Archive for the ‘Immune System / Vaccines’ Category
Friday, April 11th, 2008
In 2007, several European countries experienced high numbers of measles cases, notably Switzerland, and to a lesser extent the United Kingdom (UK) and Romania (more than one case per 100,000 population per year). Full data for measles cases in Europe for 2007 can be found on the website of EUVAC.Net, ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
In a surprising outcome that overturns the conventional wisdom on the body's immune response to infection, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have shown that T cells do not begin proliferation until up to three days after infection.Until now, it was generally believed that memory T cells, lymphocytes that recognize ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Despite the widespread use of a second dose of mumps vaccine in the US, the largest outbreak for two decades occurred in 2007, prompting calls for a more effective vaccine or changes in policy.Viral disease investigators from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other colleagues from various ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Scientists from UCL (University College London) have identified a key difference between people who can fight the Hepatitis B virus (HBV) off successfully and those who fail to do so - that a group of cells important in controlling the disease are triggered to 'commit suicide' in patients who are ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The journal Respirology has launched a special supplementary issue on the avian influenza. Published by Wiley-Blackwell, the collection of papers present an inclusive insight into the threat of the avian influenza pandemic by addressing a wide range of topics including the basic biology of the virus, updates on laboratory ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Protection against vaccine-preventable diseases is not only recommended for children. Adults, too, need protection. To make clinicians aware of the importance of complete and timely vaccination for their adult patients, The Journal of Family Practice has published a supplement to the April 2008 issue, Update on vaccine-preventable diseases: Are ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The Baltimore Sun on Saturday published two letters to the editor written in response to a March 23 Sun opinion piece by Homayoon Khanlou and Michael Weinstein of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Khanlou and Weinstein wrote that the U.S. should invest in proven HIV/AIDS treatment, testing and prevention strategies and ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Endometriosis is a poorly understood condition that incapacitates and affects the productivity and lifestyle of millions of women around the world. In the US, it affects approximately six million women and adolescents at a cost of some $1.6 billion per year. It is a chronic painful disease which occurs ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
News stories about an allegedly harmful link between the mumps, measles and rubella vaccine and the onset of autism had little effect on whether U.S. parents immunized their children, according to a review of immunization records and news stories. Parents' decisions were more likely influenced by recommendations from their child's ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
An article published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicinefindsthat there is a link between coronary heart disease and levels ofinterleukin-6 (IL-6), a protein triggered by inflammation thatattracts immune system cells to an injury site. John Danesh(University of Cambridge) and colleagues also suggest that new drugsdesigned to fight vascular disease may ...
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