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Researchers discover human immune system has emergency backup plan
• Immunology • Dec 20 10
New research by scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences reveals that…
Scientists and physicians use genetic sequencing to identify and treat unknown disease
• Genetics • • Immunology • Dec 20 10
A collaborative team of scientists and physicians at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin uses genetic sequencing to identify and…
Immune cell plays unexpected role in autoimmune disease
• Immunology • Dec 16 10
A new study provides fascinating insight into the underlying pathology associated with the autoimmune disease, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The research, published by Cell…
New study reveals how cannabis suppresses immune functions
• Immunology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 25 10
An international team of immunologists studying the effects of cannabis have discovered how smoking marijuana can trigger a suppression of the body’s immune functions.…
Statins don’t prove useful for general pediatric lupus population
• Children's Health • • Heart • • Immunology • Nov 08 10
Lupus puts children at higher risk for coronary artery disease when they become adults, but routinely using statins doesn’t provide enough benefit to…
Immune System’s Bare Essentials Used to Speedily Detect Drug Targets
• Immunology • Oct 31 10
Scientists at Johns Hopkins have taken a less-is-more approach to designing effective drug treatments that are precisely tailored to disease-causing pathogens, such as viruses…
Immune system may help cancer cells hide: study
• Cancer • • Immunology • Oct 30 10
Cancer cells may find a hideout in the body’s immune system, researchers said on Thursday in a study that may help explain why tumors…
A new player in the innate immunity game?
• Immunology • Oct 26 10
Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that a certain class of RNA (known as long non-protein-coding RNA [lncRNA]) are involved in the host…
A crucial link in immune development and regulation unearthed
• Immunology • Oct 14 10
An Australian team of scientists has uncovered a quality control mechanism that must take place for our immune system to subsequently effectively destroy harmful…
One lock, many keys
• Immunology • Oct 07 10
In order to track down pathogens and render them harmless, the immune system must be able to recognize myriad different foreign substances and react…
H1N1 flu virus can mutate in immunosuppressed patients-study
• Flu • • Immunology • Oct 01 10
Patients with suppressed immune systems can quickly develop H1N1 flu infections that resist all known drugs, doctors in the Netherlands reported on Wednesday.
The…
Immune system gene linked with Parkinson’s: study
• Immunology • • Neurology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Aug 17 10
A gene linked with the immune system may play a role in developing Parkinson’s disease, researchers said on Sunday, marking a possible advance in…
Small increases in vaccine cost can cause large gaps in protection
• Immunology • • Public Health • Jul 29 10
Public immunization efforts may be much more sensitive than previously realized to small changes in the perceived costs or risks of vaccination, scientists at…
Are kids’ ER visits for food allergies on the rise?
• Allergies • • Emergencies / First Aid • • Immunology • Jul 28 10
Children’s visits to the emergency room for serious food-allergy reactions may be on the rise, if the experience of one major U.S. medical center…
Disease genes that followed the Silk Road identified
• Genetics • • Immunology • • Public Health • Jul 20 10
Scientists have identified key genes responsible for a severe inflammatory disease that has spread along the old silk trading routes from the Far East…
British ban for doctor at heart of MMR vaccine row
• Children's Health • • Immunology • May 24 10
A doctor whose claims of links between vaccination and autism triggered a scientific storm before being widely discredited was struck off Britain’s medical…
Breast-fed babies less feverish after immunization
• Children's Health • • Immunology • May 20 10
Breastfeeding may protect babies from post-vaccine fevers, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics.
It’s not uncommon for an infant’s temperature to…
Yogurt-like drink DanActive reduced rate of common infections in daycare children
• Dieting • • Immunology • • Infections • May 19 10
The probiotic yogurt-like drink DanActive reduced the rate of common sicknesses such as ear infections, sinusitis, the flu and diarrhea in daycare children, say…
U.S. adults forgo routine immunization: report
• Immunology • Feb 05 10
Tens of thousands of American adults die each year from pneumonia, influenza and other infectious diseases that could be prevented by routine vaccinations,…
Immune treatment helps chronic pain patients
• Immunology • • Pain • Feb 02 10
Treating the immune system can dramatically ease the suffering of people with chronic pain from an injured limb or following an amputation, a finding…
Cancer Stem Cells Suppress Immune Response Against Brain Tumor
• Cancer • • Immunology • Jan 15 10
Cancer-initiating cells that launch glioblastoma multiforme, the most lethal type of brain tumor, also suppress an immune system attack on the disease, scientists from…
It’s Not Too Late to Vaccinate against H1N1 and Seasonal Influenza!
• Children's Health • • Immunology • • Public Health • Jan 11 10
It is not too late for those who have not been immunized against the novel H1N1 influenza A virus or seasonal influenza to…
Allergy Vaccinations Reduce Children’s Health Care Costs by One-Third
• Children's Health • • Immunology • • Public Health • Jan 11 10
Allergy immunotherapy, generally referred to as allergy vaccinations or shots, reduce total health care costs in children with allergic rhinitis (hay fever) by one-third,…
Tobacco Smoke Has Harmful Impact on Asthma, Rhinitis and Immunity
• Asthma • • Immunology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 09 09
Tobacco smoke is involved in uncontrolled asthma, a diminished response to anti-asthma drugs, rhinitis, nasal obstruction, and deregulation of the immune system according to…
Lupus linked to heart disease
• Heart • • Immunology • Oct 29 09
People with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have a more than twofold increased risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a new study.
Lupus is a…