Plant-Based Compound May Inhibit HIV Infection, Research Shows
Posted: July 19, 2013 at 5:00 am, Last Updated: July 23, 2013 at 6:49 am By Michele McDonald Yuntao Wu. Creative Services photo A compound found in soybeans may…
Study reveals potential immune benefits of vitamin D supplements in healthy individuals
Contact: Jenny Eriksen jenny.eriksen@bmc.org 617-638-6841 Boston University Medical Center (Boston) – Research from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) shows that improving vitamin D status by increasing its level in…
Paradox of Vaccination: Is Vaccination Really Effective against Avian Flu Epidemics?
Abstract Background Although vaccination can be a useful tool for control of avian influenza epidemics, it might engender emergence of a vaccine-resistant strain. Field and experimental studies show that some…
Antibiotics have long-term impacts on gut flora/ Up to 2 years
2010 study posted for filing Contact: Laura Udakis l.udakis@sgm.ac.uk 44-118-988-1843 Society for General Microbiology Short courses of antibiotics can leave normal gut bacteria harbouring antibiotic resistance genes for up to…
Antibiotics have long-term impacts on gut flora/ Up to 2 years
2010 study posted for filing Contact: Laura Udakis l.udakis@sgm.ac.uk 44-118-988-1843 Society for General Microbiology Short courses of antibiotics can leave normal gut bacteria harbouring antibiotic resistance genes for up to…
Viruses cooperate or conquer to cause maximum destruction: They Change Behaviour to overcome our attempt to control them
Contact: Louise Vennells L.Vennells@exeter.ac.uk 44-013-927-22062 University of Exeter Viruses cooperate or conquer to cause maximum destruction Scientists have discovered new evidence about the evolution of viruses, in work that will…
Viruses cooperate or conquer to cause maximum destruction: They Change Behaviour to overcome our attempt to control them
Contact: Louise Vennells L.Vennells@exeter.ac.uk 44-013-927-22062 University of Exeter Scientists have discovered new evidence about the evolution of viruses, in work that will change our understanding about the control of infectious…
Homicide spreads like infectious disease
Contact(s): Andy Henion Media Communications office: (517) 355-3294 cell: (517) 281-6949 Andy.Henion@cabs.msu.edu, April Zeoli Criminal Justice office: (517) 353-9554 zeoli@msu.edu Homicide moves through a city in a process similar to…
Man’s best friend: Common canine virus may lead to new vaccines for deadly human diseases
Public Affairs News Service Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 Writer: James E. Hataway, 706/542-5222, jhataway@uga.edu Contact: Biao He, 706/542-2855, bhe@uga.edu Athens, Ga. - Researchers at the University of Georgia have discovered…
New DNA vaccine technology poised to deliver safe and cost-effective disease protection
Contact: Richard Harth richard.harth@asu.edu Arizona State University New and increasingly sophisticated vaccines are taking aim at a broad range of disease-causing pathogens, targeting them with greater effectiveness at lower…
Aspirin Misuse May Have Made 1918 Flu Pandemic Worse
2009 study posted for filing The devastation of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic is well known, but a new article suggests a surprising factor in the high death toll: the…
‘Dung of the devil’ plant roots point to new swine flu drugs: Showed greater potency against influenza A (H1N1) than a prescription antiviral drugs
2009 study posted for filing Contact: Michael Woods m_woods@acs.org 202-872-6293 American Chemical Society Scientists in China have discovered that roots of a plant used a century ago during the great…
Survivors of 1918 flu pandemic protected with a lifetime immunity to virus
Contact: Mount Sinai Newsroom newsmedia@mssm.edu 212-241-9200 The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine New research has discovered that infection and natural exposure to the 1918 influenza virus…
Mutation causes defective Natural Killer cells
Natural Killer (NK) cells defend the body against infectious diseases and cancer by recognizing and killing stressed or infected cells and patients with NK deficiencies are susceptible to severe…
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Pain drug can kill resistant tuberculosis: Researchers claim may never be tested in TB clinical trials.
Public release date: 10-Sep-2012 [Print | E-mail| Share][ Close Window ] Contact: Lauren Woods law2014@med.cornell.edu 212-821-0560 New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College Researchers find low cost…
Reconstructed 1918 influenza virus has yielded key insights, scientists say
Contact: Nalini Padmanabhan padmanabhannm@niaid.nih.gov 301-402-1663 NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases WHAT: The genetic sequencing and reconstruction of the 1918 influenza virus that killed 50 million people worldwide…
Pheromone from the summer cypress Killed Mosquitoes (West Nile virus) in trials Everytime
*Reposted at Request, data known since 1999.... The government will not justify the expense in regards to human life and the environment...Engineering Evil Contact: Claire Bowles claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk 44-171-331-2751 New Scientist A…
Study illuminates how the plague bacteria causes disease
Contact: Heidi Hardman hhardman@cell.com 617-397-2879 Cell Press The bacteria responsible for the plague and some forms of food poisoning "paralyze" the immune system of their hosts in an unexpected way,…
New salmonella-based ‘clean vaccines’ aid the fight against infectious disease:To accomplish this, a recombinant strain of Salmonella was constructed using genes from another pathogen, Francisella tularensis
* They are using genes from tularensis " inhaling as few as 10 bacteria could be potentially deadly " I feel uncomfortable with the Gates foundation funding support utilizing a Bioweapon strain of Rabbit Fever? …
Tamiflu survives sewage treatment ( oseltamivir )
Contact: Jerker Fick jerker.fick@chem.umu.se 46-480-446-225 Public Library of Science Swedish researchers have discovered that oseltamivir (Tamiflu); an antiviral drug used to prevent and mitigate influenza infections is not removed or…
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