Tag: "immunity" at medical news

Stress reduces your immunity- startling but true!!!!!

In a startling expose, new research into how our immunity works says stress reduces our immunity and makes us more vulnerable to diseases. For long we have agreed that stress is bad for our health ...

Dark skin protects

...tractin is known to regulate both melanisation and immunity in humans, suggesting a link between the two.He also points out that darker-skinned people are less likely than people with fair skin to develop serious skin diseases. It also explains why all do not have black skin. Melanin is made from the amino...

Supplement helps cardiac surgery

A nutritional supplement has been found to support immunity in elderly, frail and patients at risk undergoing heart surgery. After every operation, rate of infection is a common risk, especially for patients who have impaired immunity.Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh report on the use of a nutritio...

Depression a possible danger in elderly

...ed patients. The effect may be direct - impaired immunity may result from depression, for instance. Or it may be an indirect behavioural effect, with depressed patients being less motivated to take medication or otherwise follow medical directions. Another possibility is that depression is a symptom of an u...

High Demand for a child vaccine

... we immunize your baby at 2, 4, and 6 months, that immunity will last certainly past a year. If we don't give the 12-month dose until 18 months or 24 months, the children are still well protected....

A new vaccine for leukemia

...e without side effects, and will offer the patient immunity against their cancer for life.It is hoped that the treatment can be refined and extended to other cancers of the blood - including myeloma and myeloid leukaemia....

Panacea Biotech To Market Anthrax Vaccine

...person has contacted anthrax. The vaccine develops immunity in the human body to anthrax bacillus. According to marketing director Rajesh, the vaccine developed by JNU is superior to the only other anti-anthrax vaccine available in the US. The vaccine in the US has a lot of toxic side- effects. The side-effec...

Vaccine guards against shingles

...les. The elder population, and those with impaired immunity because of cancer, have a high rate of shingles a viral infection caused by the same virus that gives rise to chicken pox. //Most people recover from chicken pox, a common childhood infection, without incident. But the virus lingers in nerve cells, a...

Stem cells aid to cure brain cancer

...ells and, what is more, they also showed long-term immunity to brain cancer, indicating the potential of this new therapy....

Allergies: A major health problem

...DS, Allergy symptoms appear on account of too much immunity while in AIDS there will be too little immunity to prevent the disease. The substance that triggers this syndrome is known as allergens. Allergens a...

Proof that Vitamin C may be effective in combating colds

...min C and separated and measured the levels of the immunity boosting substances called cytokines. They found that the levels of certain virus-fighting cytokines was increased in the period immediately after the two weeks and came back to normal after about two weeks. This proved that the effect of vitamin C i...

A Solution For Patients Suffering From Shingles

...ses of tai chi a week for 15 weeks boosts shingles immunity by about 50 percent. Significant improvements were seen in the older adults who practiced tai chi and their ability to carry out day-to-day tasks, tai chi was also found to offer protection against other viruses....

Chicken-Pox vaccine not fool proof

... take a more severe form. Adults whose childhood immunity has worn off could be in trouble later age as it increases their vulnerability to the disease, say experts. ‘‘The findings do raise some pertinent questions. It is a matter of concern.’’ says Dr Anupal Sibal, senior child specialist, Indraprastha Ap...

WHO Issues Caution Against Bird Flu Epidemic

... human, and cause an influenza outbreak that human immunity will be unable to handle. The disease was first seen in the poultry of Republic of Korea in mid December 2003 and had soon spread to Asian countries of Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Thailand, and Viet Nam. The first cases of humans being...

Blindness may be genetic by nature

Your kind of immunity may lead you to blindness. According to a new research to be published in the Science journal, //scientists had been able to find out a genetic component that may lead to loss of sight. In search of what is commonly known as blindness due to age, s...

Cure For Persistent Oral Fungal Problem May Be Possible

...especially effective treatment for patients having immunity suppressing drugs, like those suffering from HIV-AIDS, Organ transplant patients and chemotherapy patients. http://www.buffalo.edu/news/fast-execute.cgi/article- page.html?article=66080009...

Mouth Infection better handled with new discovery

...t it is harder to treat in people with compromised immunity and can be deadly if it infects vital organs. It was known that histatin usually can keep Candida albicans in check among healthy people with enough saliva, but the mechanism of action of the drug was not known.It was discovered through studies that...

New Treatment For People Allergic To Cats

...is possible to generate a new therapy based on the immunity of the person concerned against allergic reactions. A protein found in cat saliva and dander, called gamma Feline domesticus causes the release of histamine in people allergic to cats. The latest innovation aims to activate the antibody that could s...

Arthritis drugs are causing skin problems

...e tumor necrosis factor-á-blocking drugs lower the immunity of the body and thus the patients become more vulnerable to infections like the ones that affect the skin. The research was published in the current issue of the journal Arthritis Research & Therapy. Reference: Journal Arthritis Research & Therapy,...

Parasitic infections and human immunity link found

...fect human beings and the human body starts on its immunity system to fight the infection.// Till recently, li...w the parasitic infections are fought by the human immunity system. A recent research done by the researchers of Yale School of Medicine had identified a molecu...

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