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Natural Killer Cells May Help Protect Against New Strains of Influenza Virus

*Swine Flu Outbreak Highlights Influenza Virus Research at Drexel University* PHILADELPHIA, May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Research conducted at Drexel University has demonstrated the importance of natural killer, or NK, cells in controlling primary influenza virus infection. These findings may hel...

Scientists identify lab-made proteins that neutralize multiple strains of seasonal and pandemic flu

Scientists have identified a small family of lab-made proteins that neutralize a broad range of influenza A viruses, including the H5N1 avian virus, the 1918 pandemic influenza virus and seasonal H1N1 flu viruses. These human monoclonal antibodies, identical infection-fighting proteins derived fro...

Allied Health Worker Shortage Strains Community Clinics

Eight in 10 Report Staffing Challenge; Clinics Struggle to Bridge Gaps SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Findings from a new survey of community clinics in California show that the shortage among allied health workers is putting a great strain on these nonprofit health organizations. Thi...

New Easter Seals-MassMutual Study: Autism Strains Family Finances, Threatens Long-Term Care and Security

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Caring for children with autism is wreaking havoc on family finances across America, jeopardizing current and long-term care and security, according to a new study, Living with Autism, released today by Easter Seals and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insuranc...

HIV Drug Might Spur Resistant Strains of Virus

Used during breast-feeding to prevent mom-to-baby transmission, nevirapine could have downside, study finds TUESDAY, Aug. 5 (HealthDay News) -- The drug nevirapine -- widely used in developing countries to prevent transmission of HIV from mothers to babies -- persists in the breast mi...

Longer flu season and unexpected strains make prevention plan key

March 24, 2008 WASHINGTON Millions of Americans took the advice to get a flu shot this season, but many are still becoming infected with the flu. This flu season is lasting longer than initially expected and has introduced unforeseen new strains of the virus, making other flu prevention steps ev...

FDA Panel OKs 3 New Flu Strains for Next Year's Vaccine

Officials hope to target versions current shot misses, but fall production may be delayed THURSDAY, Feb. 21 (HealthDay News) -- A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel on Thursday approved the inclusion of three new flu strains in next year's batch of flu vaccine, in an unusual move...

K-State Veterinary Lab Routinely Tests For Bluetongue Virus; Lab Director Says Strains Found in Kansas, U.S. Usually Less-Virulent

MANHATTAN, Kan., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Livestock producers in the United States should be cautious but not overly fearful of bluetongue virus, according to a veterinary laboratory director at Kansas State University. Gary Anderson, director of the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory ...

Scripps Florida scientists devise accelerated method to determine infectious prion strains

JUPITER, FL, May 28, 2009 Current tests to identify specific strains of infectious prions, which cause a range of transmissible diseases (such as mad cow) in animals and humans, can take anywhere from six months to a year to yield results a time-lag that may put human populations at risk. Now,...

UTMB researchers test new vaccine to fight multiple influenza strains

GALVESTON, Texas A universal vaccine effective against several strains of influenza has passed its first phase of testing, according to Dr. Christine Turley of the University of Texas at Galveston. Turley, who is director of clinical trials and clinical research at the Sealy Center for Vacc...

New Strains of TB Can Be Used as a Powerful Bioterror Weapon

Despite billions of dollars spent on national security in airports, a man infected with XDR (extensively drug resistant) tuberculosis was allowed to travel unhindered into the United States, underscoring how drug-resistant strains of the disease could be used in a bioterrorist attack against the U...

Pneumonia Strains Not Covered by Vaccines on the Rise

A new U.S. government investigation has found new pneumonia strains impervious to available vaccinations// are fast emerging. In Alaska, for instance, the native children are already protected against seven strains of pneumococcal disease due to vaccination. But the rate of serious infection b...

Peptide Found in Human Blood Inhibits 60 Strains of HIV, Study Says

A peptide found in human blood inhibited 60 strains of HIV from infecting cells in laboratory tests, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Cell//, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Researchers found the peptide can inhibit HIV strains that have developed resistance to existing m...

