Immunology
- 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
- Early Introduction Peanut Allergy Prevention Strategy Doesn't Discourage Breastfeeding
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It's no surprise that the rise of peanut allergies correlates to the rise in helicopter parenting. Where kids once built up immunity by getting dirty and eating the foods their parents, a subset of modern parents schedule play dates, buy antibacteria ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 12 2016 - 7:00am
- Some Celiac Disease May Be Due To Viruses
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Celiac disease is a rare immune-based condition brought on by the consumption of gluten in genetically susceptible patients. In recent years a larger number of people have stated they are gluten sensitive or even celiac despite lack of a diagnosis, and man ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2016 - 7:58am
- Fighting Resistant Blood Cancer Cells In Leukemia
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Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) develops through chromosomal alterations in blood-forming cells of the bone marrow and usually occurs in older persons. Around 20 percent of adults diagnosed with leukemia suffer from this type of blood cancer. ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2016 - 6:00am
- HIV Epidemic Continues Among Gay Men- And Antiretroviral Medicine Could Be To Blame
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Despite two generations of prevention, awareness and treatment, gay and bisexual continue to have high levels of HIV infection, a new study led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows. ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2016 - 9:30am
- First Direct Evidence That A. Aegypti Mosquito Transmits Zika Virus In Mexico
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How does Zika get transmitted? In America, it seems to be sex, but in South America it is mosquitoes? While all three vectors are ecologically useless- they could be blasted out of existence with no impact at all anywhere- it is helpful to know which ones ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2016 - 7:00am
- Zika Infection Is Caused By One Virus Serotype, So One Vaccination Will Work On All Strains
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WHAT: Vaccination against a single strain of Zika virus should be sufficient to protect against genetically diverse strains of the virus, according to a study conducted by investigators from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 31 2016 - 10:30am
- New Method For Bone Marrow Transplants Without Using Chemotherapy
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Blood stem cell transplantation, widely known as bone marrow transplantation, is a powerful technique that potentially can provide a lifelong cure for a variety of diseases. But the procedure is so toxic that it is currently used to treat only the most cr ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2016 - 11:23am
- High And Low Levels Of HDL Cholesterol Linked To Premature Death
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Too much cholesterol used to be bad for you. Then some cholesterol was good for you. Now too little cholesterol is bad for you. A giant chunk of the public no longer trusts science, because scientists have not yet put epidemiology over with the social sci ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2016 - 6:05am
- Breast Milk Sugar May Protect Babies Against Group B Streptococcus
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A type of sugar found naturally in some women's breast milk may protect new born babies from infection with a potentially life threatening bacterium called Group B streptococcus. These bacteria are a common cause of meningitis in new borns and the le ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 27 2016 - 6:30am