News tagged with encephalitis

Anti-infective drug shortages pose threat to public health and patient care

Shortages of key drugs used to fight infections represent a public health emergency and can put patients at risk, according to a review published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and available online. Frequent anti-infective shortages can substantially alter clinical care and may ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

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Virus takes memories from cellist but leaves music

(Medical Xpress) -- At a recent meeting at the Society for Neuroscience in Washington DC, researchers revealed a case of herpesviral encephalitis that had destroyed areas of a 71-year-old cellist’s brain. The man, known ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Alzheimer's vaccine triggers brain inflammation when brain amyloid burden is high

Patients with Alzheimer's disease who are in the early stages of their illness will likely benefit most from vaccine therapies now being tested in a number of human clinical trials, say researchers from Georgetown University ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Encephalitis kills at least 430 in India

At least 430 people, mainly children, have died from an outbreak of encephalitis in a deeply neglected region of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Saturday.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

17 infants die in 48 hours at 1 Indian hospital

(AP) -- At least 17 infants have died in the last 48 hours at a government-run hospital in eastern India and the state is investigating, media reported Thursday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New protein regulates water in the brain to control inflammation

A new protein, called aquaporin-4, is making waves and found to play a key role in brain inflammation, or encephalitis. This discovery is important as the first to identify a role for this protein in inflammation, opening ...

Medicine & Health / Research

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China mass measles vaccination plan sparks outcry

(AP) -- China's plans to vaccinate 100 million children and come a step closer to eradicating measles has set off a popular outcry that highlights widening public distrust of the authoritarian government ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Encephalitis kills 215 in India, toll expected to soar

At least 215 people, mostly children, have died in an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in an impoverished region of northern Indian and the death toll is likely to soar, officials said Saturday.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mental problems in an old person do not always mean Alzheimer's disease

The case of an elderly woman who had mental problems associated with Alzheimer's disease, but turned out to have treatable limbic encephalitis, is detailed in a Case Report in this week's edition of The Lancet. The case i ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Unexpected findings in patients with limbic encephalitis will change disease diagnosis and classification

New findings indicate that the target of autoantibodies that are associated with limbic encephalitis is LGI1 - a protein involved in fine-tuning of neuronal synapses. The results suggest that testing for these antibodies ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New study casts doubt over ME virus link

A new study published in the British Medical Journal today casts doubt on recent claims that a human retrovirus known as XMRV is linked to chronic fatigue syndrome or ME (myalgic encephalitis).

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 26, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Solving the mystery of the dying bats

Deep in a cave in Mifflin County, Pa., surrounded by icicles and tilted slabs of rock, DeeAnn Reeder shone her headlamp on a tiny bat.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3

New effort probes how two groups of viruses cause disease

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University is leading a team of researchers in a federally funded effort aimed ultimately at developing better vaccines and antiviral drugs against two types of disease-causing viruses ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First human gets new antibody aimed at rabies virus

MassBiologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School today announced the beginning of a Phase 1 clinical trial, testing the safety and activity of a human monoclonal antibody (MAB) developed to neutralize the rabies ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Do Chicago’s suburbs hold the key to understanding West Nile virus?

(PhysOrg.com) -- When Tony Goldberg is not whacking through the brush of central Africa, one of the world's great cauldrons of emerging human and animal disease, he is scouring another disease hot spot: the ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Encephalitis

Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the brain. Encephalitis with meningitis is known as meningoencephalitis. Symptoms include headache, fever, confusion, drowsiness, and fatigue. More advanced and serious symptoms include seizures or convulsions, tremors, hallucinations, and memory problems.

For more information about Encephalitis, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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