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New Drugs For Bad Bugs: UF Approach Could Bolster Antibiotic Arsenal

...better determine which drugs are worth studying in people and at which dose, avoiding the typically lengthy ...sults from studies that evaluated the technique in people and animals with various infections. In the past, microbiologists would expose bacteria to certain c...

HIV-1 spread through six transmission lines in the UK

...average growth rate of a doubling of the number of people infected each year, similar to that estimated for ...veloping new initiatives.?/p> More than 57,700 people in Britain have been infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 or HIV-1 since the first iden...

New lab technique identifies high levels of pathogens in therapy pool

...t concern for very young children, the elderly and people whose immune systems are compromised. The pool attendants probably became ill because they were exposed to high levels of the pathogens by working consecutive, full days in the indoor pool environment. No patients became ill at the facility. The ind...

Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola update

...nts, have been infected. There is no evidence that people can spread the virus before the onset of symptoms. Shortly after symptom onset, patients become rapidly and visibly very ill WHO is optimistic that the outbreak can be controlled if present activities continue with sufficient vigour. All the essenti...

Promising new West Nile therapy cures disease in mice

...tion-fighting antibody that mimics one produced by people whose immune systems successfully fend off the Wes...uccess warrants further development and testing in people with West Nile disease. "West Nile virus has emerged in the United States as a regular seasonal thr...

Buying Time Through Hibernation on Demand

...f this technology in humans could involve treating people suffering from severe fevers of unknown origin. Cu...th uncontrolled fever other than literally putting people on ice. Well, we believe we know how to flip the breaker on the patient's furnace; if they have a fe...

U-M team recovers ancient whale in Egyptian desert

...f this technology in humans could involve treating people suffering from severe fevers of unknown origin. Cu...th uncontrolled fever other than literally putting people on ice. Well, we believe we know how to flip the breaker on the patient's furnace; if they have a fe...

Strongest proof yet found for prion hypothesis

...an six months after inoculation. "For many years, people have tried to make these infectious prions in test tubes, because what is needed to prove the prion hypothesis completely is to be able to produce this process in vitro in the absence of living cells and thus rule out the presence of a virus," said C...

Love's all in the brain: fMRI study shows strong, lateralized reward, not sex, drive

...evant to some forms of autism," Brown added. "Some people with autism don't understand or experience any sor...e ventral pallidum portion of the basal ganglia in people with longer romantic relationships. It's in this region where receptors for the hormone vasopressin ...

Researchers uncover sequence of major rice pathogen

...ch year for killing enough rice to feed 60 million people worldwide. In the Nature paper, Dean and his co-authors shed some light on the adaptations required by a fungus to cause disease. The researchers identify novel receptors that allow the fungus to recognize its environment; secreted proteins that are...

Harmful chemicals may reprogram gene response to estrogen

.... This genetic reprogramming may determine whether people with a genetic predisposition for a disease actual...o better predict that person's cancer risk. "Most people with a family history for a particular disease are concerned about their recent exposures to harmful...

Brain-mapping technique aids understanding of sleep, wakefulness

... orexin causes narcolepsy, a rare disease in which people uncontrollably fall asleep, have excessive daytime sleepiness and experience sudden muscle weakness called cataplexy. Because orexin-producing neurons play such a key role in regulating sleep, determining how they are connected to other neurons in t...

Canadian youth 4th highest in international obesity study

...ren report, which surveyed more than 160,000 young people aged 11, 13, and 15 years in Europe and North America. The Canadian component of the WHO initiative was coordinated by Dr. William Boyce of Queen's Social Program Evaluation Group (SPEG). Also on the research team from Queen's are Drs. Peter Katzmar...

Discovery may lead to better Candidiasis drug

...the mouth, tongue and throat. It affects primarily people with weakened immune systems caused by antibiotics, chemotherapy or by diseases such as AIDS. Thrush also affects many denture wearers. The condition can be treated with antifungal medication in otherwise healthy people, said Edgerton, but it is dif...

Sickle cell and protection against malaria

...equently. The protection against malaria occurs in people who are heterozygote (HbAS), i.e., have one normal and one sickle gene, and previous work has suggested that there is an immune component to this protection. To discover whether the protection provided by HbAS is innate or varies with age, the autho...

Mystery Blood Vessel Disorder Implicated In 'Mini' Strokes

...hreatening. However, there is recent evidence that people with dolichoectasia are more likely to have aortic aneurysms, a potentially fatal weakening of the main artery that carries blood out from the heart. In an article published online February 28, 2005 in the Annals of Neurology (http://www.interscienc...

Some Brain Cells 'Change Channels' To Fine-tune The Message

...me cases, protection might be enough of a goal. In people with Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), some muscle-controlling nerve cells die because too much of the brain chemical glutamate binds to the cells' AMPA receptors, and so too much calcium gets inside. If these threatened n...

Same-Sex Mating Discovered in a Toxic Fungus

... by immunosuppressive drugs or chemotherapy -- and people with HIV/AIDS. The fungus' global importance as a ...region, or locus. Most fungal isolates taken from people infected by C. neoformans are of the alpha mating type, said study lead author and post-doctoral fel...

Potential Drug Target For Treating Cocaine Abuse Found

...ulating effect. Between 2 million and 3.2 million people in the United States ?about 1 percent of the population - use cocaine, according to estimates. Of this number, more than 550,000 are crack users. In 2002, 1.5 million Americans were thought to be dependent on or abusing cocaine. "Cocaine is capable o...

Genetic defects give the immune system the green light to attack the pancreas

...n type 1 diabetes emerges. An estimated 1 million people in the United States have type 1 diabetes. Their pancreatic beta cells can no longer make insulin. Without this crucial hormone, their body cannot convert food into energy. To sustain life, they must get insulin through injections. The disorder can e...

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