disorders
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Hydrolyzed infant milk formula doesn't protect against allergic or autoimmune disorders, finds a new study. Allergic and autoimmune disease diagnoses have increased in prevalence in many countries and are leading causes of chronic illness among young ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2016 - 7:56am
- What Caused Angola's First Yellow Fever Outbreak In Three Decades
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The World Health Organisation has declared the yellow fever outbreak in Angola a grade 2 emergency.This means that it can have moderate public health consequences. This requires an emergency support team run from the organizations regional office providin ...
Article - The Conversation - Apr 5 2016 - 4:17pm
- The Public Health Cost Balloon Due To Hepatitis B Among Refugees In Germany
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A new study presented today demonstrates the potential challenge posed to public health systems across Europe as a result of the prevalence of Hepatitis B among new refugee populations. With nearly 1,000,000 asylum applications lodged in Germany alone la ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2016 - 7:52pm
- Gut Microbiome And Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics Correlated To Worsened Complications In Transplant Patients
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Some broad-spectrum antibiotics that disrupt the gut microbiome may raise the risk of complications from stem cell transplantation, according to a new study evaluating data from more than 850 transplant patients, as well as from mice. The findings suggest ...
Article - News Staff - May 19 2016 - 12:39pm
- Gay Men In Small Canadian Cities Less Likely To Get HIV Tests
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Gay men who live outside major Canadian cities are less likely to get an HIV test than their metropolitan counterparts, according to a survey which also finds that the lower testing rates are likely connected to internalized feelings of homophobia and a r ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2016 - 10:24am
- Zika: Science Confident In GM Mosquitoes But Activists Keep Florida Residents In A Panic
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A few years ago, there were concerns about Dengue in Florida. This plight on humanity is carried by a small number of mosquitoes that have no ecological value of any kind, they are just disease carriers that have somehow survived evolution. Pesticides ob ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2016 - 5:44am
- 75 Percent Of Patients With STD Symptoms Got Antibiotics But Later Tested Negative
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If we want to cut down on antibacterial resistance, we should certainly stop buying that stupid hand soap, but we should also stop doing symptom-based medicine when it comes to sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs), which the regular medical community aban ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2016 - 10:24am