Items tagged with infection

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Blood Counts Are Clues To Human Disease Monday, October 12th, 2009 - 19:37:33 - Ehud Rattner A new genome-wide association study published October 11 in Nature Genetics begins to uncover the basis of genetic variations in eight blood... read more

Pensioner Grows New Skull Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 - 18:07:21 - Anuradha Menon Gordon Moore, 72, had worn a metal plate to protect his brain for more than 50 years after he was involved in a car crash. But when surgeons removed... read more

Botnet May Have Infected Half of Fortune 100 Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 - 12:02:20 - Ehud Rattner Last week Canadian security vendor Defence Intelligence reported that half the Fortune 100 companies have been compromised by a botnet they dubbed... read more

Vaccine Could Prevent HIV Infection Saturday, September 26th, 2009 - 10:13:20 - Anuradha Menon The first vaccine to show any sign of preventing the spread of HIV has provided the most encouragement since the 1990s in the three-decades quest to... read more

Aids Vaccine Found to Cut Risk of Infection Thursday, September 24th, 2009 - 16:36:56 - Anuradha Menon An experimental vaccine designed to combat HIV has shown the first signs of protection against the virus. The vaccine, which was being used in a... read more

Malaria Vaccine Holds Out Eradication Hope Monday, August 17th, 2009 - 00:00:00 - Ehud Rattner A vaccine that targets the malaria parasite at a vulnerable point in its development could form part of a strategy to eradicate the disease. Unlike... read more

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

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