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Understanding The Effectiveness Of Antibiotics In Treating Urinary Tract Infection

...xacin (Cipro) at treating an uncomplicated bladder infection in women. The most common bacterial infections for women are acute uncomplicated urinary tract infections. Treating the problem has become increasingly difficult because of antimicrobial resistance ,hence alternative antibiotics have become the answ...

The Effectiveness Of Hepatitis B Vaccine Questioned

...ested the vaccine for hepatitis B protects against infection for up to 10 years. However, a recent study has sh...patitis B vaccine protected most participants from infection and all participants from complications of infection for at least 15 years. Thus researchers say peo...

Treating Latent Herpes With Licorice

...ody for long periods of time, causing no immediate infection // but can strike again whenever resistance is lowered. The latent infections thus pose repeated problems for those infected. Based on findings of a recent study researchers say a compound found in licorice is showing promise as a treatment for a fo...

Fungal Infections Effectively Controlled By Light Therapy

...aid that the loss of the same genes reduces fungal infection in mice. Mice which lacked either of the light-sen...dity with which the fungus causes life threatening infection in the host. It is therefore conceivable that light could be used as a therapy for fungal infections...

Transmission Of Infectious Disease On Planes Analyzed

...cated that doubling the air exchange could cut the infection risk from tuberculosis in half and using disinfectants to clean the cabin between flights to areas of the world prone to malaria and other vector-borne diseases can help reduce disease transmission. Thus in conclusion researchers suggest that simple...

Gene Therapy To Treat Deafness

...h loss of sensory hairs in the cochlea due to age, infection or disease. Hearing loss becomes incurable, as the lost sensory hair cells do not regenerate. The new gene therapy may be able to cause clinically deaf people to get back some part of their hearing sensations. Tested on guinea pigs with a positive ...

Skin infections are becoming drug resistant

...Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is affecting people// who before had no establishe...n more than the adults. One of the results of this infection may be the life threatening condition of Necrotizing fasciitis. Adults who had suffered from MRSA in...

Study links diabetics to increased risk of urinary tract infections

...betic increases the risk of having a urinary tract infection for women who have had their menopause. The resea...al record review. The incidence of urinary tract infection for diabetic women was 12.22 per 100 person-year, while that of non-diabetic women was 6.7. Increase...

Infections in childhood may lead to adult heart disease

...udy showed that the children who suffered a severe infection showed inflexible arteries, which continued to remain so even a year after the infection. Most of these children recovered fully with time. However a small percentage of these children continued to have inflexible arteries after six months to 1yr of ...

Parasitic infections and human immunity link found

...stem and the body fights the condition. In such an infection it is very important for the human body to identify the threat before the immune system can function to fight the infection. Scientists have identified a new form of TLR called TLR 11 that alerts the immunity of the body in case of toxoplasmosis. The...

High expression of interferon induces lupus disease

...hat may attack the body’s own tissues than outside infection agents like bacteria and virus. This may lead to disease of the lungs, kidney, nervous system, joints, or even heart. When the condition affects only the internal organs, it is called systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The wide range of symptoms mak...

Antibodies to fight HIV infection.

...eveloping a vaccine that may help people fight HIV infection successfully. Reference: Nature, News release, May 2005...

New Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis B

...son to lamivudine. Chronic hepatitis B is a viral infection of the liver. The virus affects the liver and may cause long term damage like cirrhosis (scarring) of the liver, liver cancer, liver failure, and death. The virus may make the patient infected for a lifetime, with much recurrence of the symptoms. T...

Asthma may increase the risk for bacterial infection of the lungs

Asthma may increase the risk of bacterial infection of the lungs, says a study published in the New England// Journal of Medicine. Researchers had studied persons of age between 2 to 49 years for a period of one year. For each of 635 persons with invasive pneumococcal disease, 10 persons of the same ...

Experimental vaccine for shingles is effective

... fever with chills, headache or upset stomach. The infection is somewhat like chicken pox and is caused by the same virus varicella-zoster. Anyone who had chicken pox once is at a risk. Scientists say that the chicken pox virus moves into the nervous system after the attack, and reactivates as shingles. The n...

Cystic fibrosis patients may require a new treatment for bacterial infection

...Pseudomonas may in reality encourage the bacterial infection further for the patients of cystic fibrosis. The ... the biofilm thus formed in the lungs by bacterial infection with the help of an enzyme called Dnase. This enzyme is already used to break up the mucus that form...

Raisins for your gum care

...s that can help you fight cavities and// bacterial infection in the mouth. Researchers from the University of Illinois, Chicago, had found phytochemicals in raisins that can fight oral bacterial infections that leads to gum problems and caries. The researchers had identified five types of phytochemicals in th...

Cancer patients can now take once daily medication for infections

...andidiasis. Oropharyngeal candidiasis is a fungal infection in the mouth caused by the yeast Candida. This con...emoved leaves a bleeding surface. This is a common infection that plagues cancer patients during the continuation of the radiation therapy. The current treatme...

New diseases require holistic outlook to treatment

...ding animal trade that will stop the spread of the infection across the countries....

Frailty in Older Women may be due to Chronic Infection

... syndrome has been shown. CMV is a common lifelong infection but it usually does not cause symptoms in healthy ...data also showed that women who had both the viral infection and high levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6), a marker of inflammatory response, were even more likely to...

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