blisters

Turning viruses into allies against cancer

...he herpes simplex virus, responsible for those lip blisters known as cold sores. In studies presented this week at the 96th meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), researchers describe their latest studies with their engineered versions of these viruses. Cold Sore Virus Modified to H...

Achilles heel of the herpes virus possibly found

...he body, causing everything from recurrent genital blisters to sores around the mouth. Its complications can kill, and it may increase susceptibility to many nerve and brain disorders. But until now, scientists haven't fully understood how the herpes simplex virus (HSV) manages to do all of this. And that ha...

Monkeypox mystery: New research may explain why 2003 outbreak in the US wasn't deadly

...x. But its symptoms are similar: fever, pus-filled blisters all over the body, and respiratory problems. "Our finding may explain the lack of case-fatalities in the 2003 monkeypox outbreak in the United States, which was caused by a West African virus," Buller said. ...

Emerging staph strains found to be increasingly deadly and deceptive

...ions such as impetigo, which typically forms small blisters on the faces of children, or cellulitis, an inflammation of skin or muscle tissue, can easily be treated and usually resolve in a matter of days. But S. aureus disease also can be much more severe and difficult to treat, affecting vital organs and le...

Stress substantially slows human body's ability to heal

...ll suction device which created eight tiny uniform blisters on their arms. The skin was removed from each blister and another device placed directly over each small wound, forming a protective bubble, from which researchers could extract fluids that normally fill such blisters. The husbands and wives also c...

Scientists stop autoimmune disease without shutting off immune system

...that hold skin cells together. They develop severe blisters and raw sores as the top layer of their skin falls apart, leaving them extremely vulnerable to infection. The development of drugs that completely suppress the immune system offered a lifeline to patients with pemphigus vulgaris (PV) and other aut...

Cancer researchers add spice to research against rare neuromuscular disease

...east cancer, melanoma, Alzheimer's disease and the blisters that come with radiation treatments for cancer. Chang notes that ginger, a family of spices that includes curcumin, is widely used in China as a folk medicine to treat male-pattern baldness. That condition is caused largely by the activity of the ...

Clot-dissolving agent may be beneficial in treatment of severe frostbite

... by full-thickness tissue involvement, hemorrhagic blisters and abnormal perfusion on either angiogram or pyrophosphate scanning. Initiation of therapy within 24 hours of rewarming also appears to be necessary. Exclusion criteria would include superficial frostbite, involvement of the tips of the distal phala...