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(Emory University) The first trench-to-bench field guide for tracking wild primate infectious diseases provides integrated information that could help scientists identify infection patterns and prevent epidemics, says Emory University scientist and lead author. The work was published Nov. 17 in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology's Yearbook of Physical Anthropology....
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(JAMA and Archives Journals) It appears that for the first time human granulocytic anaplasmosis, an emerging tick-borne infectious disease found in the US and Europe, has been identified in China and apparently was transmitted from person to person, according to a study in the Nov. 19 issue of JAMA....
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(American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene) Clinton Foundation researcher to present drug forecasting method for anti-malarial treatments....
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(American College of Physicians) The following are news release and two summaries of studies being published in the Nov. 18, 2008, issue of Annals of Internal Medicine....
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(Canadian Medical Association Journal) A study of Chinese adolescents living in mainland China, Hong Kong and Canada suggests that asthma may be influenced by environmental factors as well as genetics....
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(Public Library of Science) In recent years, the use of a three-day course of an antimalarial treatment called ACT (artemisinin-based combination therapy) in over 40 countries that face endemic malaria has shown great success in curing this deadly disease. In a policy paper in this week's PLoS Medicine, a team ...
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(American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene) The ASTMH annual meeting is Dec. 7-11 in New Orleans....
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(Cardiff University) A new research study underway at Cardiff University could see a decrease in the rates of treatment failure among patients with end-stage kidney disease. Experts in the Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Interdisciplinary Research Group at the School of Medicine have secured more than £230,000 from the 'Renal Discoveries ...
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(University of Michigan) Developed more than 200 years ago and found in households around the world, chlorine bleach is among the most widely used disinfectants, yet scientists never have understood exactly how the familiar product kills bacteria....
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(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) Two clones of highly antibiotic-resistant organism strains, which previously had only been identified in the United States, are now causing serious sickness and death in several Colombian cities including the capital Bogotá, say researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at ...
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(American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene) "Airport malaria" is a term coined by researchers to explain the more recent spread of malaria to areas such as the United States and Europe, which some scientists credit to warmer climate changes....
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(Purdue University) A Purdue University researcher has created a compound that prevents replication of the virus that causes SARS and could lead to a treatment for the disease. In addition to its ability to block the SARS virus, the molecular compound that inhibits the virus provides new insights into a ...
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(Oxford University Press) A high proportion of people are not using condoms when they have sex with a new partner, according to a new study of heterosexual partnerships among British men and women, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology. Among people in their 30s and 40s, and in partnerships ...
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(Rice University) Can scientists create a designer drug that forces viruses to mutate themselves out of existence? A new study by Rice University bioengineers could help make it happen. The study, which will appear in Physical Review E, offers the most comprehensive mathematical analysis to date of the mechanisms that ...
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(Medical College of Georgia) Cancer cells are already stressed by the fast pace they require to grow and spread and scientists believe a little more stress just may kill them....
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(University of California - Los Angeles) Immune cells lose the ability to divide as they age because a part of their chromosomes known as a telomere becomes progressively shorter with cell division. As a result, its disease fighting ability is compromised. A new study finds that a chemical from the ...
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(University of California - San Francisco) The team lead by Drs. Mario Ostrowski, of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine, and Douglas Nixon, of the Division of Experimental Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, has discovered that a molecule called Tim-3 is present at high levels on ...
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(Rockefeller University Press) In HIV-infected patients, the body's immune system is unable to fight off the virus. A new study to be published online on Nov. 10 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine shows that T cells in HIV-infected individuals express a protein called TIM-3, which inactivates their virus killing ...
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(University of Michigan Health System) It's a leading cause of death, but no one knows for sure how and why it happens. It's a major source of health care costs, adding days or weeks to the hospital stays of millions of people. But no one fully understands how best to ...
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(University of Melbourne) Ninety years after Australian scientists began their race to stop the spread of Spanish flu in Australia, University of Melbourne researchers are hoping records from the 1918 epidemic may hold the key to preventing future deadly pandemic outbreaks....
