Items tagged with infection

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Staving Off Ecological Disaster In Lungs Saturday, August 8th, 2009 - 10:29:26 - Anuradha Menon Viewing the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis as troubled ecosystems that need to be managed may lead to new ways of treating bacterial... read more

Blood Transfusion Study - Less is More Thursday, August 6th, 2009 - 16:58:16 - Anuradha Menon A new study suggests that blood transfusions for hospitalized cardiac patients should be a last resort because they double the risk of infection and... read more

Nanotechnology and Fatal Brain Infections Monday, June 29th, 2009 - 16:01:25 - Ehud Rattner Doctors may get a new arsenal for meningitis treatment and the war on drug-resistant bacteria and fungal infections with novel peptide nanoparticles... read more

Cold-Plasma Jets for Root Canals Thursday, May 28th, 2009 - 12:20:52 - Anuradha Menon Researchers in China and Southern California are racing to develop easy-to-use devices that kill infectious bacteria by delivering a stream of “cold”... read more

MRSA's 'Weak Point' Visualised by Scientists Friday, January 23rd, 2009 - 16:39:57 - Anuradha Menon An enzyme that lives in MRSA and helps the dangerous bacterium to grow and spread infection through the human body has been visualised for the first... read more

Nitric Oxide Shown to Cause Colon Cancer Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 - 10:14:13 - Anuradha Menon Researchers long ago established a link between inflammation, cancer and the compound nitric oxide, which may be produced when the immune system... read more

Probiotics Helps People Taking Antibiotics Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 - 15:47:01 - Ehud Rattner Up to one in five people on antibiotics stop taking their full course of antibiotic therapy due to diarrhea. Physicians could help patients avoid... read more

Summer Brings Bacterial Infections Sunday, December 7th, 2008 - 11:56:16 - Ehud Rattner In the same way that winter is commonly known to be the "flu season," a new study suggests that the dog days of summer may well be the "bacterial... read more

Measles Doesn't Work in the Way We Thought Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 - 20:58:40 - Ehud Rattner The infectious romp that the measles virus takes through the body doesn’t need to involve the airways, as was previously thought. Instead, the virus... read more

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