Mother's Milk: Nutrition And Nurture For Infants -- And The Best Defense Against Disease
...is that certain antibodies inbreast milk may mimic bacterial and viral proteins. Such mimicry would have theeffect of priming the infant immune system to respond more vigorously when laterexposed to actual pathogen proteins. A number of studies over the last decade have also revealed the presenceof mor...Researchers Synthesize Compounds For New Class Of Antibiotics
...ymes, as do humans. Myxopyronin A and B attack the bacterial enzymes whileleaving the human host alone. In recent years, the incidence of infectious diseases has soared, alongwith deaths resulting from them. At the same time, the need for new antibioticshas risen steadily as bacteria have developed a r......ontributes to the increase in antibiotic-resistant bacterial diseases. In this week's BMJ, Professor Hart from the University of Liverpool and Dr Kariuki of the Kenya Medical Research Institute review the progress of antibacterial resistance in diseases including pneumococcal meningitis, tuberculosis and typho...... an amelogenin proteinfrom a mouse, placed it in a bacterial cell, and then used the bacterialreproductive process to produce an identical recombinant amelogenin protein. This recombinant amelogenin protein, which the researchers can now produce inquantity, has since been shown to self-assemble to make nanosph......tivestress, maintain normal tissue and control the bacterial damage appears to becompromised." More research is needed to sort out the mechanisms by which antioxidantsare protective in periodontal tissue, and to conduct intervention studies totest the effects of antioxidants on gum tissues, she noted. Additio...Antibiotics Reduce Inflammation In Heart Disease But Effect On Heart Attacks Remains Unproven
... "We once thought peptic ulcers were unrelated to bacterial infection,but we know today that they can be effectively treated with antibiotics. Weneed to find out if the same could prove true of heart disease," he continues. The ongoing two-year trial reported in Circulation includes 302individuals wi...Migraine Pain: Not Mainly In The Brain
...graine headache are the same as in meningitis, the bacterial or viralinflammation of the meninges: throbbing headache, nausea, and sensitivity tolight and sound." While the work is a very small pilot study, the SPECT images undeniablylink the site of pain with the meninges, Pappagallo says. "There's no...New Model Shows How To Eradicate World's Leading Infectious Cause Of Blindness
...f infection receive special treatment. Trachoma, a bacterial eye infection, affects some 150 million people worldwide.Children are particularly vulnerable. Reinfection causes scarring that can leadto blindness, and currently, some six million people have been left sightlessfrom the infection. Arid, rural regio......linical events"including opportunistic infections, bacterial pneumonia or death, it did reducethe incidence of ...e a diagnosis of AIDS and other infections such as bacterial pneumonia,bacteremia and urinary tract infections) determined that LEUKINE increased themedian time ...Unexpected target may unlock the door to fighting sepsis
...he July 1999 issue of Nature Medicine. Sepsis is a bacterial infection of the blood or body tissues that kills half ofthe hundreds of thousands of people who get the disease each year in the UnitedStates. Investigators found that when they blocked C5a, a protein product that isnormally activated by the immune ...Bacterial vaginosis seems to affect miscarriage in early pregnancy
Influence of bacterial vaginosis on conception and miscarriage in the fir...rom Leeds General Infirmary found that even though bacterial vaginosis did not affect conception, it was associated with a two-fold risk of miscarriage in the fi...Adhesive tape connected to hospital infections
...d, only five per cent of specimens had significant bacterial growth. "In the grand scheme of things, infections are a function of many other thingswith the patient and bacteria can be found almost anywhere. But it appears thatdiscarding the outer layer of tape is one simple way of reducing the risk ofbacteria...Jefferson scientist sees drug profiles and tailor-made therapies as ways to beat HIV resistance
...ly what we did inthe early part of the century for bacterial infections such as tuberculosis,when people were developing resistance." But detailing the precise viral genetic make-up of each HIV-infectedindividual would cause treatment costs to rise significantly, he says. Thiswould be a particular prob...Even in an era of HAART Drugs, HIV patients are vulnerable to opportunistic infections
...nts who underwent prophylaxis therapy to prevent a bacterial infectioncaused by Mycobacterium avium complex (MA...earch to PreventBlindness, Inc., and the macrolide bacterial resistance study received supportfrom Abbott Laboratories.......ng azithromycin withplacebo for preventing MAC and bacterial pneumonia among patients withsignificant rebound in CD4+ T-cell count. Interim results are similar to thefindings of the ACTG study.......nd." In a person, the TB microbe causes a chronic bacterial infection that usuallyaffects the lungs but also attacks other organs. It is spread through the airwhen a person with active TB disease of the lungs or larynx coughs, sneezes, orshouts. It is most prevalent in densely populated areas and the inner-...Changing approaches to treating gum disease
...cases of periodontal disease are actuallytreatable bacterial infections, dental researchers and clinicians are changingtheir ideas about how to deal with the problem, writes Prof. Walter L. Loescheof the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in the current issue ofCritical Reviews of Oral Biology and Medi...Study examines STDs among women-to-women sex partners
...ving sex with other women have ahigh prevalence of bacterial vaginosis, or BV, for reasons the study is tryingto clarify. BV is a common cause of vaginitis and abnormal vaginal discharge. Itmay also be to blame for one out of five cases of preterm labor or babies bornwith low birth weights. BV appears to occur......rity on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of bacterial infections, says meningococcal infection is a very dangerous situation that can kill within just a few hours. "The bacteria travel through the bloodstream, frequently reaching the meninges, the lining of the brain and spinal cord, and causing the inf......espiratory infections and rank first amongst adult bacterial diseases requiring medical attention. The majority of sufferers are women as the female urethra is shorter than that of the male. By the age of thirty, 20% will have suffered a UTI with many having recurrent episodes. The most common complaint affect...