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Mouse study reveals new clues about virulence of 1918 influenza virus

... flu, which strikes hardest at the very young, the elderly and those with compromised immune function, the 1918 flu disproportionately killed young people in the prime of life. Modern analyses of 1918 flu victim autopsy samples show extreme and extensive damage to lung tissues. This observation gave rise to ...

Search on for treatment of slow-healing wounds

...ens of thousands of long-term medical patients and elderly get bedsores that turn into chronic wounds annually. Due to the poor blood circulation of many diabetics, a foot sore can develop into an open ulcer that won't heal. For diabetics, such wounds contribute to a foot or lower-leg amputation rate 10 t...

First-time analysis reveals millions of Europeans left at risk from influenza

...h Assembly resolved to aim for at least 50% of the elderly population to receive annual seasonal vaccines by 2006, and 75% by 2010. In October 2006, the WHO followed this with a call to all countries preparing for a pandemic to increase use of seasonal influenza vaccines 2 to help increase vaccine production...

Older men treated for early prostate cancer live longer than those who are not

...idated by rigorous randomized controlled trials of elderly men with localized prostate cancer before the findings can be used to influence treatment decisions." ...

Researchers identify new weapon to fight deadly bacterial sepsis

...h-dose chemotherapy for cancer. Young children and elderly people are also at a higher risk for the condition because of their weaker immune systems. Now, Assistant Professor Kota V. Ramana and Professor Satish Srivastava of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and their collaborator...

On automatic pilot

...n future provide a better understanding of how the elderly move. Pijpers and her colleagues investigated wh... these to the situation. Consequences for the elderly Pijpers' research opens up new possibilities for further research into the role of the cerebell...

Drug treatment improves learning in mice with Down syndrome symptoms, Stanford/Packard study shows

..., inconclusive studies on cognition enhancement in elderly or mentally impaired people in the 1950s, PTZ has been primarily used for the study of epilepsy in animals. In 1982 the FDA withdrew approval for the use of PTZ in humans because no clear clinical benefit had been established. That is, until now. ...

Reminding doctors which antibiotics to prescribe cuts C. difficile infection rates

...and CDI rates in three wards for acute care of the elderly where CD was endemic. When the study began, doctors working on the wards had already been told to use less cephalosporin to treat bacterial infections, but this policy had resulted in increased use of another broad-spectrum antibiotic, amoxicillin/cl...

Antivirals effectively curb influenza virus

...za readily spreads ?such as schools, homes for the elderly and workplaces ?would be beneficial not only for planning management of seasonal influenza but also would be invaluable in pandemic planning. Additionally, simple solutions such as standardized randomization and study criteria would greatly facilita...

Growth hormone is not the anti-aging bullet for healthy adults

...ata on use of human growth hormone (GH) by healthy elderly people found that the synthetic hormone was associ...the scant clinical experience of GH in the healthy elderly suggests that although GH may minimally alter body composition, it does not improve other clinically...

New research shows that flu is a trigger of heart attacks

... we would expect to see high mortality amongst the elderly and those suffering from heart problems or who have multiple coronary risk factors," he said. "Between 10 and 20% of people catch flu every year, and I have estimated that we can prevent up to 90,000 coronary deaths a year in the USA if every high ri...

Protein discovery targets antibiotic-resistant bacteria

...e treated for food poisoning with drugs tend to be elderly or “immune compromised?where there is a need for antibiotics to clear the infection. Since the organism that causes salmonellosis is related to that responsible for typhoid fever ?a huge problem in less developed countries ?the model being developed ...

Study shows hope for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's

...’s office. This makes it an ideal method to screen elderly individuals for the earliest indication of this common scourge of late life.? The researchers employed signal processing and automated neural network analysis of event related potentials (ERPs) of the EEG signals, monitoring how the patients?brains...

When your brain talks, your muscles don't always listen

...sult of age-related changes in muscle and neurons, elderly people are often frustrated by poor control during precision tasks, and slowed physical responses contribute to more falls as people grow older," Knight said. Knight and co-author Gary Kamen, who directs the Exercise Neuroscience Laboratory at the...

Fighting influenza & co. with 40,000 blood samples

... respiratory diseases such as viral influenza. For elderly people in particular, an infection can be dangerou...hildgen explains. 'What's more, in the case of the elderly the flu vaccine unfortunately only prevents the disease in six out of ten cases.' By contrast, with ...

Percutaneous aortic valve replacement safe, successful in high-risk patients

...olleagues at Montreal Heart Institute recruited 17 elderly patients with a severely narrowed aortic valve, all of whom had been turned down for surgery because of other health problems. In severe narrowing, or stenosis, of the aortic valve, the heart has difficulty pumping blood from the left ventricle to th...

UQ research heralds vaccine technology breakthrough

..., especially those with weak respiratory symptoms, elderly people and the immunocompromised, such as people with HIV or those who have weakened immune systems due to treatments such as chemotherapy. "Benefits of the vaccine will include a huge saving in health care costs," Professor Tindle said. "(It wil...

Study finds mix of disease processes at work in brains of most people with dementia

...Memory and Aging Project—an ongoing study of 1,200 elderly volunteers who have agreed to be evaluated every year and to donate their brains upon death. The current study compared clinical and autopsy data on the first 141 participants who have died. Annual physical and psychological exams showed that, whi...

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