Less-lethal Strains of Bird Flu Virus may Become the Biggest Killer

HEALTH Experts have called for closer study of less-lethal strains of the H5N1 bird flu virus because they might be more //likely candidates to spark an influenza pandemic. Scientists have identified at least four major variants, or genotypes, of the deadly H5N1 virus since it made its first-...

Newly Identified Strains Of Chlamydia Trachomatis – A Gateway To New Disease

Chlamydia trachomatis, a bacterium, which is one of the leading cause for sexually transmitted diseases and the second leading cause for blindness globally, is said to be// evolving at a rate faster than scientists would have imagined. The scientists from Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Insti...

Threat posed by highly resistant strains of TB

An article published online this week in The Lancet warns that tuberculosis (TB) programs and HIV programs may face a threat from tuberculosis strains //that are resistant to both first-line and second-line drugs. The study conducted by a team of researchers from the United States and South A...

Multiple infectious disease strains can coexist

A study has thrown light on the observation that multiple infectious disease strains can coexist. This has been explained in the August issue of The American Naturalist//, where Ken Eames and Matt Keeling (University of Warwick) have demonstrated with the help of a mathematical model, the coexisten...

Resistant Influenza strains creates panic in US

Rick A. Bright, an immunologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that all samples of seasonal influenza virus this year have developed // resistance to adamantanes, the class of drugs which is used for the treatment for flu infection. Drugs belonging to this class lik...

Detection of Weak strains of bird flu virus – Target of European Unio

In an attempt to rapidly eliminate milder strains of avian influenza virus before it can mutate into more virulent forms, it has been proposed to broaden the target of the European Union regarding the bird flu threat. // The joint decision has been taken by agricultural ministers of the 25 differen...

Fluorescent markers to distinguish Trypanosoma brucei strains causing Sleeping Sickness

Multiple-genotype infections are increasingly recognized as important factors in disease evolution, parasite transmission dynamics, and the evolution of drug resistance. However, the distinction of co-infecting site genotypes and the tracking of their dynamics have been // ficult with traditional m...

Bird Flu Strains Detected In Wild Birds Of Mongolia

Scientists from US department of Agriculture had found the strains of bird flu disease in the wild migratory birds in Mongolia. This is for the first time the disease of avian influenza had been detected in any strain of wild birds // that have no contact with the domestic poultry, or waterfowl. ...

Bioengineering production strains - Microbia develops new methods

The recently published issue of Nature Biotechnology outlines a new method developed by Microbia Ltd.'s scientists for rapidly identifying genes required for the production of industrial molecules produced in microbes. This is an advancement in the company's ability to improve the properties// of m...

E. coli strains resistant to a common antibiotic

Food contaminated with a strain of drug-resistant E. coli has emerged as a possible new source of urinary tract infections. E. coli is a normal inhabitant of the digestive tract that can cause both intestinal upsets and urinary infections. But while E. coli from bad food is a frequent cause of diar...

African HIV strains more resistant to anti HIV drugs

Genetic variations in the HIV strains in Africa make it more difficult for the anti AIDS drugs to act on them according to researchers. This however does not mean that these drugs will be powerless against the virus but these drugs find it difficult to latch on to the protease, which is an enzyme u...

WHO Director Urges Nations to Share Bird Flu Virus Strains

Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, has called upon all member countries not to hold back any H5N1 virus samples as that would handicap the organization in the fight contain bird blu. "If you do not share the virus with us . I would fail you," said he said...

New TB Vaccines in Could Protect Against All Drug Resistant Strains

New tuberculosis (TB) vaccines in development have the potential to provide protection against all strains of TB, including multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug- resistant (XDR) TB , Dr. Jerald C. Sadoff, president and CEO of the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation, said here today at the ...

A New Test to Detect Drug-resistant HIV Strains

A new test to detect infection of drug resistant forms of HIV even when present in small quantity// has been developed by Researchers at the Duke University Medical Center. This new test is designed to detect drug-resistant viral strains even when present in small amounts contrary to other te...

