These study results will appear in the first issue for September of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, a publication of the American Thoracic Society.
While the influenza vaccination does provide protection against catching the flu virus, it has no major impact on death in elderly people. This finding is contrary to other [...]
Blood transfusion could transmit the prion disease known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. Prion diseases are also called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE). They occur in humans and animals, primarily affecting the central nervous system. They can be sporadic (spontaneous), familial (genetic/inherited) or acquired (transmitted by infection). Full article at EurekAlert.
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Prions proteins that are thought to cause a number of neuologic diseases in a variety of mammals. Prion diseases include Mad Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy), Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Fatal familial insomnia. Prion proteins are extremely abnormal variations of a protein that is normally present in the cells of mammals. The normal [...]
Controlling your own health by diagnosing and treating your own body with natural herbs is a very appealing idea but there’s always a catch. It seems that kids toys from China aren’t the only things with dangerous lead and heavy metal contaminants–your natural Ayurvedic herbal medicine from the US or India may have heavy metal [...]
From the July 31 online edition of the Journal Cell Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies may have found a way to avoid sweat and hard work but still get benefits similar to exercise. They have identified two biochemical pathways that are activated in response to exercise and can dramatically increase physical endurance.
Earlier [...]
From the August 2008 issue of the Journal Infection and Immunity: A very promising preventative measure against the bubonic plague.
Bubonic plague is transmitted by usually infected fleas. The bacteria Yersinia pestis in the fleas bite is the causative agent for bubonic and pneumonic plague. These can be highly contagious, the bubonic form of the disease [...]
Human blood transfusions save lives but expose the recipient to disease from the donors. Now the solution to this problem may have been solved by large scale production of real human blood using stem cells that can be free of viruses and other transfusion related problems.
The development “promises to provide an almost limitless supply suitable [...]
A researcher from Monash University in Australia has discovered that important appetite control cells in the human brain degenerate over time, leading to increased hunger and weight-gain as we grow older.
The study by Dr Zane Andrews, a neuroendocrinologist with Monash University’s Department of Physiology, has been published in Nature.
Dr Andrews discovered that appetite-suppressing cells [...]
Silver in various forms has been used to slow or stop the growth of harmful bacteria since the times of ancient Rome. Inventive researchers have applied this concept of silver use to breathing tubes for critically ill patients, to slow the growth of pneumonia causing bacteria. A study from the August 20 issue of JAMA [...]
38 Warao Indians have died in remote villages in Venezuela, and medical experts suspect an outbreak of rabies spread by bites from vampire bats.
Medical tests have yet to confirm the official cause, but their symptoms suggest rabies, according to two researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and other medical experts.
The two UC Berkeley [...]
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