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Green tea flavonoid may prevent reinfection with hepatitis C virus following liver transplantation
• Dieting • • Infections • Dec 01 11
German researchers have determined that epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG)—a flavonoid found in green tea—inhibits the hepatitis C virus (HCV) from entering liver cells. Study findings available…
2 out of 3 medical students do not know when to wash their hands
• Infections • • Public Health • Dec 01 11
Only 21 percent of surveyed medical students could identify five true and two false indications of when and when not to wash their hands…
Many parents request delays in vaccine schedule
• Children's Health • • Immunology • • Infections • Nov 29 11
More than three quarters of pediatricians said they sometimes or often get asked by parents to use an “alternative” vaccination schedule that strays from…
Fewer babies get chicken pox when kids are vaccinated
• Children's Health • • Infections • Nov 29 11
Even though babies under one year old are too young to get the chicken pox vaccine, far fewer of them got the itchy rash…
Zinc supplementation does not protect young African children against malaria
• Infections • • Public Health • Nov 23 11
A study led by Hans Verhoef, a researcher at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, and…
Results in ‘Science’ could identify new ways to design vaccines, antibiotics
• Infections • Nov 17 11
A University of Louisville scientist has determined for the first time how the bacterium that causes Legionnaires’ disease manipulates our cells to generate the…
Pneumonia most common infection after heart surgery
• Infections • • Surgery • Nov 16 11
Pneumonia - not a deep incision surgical site infection - is the most common serious infection after heart surgery, according to new research (Abstract…
Lipid Blocks Influenza Infection
• Flu • • Infections • Nov 09 11
A natural lipid in the fluid lining the lungs inhibits influenza infections in both cell cultures and mouse models, according to researchers at National…
Researchers discover why measles spreads so quickly
• Infections • • Public Health • Nov 04 11
Measles virus is perhaps the most contagious virus in the world, affecting 10 million children worldwide each year and accounting for 120,000 deaths. An…
Drugs used to tackle hospital-acquired infections can increase post-op complications
• Infections • Oct 31 11
The introduction of new antibiotic regimes to tackle hospital-acquired infections, such as C. difficile, must take into account the possibility of increased infections following…
An Antibiotic Effect Minus Resistance
• Infections • Oct 29 11
After 70 years, antibiotics are still the primary treatment for halting the spread of bacterial infections. But the prevalence of antibiotic resistance is now…
Malaria scientist celebrates success after 24 years
• Infections • Oct 18 11
For Joe Cohen, a GlaxoSmithKline research scientist who has spent 24 years trying to create the world’s first malaria vaccine, Tuesday, October 18, 2011…
World’s first malaria vaccine works in major trial
• Infections • Oct 18 11
An experimental vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline halved the risk of African children getting malaria in a major clinical trial, making it likely to become the…
Cholera epidemic spreads in west, central Africa: U.N.
• Infections • Oct 11 11
A cholera epidemic sweeping through west and Central Africa, one of the biggest in the vast region’s history, has infected more than 85,000 people,…
Can antivirulence drugs stop infections without causing resistance?
• Infections • Oct 11 11
Antivirulence drugs disarm pathogens rather than kill them, and although they could be effective in theory, antivirulence drugs have never been tested in humans.…
Alcohol impairs the body’s ability to fight off viral infection
• Infections • Sep 30 11
Alcohol is known to worsen the effects of disease, resulting in longer recovery period after trauma, injury or burns. It is also known to…
Two U.S. children develop flu from pigs: CDC
• Flu • • Infections • Sep 04 11
Two U.S. children were infected with flu viruses that originated in pigs in the past two months, and an analysis of both viruses showed…
Statins reduce deaths from infection and respiratory illness, 8 years on from trial
• Infections • • Respiratory Problems • Aug 28 11
The death rate among patients prescribed a statin in a major trial that ended in 2003 is still lower than those given a placebo,…
Hospital-related infections drop under California initiative
• Infections • • Public Health • Aug 26 11
Scores of California hospitals, under pressure to reduce infections that kill an estimated 12,000 patients every year, say they have managed to cut costs…
Study identifies new way to treat common hospital-acquired infection
• Infections • • Public Health • Aug 22 11
Researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have discovered a molecular process…
Vaccinations: They Are Not Just For Kids, Says Loyola Expert
• Immunology • • Infections • Aug 19 11
A new school year means more than new clothes, new books and a new grade level – it also means new shots for millions…
Strengthening fragile immune memories to fight chronic infections
• Infections • Aug 18 11
After recovering from the flu or another acute infection, your immune system is ready to react quickly if you run into the same virus…
Experts redesign common microbe to fight drug-resistant bacteria
• Infections • Aug 16 11
Researchers in Singapore have re-engineered a harmless strain of bacteria to fight another common, drug-resistant microbe that spreads in hospitals and is deadly to…
Hepatitis C Transmitted by Unprotected Sex Between HIV-Infected Men
• AIDS/HIV • • Infections • • Sexual Health • Jul 23 11
Sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is considered rare. But a new study by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, working with…
Purdue biologists identify new strategy used by bacteria during infection
• Infections • Jul 13 11
Purdue University biologists identified a new way in which bacteria hijack healthy cells during infection, which could provide a target for new antibiotics.
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