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New strategies to reduce hospital-aquired infections

...s Angeles. Joseph Cervia, MD, a leading infectious disease expert, professor of Clinical Medicine and Pediatr...al more to be done. He stated that the infectious disease community can take the lead in solving the problem and that they can also look to the experience and...

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...s Angeles. Joseph Cervia, MD, a leading infectious disease expert, professor of Clinical Medicine and Pediatr...al more to be done. He stated that the infectious disease community can take the lead in solving the problem and that they can also look to the experience and...

Important discovery about second most fatal cancer

...ecent years that colorectal cancer is not a single disease but a group of diseases, each with a different cause and behaviour. The genetic basis of this new syndrome is not known but it is speculated that affected families have a genetic predisposition to develop DNA methylation. There is already evidence th...

15-year hunt finds cause of pseudothalidomide syndrome

...g of craniofacial and limb development, health and disease beyond the rare disease itself, say the researchers. Because of advances in technology and computer analysis, the researche...

'Smart drug' targets deadly brain cancer

...patient survival is 12 to 16 months, and recurrent disease has a dismal prognosis. The World Health Organizat...vival is 12 to 16 months. For patients in whom the disease recurs, the prognosis is indeed dismal: there are no good treatment options. The Next Step Mayo Cl...

Sugar beet virus mutation requires Texas touch

... Beet necrotic yellow vein virus, which causes the disease known as rhizomania, was found near Hereford in 19...al and epidemiological aspects of the pathogen and disease ?what could producers do to reduce the incidence and severity of the disease. "We started doing a l...

Researchers find gene that may be at root of potato blight

...nt pathogen that causes late blight, a devastating disease that can destroy fields of potato and tomato plant...ending on the plant variety, can either facilitate disease or trigger resistance. Avr3a scouts a potato plant on the cellular level to determine whether the p...

WHO suspends Marburg work, appeals for new funds

...nderstanding of the disease. Moreover, because the disease has no cure, hospitalization is not associated wit...gagement, local belief systems about the causes of disease and traditional rituals for mourning the dead must be respected. When the public understands and acc...

Gov't Creates Gene Database of Normal Human Tissues

...entists searching for genes that go awry and cause disease can use the NCI database as a crucial point of ref... the database as abnormally active in a particular disease could become potential targets, guiding researchers to better candidates for new drug therapies, imm...

Research into how prions act in the brain could hold the key to defeating diseases

...le variant CJD (vCJD) in the UK. This is the human disease thought to be caused by eating food contaminated w...simple and accurate way to diagnose types of prion disease such as vCJD, no effective way of managing or treating patients and no cure is yet in sight. Estima...

NHGRI targets 12 more organisms for genome sequencing

...nisms utilized in research on drug development and disease susceptibility. They are: sequencing the genome of...logical studies of multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease. The marmoset is also an important model for research into infectious disea...

Owl genomics presents a HEPATOCHIP for diagnosis of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

...s. Non alcoholic steatohepatitis is a progressive disease of the liver of unknown etiology, characterized hi...H is also expected to increase and therefore, this disease has become an emerging public issue in United States as well as in other developed countries The HE...

UCLA study assesses cost-effectiveness of Hepatitis B drugs

...current modern drugs for treating hepatitis B -- a disease affecting 350 million worldwide. Published in the... virus attacks liver cells and chronic hepatitis B disease can lead to liver failure, cirrhosis or cancer of the liver. About 90 percent of healthy adults who ...

Nanobacteria in clouds could spread disease, scientists claim

... clouds could play a crucial role in the spread of disease and in the formation of rain drops, scientists have claimed. The radical theories about nanobacteria ?micro-organisms considerably smaller than ordinary bacteria - in clouds are published in two recent articles in the Journal of Proteome Research by...

Researchers Find New Technique To Identify Fetal Genetic Material From Amniotic Fluid

...n fetuses of different sexes, gestational age, and disease status," the authors report. "Cell-free mRNA in amniotic fluid appears to originate from the fetus and not the placenta." In conclusion the authors write: "The intriguing gene expression differences observed suggest that this technology could facilit...

Rabies spread speeds up

... depends on predicting the spatial dynamics of the disease - where new outbreaks might occur and how the virus might spread. In a new study reported in the freely-available online journal PLoS Biology, Real and colleagues apply a mathematical model to predict the likely spread of rabies across Ohio - a poten...

Scientists identify genes responsible for 'black rot' disease in vegetables

... of "black rot" disease, which is the most serious disease of vegetable crops worldwide. Their study, which r...anifest the characteristic symptoms of "black rot" disease when infected. To date, there is no effective treatment for Xcc infection, so in hopes of developin...

Affymetrix and bioMerieux Extend Their Agreement on GeneChip(R) Technology to Breast Cancer Diagnostics

...icians to provide a more holistic understanding of disease and treatment," said Dr. Dirk Lammerts, M.D., Affymetrix' Vice President of Molecular Diagnostics. "bioMerieux is at the cutting edge of diagnostic technology and we are pleased that they have chosen the Affymetrix platform for this project." Under ...

Ebola virus: from wildlife to dogs

...ion and rapid control of epidemics by isolation of disease victims can limit its spreading. Since 2001, IRD research scientists and their partners (1) have been working to unravel the virus's biological cycle, in other words the whole range of ways in which the virus circulates in its natural environment, f...

Researchers test new therapy for advanced melanoma

...umors disappeared and the treated animals remained disease free for the full length of the study (100 days), Dr. Heller said. Furthermore, he said, even when melanoma cells were reinjected into the cured mice the tumors were rejected. This indicates the immune system formed a memory response that recognized...

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