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New technology shows promise against resistant staph infections

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have combined their revolutionary new drug-delivery system with a powerful antimicrobial agent to treat potentially deadly drug-resistant staph infections ...


Not just a long-distance relationship: Immune cells in skin fight off infection better than the rest

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created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at the University of Melbourne have discovered the local action of immune cells in the skin, which could improve treatment of viral skin infections.


Oral vitamin D may help prevent some skin infections

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created Oct 06, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 0

A study led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine suggests that use of oral Vitamin D supplements bolsters production of a protective chemical normally found in the skin, and may help ...


Study shows sharp national rise in skin infections, MRSA suspected

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created Jul 28, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A national analysis of physician office and emergency department records shows that the types of skin infections caused by community-acquired MRSA doubled in the eight-year study period, with the highest rates seen among ...





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Researchers design new strategy to find drugs to treat neglected infection

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using an unconventional approach that they designed, University of Pittsburgh drug discoverers and their collaborators at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research have identified compounds that hold promise for treating leishmaniasis, ...


MRSA strain linked to high death rates

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created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A strain of MRSA that causes bloodstream infections is five times more lethal than other strains and has shown to have some resistance to the potent antibiotic drug vancomycin used to treat MRSA, according to a Henry Ford ...


Pumpkin skin may scare away germs

Pumpkin skin may scare away germs

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The skin of that pumpkin you carve into a Jack-o'-Lantern to scare away ghosts and goblins on Halloween contains a substance that could put a scare into microbes that cause millions of cases of yeast infections ...


Latest analysis confirms suboptimal vitamin D levels in millions of US children

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created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Millions of children in the United States between the ages of 1 and 11 may suffer from suboptimal levels of vitamin D, according to a large nationally representative study published in the November issue of Pediatrics, accomp ...


Mice regain ability to extend telomeres suggesting potential for dyskeratosis congenita therapy

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created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The human genetic disease dyskeratosis congenita (DKC) is an autosomal dominant disease that leads to abnormalities in tissues with a rapid cell turnover - the skin, nails, bone marrow, lungs and gut. Patients with DKC experience ...


Physical therapists play integral role in prevention, risk reduction, and treatment of lymphedema

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As breast cancer awareness month is observed during October, the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is hoping to shine a spotlight on lymphedema, a chronic, debilitating and often irreversible side effect of cancer ...


ID3 provides career counseling for blood progenitors, driving the creation of gamma-delta T cells

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created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Like an unusually forceful career counselor, the Id3 protein decides the fate of a given white blood cell precursor, according to researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center. Their findings, published today in the journal Immunity, de ...


Swine flu and kids: Heed warning signs, MDs say (AP)

Swine flu and kids: Heed warning signs, MDs say

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created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Max Gomez was a bright-eyed 5-year-old happy to have just started kindergarten when he developed sniffles and a fever. His mother figured it was only a cold. Three days later, the Antioch, Tenn., ...


Shingles raises risk of stroke by 30 percent or more in adults

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created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Adults with shingles were about 30 percent more likely to have a stroke during a one-year follow-up than adults without shingles, in a study reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.


Liver cells grown from patients' skin cells

Liver cells grown from patients' skin cells

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created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee have successfully produced liver cells from patients' skin cells opening the possibility of treating a wide range of diseases that affect liver function. ...



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