Community MRSA is re-emergence of 1950's pandemic
...pandemic 40-50 years ago could mean that community acquired MRSA will spread faster and be more widespread tha...orld. This pandemic of both hospital and community acquired infections waned throughout the 1960s as the antibiotic meticillin was used to treat these infection...Carnegie Mellon researchers open window into the ability of humans to recognize faces
..."The detective work is well under way." Unlike the acquired form of prosopagnosia--which results from brain damage such as that suffered in a stroke--congenital prosopagnosia can go undetected, as the person has no means of comparison with normal face processing skills. This can have socially debilitating con...Risk of HIV transmission highest in early stage of infection
....8 per 1000 coital acts. Among partners with newly acquired HIV infection, more than 40 percent transmitted to their partners within approximately 5 months. These results reflect transmission rates for heterosexual vaginal intercourse only, the authors noted, and cannot be applied to HIV transmission via ana...Charter activation brings space dimension to European emergency exercise
...S satellite imagery available. Once the images are acquired they will be transmitted to the Strasbourg-based firm SERTIT for processing and interpretation before delivery to COGIC. Serving as they increasingly do in real emergencies, high-resolution satellite images provide up-to-date maps of buildings, roads...Gene expression pattern predicts multiple drug resistance, treatment failure in pediatric leukemia
...particular pattern of gene expression, rather than acquired through genetic mutation during treatment. Cross-resistance to multiple drugs suggests a poor prognosis and likely involves biochemical mechanisms that are different from those linked to single-drug resistance. The investigators sought to identify t...Exercise slows development of Alzheimer's-like brain changes in mice, new study finds
...ls to find the escape platform. The exercised mice acquired maximal performance after only 2 days on the task, while it took more than 4 days for the sedentary mice to reach that same level of performance. This suggests that exercise may help to offset learning/cognitive deficits present in AD patients. Next,...Color doppler sonography speeds detection of serious illness in premature infants
...adiology . Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is an acquired inflammatory gastrointestinal disease of unknown cause. It is the most common and serious gastrointestinal disorder among hospitalized premature babies, according to the Nemours Foundation. Symptoms include the inability to feed, abdominal bloating a...Internet program launched to prevent blindness in diabetic patients
...g stage, the team is using a Canon retinal camera, acquired through a grant from the North Carolina Lions Foundation. A diabetic retinopathy reading center is being established at the School of Medicine in cooperation with the Department of Ophthalmology. William P. Moran, M.D., formerly head of the Section o...Two studies document rise of superbugs in the environment
...children. They found that among S. aureus isolates acquired in the community, the proportion of isolates that ...eceding three years, the number of MRSA infections acquired in the community had more than doubled. The MRSA isolates caused skin and soft tissue infections in ...Is the vaccine industry ailing?
... Furthermore, larger pharmaceutical companies have acquired firms that previously had vaccines as their sole or primary product. So in competing against drugs for a company's internal resources, vaccines most often lose. Among the four large pharmaceutical companies still making vaccines, says Dr. Offit, vacc...Leprosy genome tells story of human migrations, French researchers report in Science
...ives in humans and in armadillos (which might have acquired the bacterium by eating infected human cadavers), and it can also grow in the footpads of mice. Cole and his international research team compared the genomes of seven strains of M. leprae taken from patients around the world and then grown in armad...Heart scan surprises: CT reveals many non-heart problems, too
...in the last year, U-M and other major centers have acquired even more powerful 64-slice CT scanners that can image the entire chest in just a few seconds, allowing even the fast-moving heart muscle and arteries to be seen clearly. The simultaneous rapid increases in the precision and utilization of CTCA, says...New class of drugs may treat lung tumors resistant to Iressa and Tarceva
...mutations are similar to mutations associated with acquired resistance to Gleevec and other targeted cancer th...sistant tumor cells. None of these resistant lines acquired a secondary mutation in EGFR, but they appeared to have changes in the intricate way the receptor re...Disease progression model of pancreatic cancer developed by Penn researchers
...ood that this variability resulted from additional acquired mutations in known key tumor suppressor pathways, Hingorani suggests, "there may actually be unique genetic routes to pancreatic cancer, such that not all pancreatic cancers are equivalent." The development of the first animal model for pancreatic c...Bad metabolism in blood vessels linked to high blood pressure and atherosclerosis
...ng. The body doesn't produce them, so they must be acquired through the diet. Deficiency in essential fatty acids is thought to contribute to atherosclerosis. Armed with the results of this study, Semenkovich believes a deficiency in essential fatty acids may cause changes in the way metabolism occurs in the ...Home care patients suffering high rate of pneumonia, complications
...uffering from Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP is acquired outside of hospitals) account for 25 of every 1,000 people who visited emergency rooms suffering pneumonia. In addition, 90 per cent of those people had to be admitted to hospital for treatment. They also had a mortality rate 11 per cent higher than ...Study links regions of two chromosomes to susceptibility for type of autism
...ntal regression can include the loss of previously acquired language, social skills or both. Moreover, the study is the first to identify involvement of chromosome 21 in this type of autism. This may explain the increased prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) among children with Down syndrome, who ha...Chest x-rays not effective in determining when TB acquired
...ues allow comparison of patients who have recently acquired tuberculosis to those whose tuberculosis was acquired long ago. The researchers in this study used molecular fingerprinting and conventional epidemiology...Chronic infection may contribute to frailty in older women
... years. It is unique because it links an infection acquired earlier in life with functional consequences in old age. Further data showed that women who had both the viral infection and high levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6), a marker of inflammatory response, were even more likely to be frail than those who had ......al TB-fighting abilities. In 2002, the TB Alliance acquired exclusive worldwide rights to PA-824 from the California-based biotechnology firm, Chiron Corporation. NIAID provided support to the TB Alliance for continued development of PA-824 through the Institute's Tuberculosis Antimicrobial Acquisition and Co...