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Can strep throat cause OCD, Tourette syndrome?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research shows that streptococcal infection does not appear to cause or trigger Tourette syndrome or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The research is published in the September 30, 2009, online issue of Neurology®, the me ...


Double hand transplant patient recovering well (AP)

Double hand transplant patient recovering well

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

(AP) -- Valarie Kepner was so excited at learning last fall that doctors might be able give her husband new hands that she called the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center without telling him first.





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How flesh-eating bacteria attack the body's immune system

Medicine & Health / Research

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

"Flesh-eating" or "Strep" bacteria are able to survive and spread in the body by degrading a key immune defense molecule, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine and Skaggs ...


What killed Mozart? Study suggests strep infection (AP)

What killed Mozart? Study suggests strep infection

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created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- For more than two centuries, the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has endured - as has the speculation about what led to his sudden death at age 35 on Dec. 5, 1791.


False test results seen in maternal screening

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created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A massive effort to test pregnant women for a deadly germ they can spread to their babies has yielded a bad surprise - a high rate of wrong test results that led some infants to miss out on treatment.


Antibodies to strep throat bacteria linked to obsessive compulsive disorder in mice

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health's Center for Infection and Immunity indicates that pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Tourette syndrome and/or tic disorder may ...


Physician urges changes in diagnosis for sore throat in young adults

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

New analysis from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) suggests that physicians need to re-think their diagnosis and treatment of sore throat, or pharyngitis, in adolescents and young adults to consider a more newly ...


Engineered protein shows potential as a strep vaccine

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created Mar 06, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A University of California, San Diego-led research team has demonstrated that immunization with a stabilized version of a protein found on Streptococcus bacteria can provide protection against Strep infections, which afflict ...


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New research aims to eliminate Streptococcus infections

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created Mar 06, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Professor Howard Jenkinson in the Department of Oral & Dental Science (Dental School) has been awarded a grant of £285,000 from The Wellcome Trust to research ways to combat diseases caused by Streptococcus ...


Researchers seek to make cavity-causing bacteria self-destruct

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created Jan 02, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

[B]Larger goal to eliminate key enzyme's contribution to all strep and staph disease[/B] Bacteria that eat sugar and release cavity-causing acid onto teeth may soon be made dramatically more vulnerable to their own acid. Res ...


Scientists drill holes through deadly bacteria's Kevlar-like hide

Scientists drill holes through deadly bacteria's Kevlar-like hide

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created Dec 05, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (25) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- To protect themselves from human defenses, disease-causing bacteria have evolved a cell wall made from a nearly impenetrable tangle of tightly woven strands. That’s made it difficult for scientists ...


Tuberculosis: On the path to prevention

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Why do some people who are exposed to tuberculosis not become infected or develop the disease? Dr. Erwin Schurr and his team at the Research Institute from the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), in collaboration with ...



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