Misuse Of Anti-Microbial Drugs Have Given Rise To Multidrug-resistant TB Strains

The World Health Organization conducted a survey in 79 countries under the Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance, which was set up in 1994// , and found high levels of Multidrug-resistant TB strains worldwide. These were more prevalent in certain parts of former Soviet Un...

Whirlpool Bath Tubs Contain Potentially Lethal Bacterial Strains

Researchers from Texas A&M University said that poorly maintained whirlpool bath tubs both private and public serve as breeding grounds for potentially lethal bacterial strains. They tested 43 water samples and found all of them had some kind of microbial growth.// Various Bacterial strains esp...

New Tools To Identify Flu Strains

Researchers have developed a portable la-chip called Genotyper that can identify the genetic //structure of the flu virus within hours and help the doctors to treat patients effectively. Developed by researchers from University of Michigan, the Genotyper is on its way to become fully portable ...

Rapid Swine Flu Test Misses Many Infections

... Doctors should diagnose based on symptoms and strains in circulation, experts say,, THURSDAY, Aug. 6 (HealthDay News)...flu diagnosis is best made on the basis of a person's symptoms and the flu strains in circulation. "I make the diagnosis on clinical grounds. I am comfort...

ViroPharma Announces Initiation Of Non-Toxigenic Clostridium Difficile Phase 1 Program

...(CDI). NTCD contains the spores of a non-toxin producing strain of C. difficile. "Colonization of the large bowel with non-toxin producing strains of C. difficile is known to prevent the development of symptomatic CDI," commented Dr. Colin Broom, ViroPharma's chief scientific officer. "We have...

NCCN Updates Infection Guidelines to Include Information About H1N1 Virus (Swine Flu)

...trates in febrile neutropenic patients. The updated NCCN Guidelines note that certain tests and antiviral treatments that are effective in more common strains of influenza and viruses may not be applicable to the H1N1 strain as well as other seasonal or pandemic strains. Additional noteworthy updates...

Kefir, a Probiotic-Rich Drink, May Benefit Specific Groups of Children

...encing health problems. In the study, the sickest children got the most potential benefit from drinking Kefir. "We are happy to see that the 10 strains of good bacteria in our Probug product may help certain sick kids have less antibiotic-induced diarrhea. This is just one more study that adds to th...

K-State Researcher, Collaborators Study Virulence of Pandemic H1N1 Virus; Work at K-State Would Protect Pig Industry If the Virus Jumps to Swine Populations

... The researchers also studied the virulence of two strains of the pandemic H1N1 virus in a nonhuman primate model as a way to predict how the strains would affect humans. Comparing an isolate from Cal...So the big issue now is if these Tamiflu-resistant strains take over, we have no drug to treat infected patie...

Gym Class Injuries Up 150 Percent

...oted. Boys were more likely to be injured on the head, during collisions with other people and during group activities. Girls were more apt to suffer strains and sprains to the legs and to be injured during individual activities. Most injuries (52 percent) occurred among kids in middle school, McKenzie s...

Cheerleading is Leading Cause of Catastrophic Injury in Young Women

...l or college. "If you look at cheerleading injuries, most of them are still more the common types of things that we should think about - muscle strains or pulls, ligament injuries, tendon injuries," Miller Bohn says. "The concern is that there are certainly a fair number of increasingly severe injurie...

New national study finds increase in P.E. class-related injuries

...rics , the most common PE-related injuries were lower-extremity sprains and strains (23 percent), followed by upper extremity sprains and strains (14 percent) and fractures (14 percent). Middle school-aged children (11-14...

Scientists ID First Human With Gorilla Strain of HIV

...uggests that it has made it through several "rounds" of infection, Johnston said. "The jury is still out as to whether this is bad news relative to strains of HIV that are already circulating," she said. "We just can't draw those kinds of conclusions from one person." The woman's case is unusual, howev...

Rock-Climbing Injury Rate Soaring

...er than 20 feet had 10 times the likelihood on needing to be hospitalized, compared with those who fell from lesser heights. Fractures, sprains and strains made up almost half the injuries, with the lower part of the body being the area most likely to be hurt. The average age of an injured climber was ...