Stress levels can affect success of pneumonia vaccinations
...antibody formed by the body to fend off pneumococcal bacteria. Strong IgG levels indicated a healthy immune response ready to protect against the disease while weaker levels mean that a person could be at risk for pneumonia. ...Studies offer new treatment option to prevent kidney rejection
...uggests it may not be the most effective weapon to fend off organ rejection and may even damage some donor kidneys. The research, to be presented Nov. 2 at the American Society of Nephrology annual meeting, identified another drug that seems to work better, a finding that could help expand the pool of don...New Alzheimer projections add urgency to search for prevention, cure
...Goldberg. "Either increase funding for research to fend off this looming public health disaster, or sit back and wait for it to overwhelm the health care system." The study suggests the increases in the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease are a result of the rapid growth of the oldest age group 85 years an...NIAID opens innovative treatment study for West Nile virus
...al of disease-fighting weapons--are better able to fend off the severe symptoms of WNV, such as encephalitis, that contribute to the deaths of many individuals who become infected. Omrix, an Israeli company partnering with NIAID on this study, has an immunoglobulin product that contains antibodies to WNV...World AIDS Day program shows how AIDS affects its smallest victims in AIDS Orphans: Lost Childhood
...e. The children of AIDS victims must learn how to fend for themselves because either their parents are too sick to work or have died. Orphans like Mbali Mbata, 13, and her brother, Sne-Themba, 7, have inherited a fate beyond comprehension: surviving alone scared, stigmatized and grieving with no one to...Duke physicians predict risks of deadly infections after cord blood transplants
...cells into transplant patients to more effectively fend off opportunistic infections, said Paul Szabolcs, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics and immunology at the Duke Pediatric Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program. Children are at highest risk of infection during the first 100 days after...Second NIAID SARS vaccine candidate helps mice fend off SARS
...-immunized mice. The non-immunized mice could then fend off SARS infection almost as well as vaccinated mice. Now that the essential role of S protein in a SARS vaccine has been demonstrated, says Dr. Moss, the researchers will begin to selectively modify the protein in an effort to enhance its immune-s...Poor kids' health insurance situation changes often, affecting their medical care, study finds
...rollment in public programs were erected partly to fend off an effect called "crowd out," in which some low-income families were expected to drop their private insurance coverage for their children in order to enroll them in SCHIP public insurance programs. Davis and his colleagues saw little evidence of......t also ways to stimulate these laryngeal mucosa to fend off harmful antigens that cause asthma or to wipe out cancer cells, as they are designed to do, Birchall said. "We are really just scratching the surface." Course directors for the international conference are Jamie Koufman, M.D., Greg Postma, M.D., ...