All Articles Tagged As: infection

Researchers Identify Biofilms That Cause Infection (6/15/2008)

Understanding the way bacterial cells "talk" to each other could lead to more effective methods for fighting the often persistent and serious infections caused by the biofilms they form ...> Full Article

Avoiding Infections Helps Keep Cancer Patients Healthy (6/15/2008)

Infections are a major cause of illness and death in cancer patients, but simple steps and common sense can help keep patients healthy and improve their chances of a good recovery. ...> Full Article

Researchers Describe How Vaccine Adjuvant Jump-Starts Immune System (5/24/2008)

Researchers have determined how a key component of many vaccines activates an immune system response, a finding that opens up promising new avenues of research on better ways to prevent infections. ...> Full Article

New discovery on role of vital protein that fights meningitis (5/7/2008)

researcher has discovered how a protein in the blood - linked to defence against meningitis - plays a more vital role than previously understood in the body's immune defence system. ...> Full Article

Clays hold promise in fight against infections (4/17/2008)

Mud may be coming to a medicine cabinet or pharmacy near you ...> Full Article

Study identifies mechanism underlying multidrug resistance in fungi (4/5/2008)

Finding could improve treatment of dangerous infections in immune-compromised patients ...> Full Article

Researchers Find Possible Target to Treat Deadly Bloodstream Infections (3/3/2008)

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered a possible target to treat bloodstream bacterial infections. ...> Full Article

Technique Promises to Aid Doctors' Ability to Identify, Treat Bacterial Infections (2/21/2008)

A new technique developed by a University of Central Florida chemist will help physicians more quickly identify the bacterial infections patients have so they can be treated in hours instead of days. ...> Full Article

Lower Transmission Rates Can Increase Dengue Deaths (2/7/2008)

Researchers have answered a puzzle about why efforts to lower the transmission of dengue virus in Thailand have not resulted in decreases in the life-threatening form of the infection. ...> Full Article

Hand washing helps prevent illness (1/17/2008)

Proper hand washing is the most effective action you can take to protect yourself from many common illnesses, including the cold, influenza and gastrointestinal illnesses (often mistakenly called the stomach flu). Washing your hands also helps protect those around you if you are sick. ...> Full Article

Viral infection affects important cell stress response (11/20/2007)

Viral infection disrupts the normal response of mammalian cells to outside deleterious forces, cleaving and inactivating a protein called G3BP that helps drive the formation of stress granules, which shelter the messenger RNAs that carry the code for protein formation. ...> Full Article

Researchers Find MRSA in Pigs (11/15/2007)

Pigs can now be added to the list of potential carriers of the drug-resistant "superbug" methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). ...> Full Article

Ecologists Uncover Links Between Fever And Living Fast, Dying Young (11/4/2007)

Fever is an effective defence against disease, but new research suggests that not all animals use it when exposed to infection. The study, published online in the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ecology, found large differences in fever responses among closely related species of mice and suggests that an animal's reproductive strategy could explain some of this intriguing variation. ...> Full Article

Drug-resistant staph infection appears more widespread than previously thought (10/19/2007)

Infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) appears to be more prevalent than previously believed, affecting certain populations disproportionately and is being found more often outside of health care settings. ...> Full Article

Researchers find way to fight treacherous Hepatitis B (10/8/2007)

One in four people who are chronically infected with hepatitis B will die from its impact if untreated, but a team of researchers have identified the most cost-effective way of fighting this treacherous infection. ...> Full Article

Using Antiretrovirals as a Prevention Strategy Could Dramatically Slow The Spread of HIV Infection in Africa (9/21/2007)

Model predicts potential prevention of more than 3 million new HIV infections over 10 years ...> Full Article

Using Evolution, Scientists Creates A Template For Many New Therapeutic Agents (9/12/2007)

By guiding an enzyme down a new evolutionary pathway, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has created a new form of an enzyme capable of producing a range of potential new therapeutic agents with anticancer and antibiotic properties. ...> Full Article

New cancer fighter may help ICU patients beat infections (8/31/2007)

HSP 90 inhibitors, which are finding favor in fighting cancer, may also help battle overwhelming infection in intensive care patients, researchers say. ...> Full Article

Bleeding, Not Inflammation, Is Major Cause of Early Lung Infection Death (8/30/2007)

Researchers believe they have discovered why a bacterial lung infection is so lethal in the early stages, and it's not what medical authorities had thought, according to research published today in the journal Immunity. The study reveals for the first time that a toxin released by bacteria causes severe bleeding in the lungs by patients with pneumococcal pneumonia. It is the bleeding, the authors argue, not inflammation as once thought, which makes the infections deadly. The same study also reveals why antibiotics often fail to help prevent early death. ...> Full Article

Ancient Probiotic Drink to be Tested in Young Children Receiving Antibiotics (8/30/2007)

Tests, being conducted by Georgetown University Medical Center researchers, will study whether kefir reduces diarrhea in children taking antibiotcs ...> Full Article

Immune Mechanism Could Explain Transient Immune Suppression in Acute Infections (8/5/2007)

Scientists have discovered that at the same time the immune system is vigorously attacking invading viruses or bacteria, it is unexpectedly reducing its production of a particular type of factor that directs the movement of immune cells. The new finding, which could help explain the transient immune suppression often seen during acute infections, shows that the immune system is even more complex than previously believed. ...> Full Article

Microbes Start Immune Response By Sneaking Inside Cells (4/17/2007)

New insights could lead to better vaccines, treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, U-M study suggests ...> Full Article

Hepatitis C virus blocks 'superinfection' (4/5/2007)

There’s infection and then there’s superinfection – when a cell already infected by a virus gets a second viral infection. But some viruses don’t like to share their cells. New research from Rockefeller University shows that the hepatitis C virus, which infects cells in the liver and can cause chronic liver disease, can block other hepatitis C variants from infecting the same cell. ...> Full Article

Researchers Find New Superbug Weapon for Failing Antibiotics Arsenal (3/27/2007)

Imagine the desperation of trying to fight lethal infections when antibiotics fail to work. ...> Full Article