Related topics: flu
News tagged with strains
New technology shows promise against resistant staph infections
Apr 30, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
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 ...
Universal flu vaccine holds promise
Apr 27, 2009 |
4.2 / 5 (5) |
0
An influenza vaccine that protects against death and serious complications from different strains of flu is a little closer to reality, Saint Louis University vaccine researchers have found.
New study overturns orthodoxy on how macrophages kill bacteria
Apr 27, 2009 |
4.9 / 5 (9) |
0
For decades, microbiologists assumed that macrophages, immune cells that can engulf and poison bacteria and other pathogens, killed microbes by damaging their DNA. A new study from the University of Illinois ...
Investigators searching for links among meningitis victims
Apr 25, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
"Patient Zero," the first victim to come down with the rare strain of meningitis that has killed four and infected eight others in South Florida since December, was a South Florida resident who was sickened in December but ...
Bird flu found in Tibet: state media
Apr 19, 2009 |
2.7 / 5 (3) |
0
Chinese officials had confirmed the outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu among poultry in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, state media reported Sunday, quoting the ministry of agriculture.
Is love at first sight real? Geneticists offer tantalizing clues
Apr 07, 2009 |
4.3 / 5 (3) |
0
Leave it to geneticists to answer a question that has perplexed humanity since the dawn of time: does love at first sight truly exist? According to a study published in the April 2009 issue of the journal Genetics, a team ...
Research could lead to more comprehensive flu vaccines
Mar 27, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- New findings from research performed on the influenza virus using X-rays generated by the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory may help ...
The host makes all the difference
Mar 26, 2009 |
4 / 5 (2) |
0
For some people it is a certainty: as soon as the annual flu season gets underway, they are sure to go down with it. It is little comfort to know that there are other people who are apparently resistant to flu or overcome ...
Alarming new data shows TB-HIV co-infection a bigger threat
Mar 24, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
The World Health Organization released staggering new data about the threat of tuberculosis and the toll it takes on people with HIV/AIDS today, in recognition of World TB Day.
South Africa tries treating TB patients at home
Mar 23, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
(AP) -- South Africa is trying a new approach to controlling drug-resistant tuberculosis - treating people at home rather than in isolation hospitals surrounded by barbed wire and baton-wielding guards, health officials ...
Researchers develop new TB test that will dramatically cut diagnosis time
Mar 19, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and The University of Pittsburgh have developed an onsite method to quickly diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and expose the deadly drug-resistant strains that can mingle ...
Better by design: Engineering flu vaccines
Mar 17, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
A new computerized method of testing could help world health officials better identify flu vaccines that are effective against multiple strains of the disease. Rice University scientists who created the method ...
MRSA study suggests strategy shift needed to develop effective therapeutics
Mar 17, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
USA300--the major epidemic strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) causing severe infections in the United States during the past decade--inherits its destructiveness directly from a forefather strain ...
Einstein researchers develop novel antibiotics that don't trigger resistance
Mar 13, 2009 |
5 / 5 (6) |
0
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of medicine's most vexing challenges. In a study described in Nature Chemical Biology, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University are de ...
Study suggests surface water contaminated with salmonella more common than thought
Feb 27, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
A new University of Georgia study suggests that health agencies investigating Salmonella illnesses should consider untreated surface water as a possible source of contamination.
