Clinical trial evaluates first-line approaches for treating HIV
...assistant professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at the University of Pittsburgh School of...Haubrich, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at UCSD School of Medicine. All of the drugs used in the clinical trial are approved for ...Eliminating blindness the safe way
...this week's issue of The Lancet. Trachoma is an infectious eye disease affecting around 84 million people. It is one of the leading causes of preventable blindness worldwide. The bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis causes trachoma by triggering inflammation and scarring the eyelid. Trachoma is rife in overcrowde...Never marrieds run highest risk of early death
...es of death among those who had never married were infectious disease and "external" factors. Among the middle aged and elderly, the main causes were cardiovascular and chronic diseases. Never married men were more vulnerable than their never married female counterparts, and never married men between the ages...Immune responses in trachoma, and more
...on with Chlamydia trachomatis, remains the leading infectious cause of blindness and in 2002 was responsible for 3.6% of total global blindness. In a paper published in PLoS Medicine, Martin Holland and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have studied the human immune response to ...Researcher studies sleep deprivation's effect on decisions
... including combat casualty care and technology and infectious disease research. The researcher and his team recruited 40 volunteers with good sleep habits who agreed to live in a lab for six days. For their stay, volunteers lived two normal days and nights, stayed awake for 64 hours and then were allowed agai...Columbia U receives $16.9M award to study origin and health effects of arsenic in ground water
...contaminated surface water, which caused a host of infectious diseases, particularly fatal diarrheal diseases in young children. Ironically, the arsenic crisis arose as a result of the well-intentioned efforts of non-governmental organizations, which installed millions of tube wells throughout the country in an...Call for data on reuse of surgical instruments to allay fears over vCJD transmission
... a single instrument is re-used, combined with how infectious contaminated instruments are and how effective the cleaning is. The authors begin by presenting data on the surgical procedures undertaken on vCJD patients prior to the onset of clinical symptoms which support the hypothesis that cases via this rou...Health-care workers' SARS protective clothing systems
...nfection from threats such as SARS, other emerging infectious diseases, and bio-terrorism are still vulnerable to contamination, a Queen's University study has found. "The strengths and limitations of each protective system need to be considered when recommendations are made about which choice of system, do...Baylor Institute for Immunology research receives $3 million grant to create cancer vaccines
...reat disease in the areas of cancer, autoimmunity, infectious disease and transplantation. The success of this program will bring new innovative therapies to the community." Dr. Banchereau and BIIR scientists Karolina Palucka, M.D., Ph.D., the Michael A. E. Ramsay Chair for Cancer Immunology Research, and Jos...NIDA announces recommendations to treat drug abusers, save money and reduce crime
...educe the spread of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, and other infectious diseases among drug abusing offenders--all critically important issues in today's society." Untreated substance abuse adds significant costs to communities, including violent and property crimes, prison expenses, court and criminal costs, emergency...ASU's Biodesign Institute Director George Poste awarded 2006 Albert Einstein Award
..., recognized for his role in the control of global infectious and parasitic diseases and for his leadership in the development of new drugs, vaccines and diagnostics. Co-honorees for the Einstein award were Professor James Rothman of Columbia University in New York and Carl Feldbaum, President Emeritus of th...Chronic middle ear infections linked to resistant biofilm bacteria
... endorses the emerging biofilm paradigm of chronic infectious disease, said Garth Ehrlich, Ph.D., principal inve...es are placed in the eardrum to continuously drain infectious fluid (called effusion). Working with Dr. Kerschner, Drs. Ehrlich and Post obtained middle ear mu...ACP and The Doctors Company offer liability insurance credit
...nology, gastroenterology, gerontology, hematology, infectious disease, nephrology, neurology, oncology, pulmonary medicine, and rheumatology. There is no additional discount beyond the 5 percent credit for maintaining certifications in both general internal medicine and a subspecialty. The discount is available...Prion disease infectivity causes heart damage in mouse study
... to filter or chemically treat blood to remove any infectious prion disease agents, says Dr. Chesebro. ...Study details why listeriosis rates are 20-fold higher during pregnancy
...iche for pathogens. Bakardjiev, who is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist, chose guinea pigs for these studies because of similarities between the placentas of these rodents and women. Pregnant guinea pigs and women also respond similarly to Listeria infection, exhibiting few symptoms, yet almost invari...For men, catheter type makes a huge difference in urinary infection risk, study finds
...gs about a hospital stay that men loathe, and that infectious bacteria love: the urinary catheter. Now, a new study shows that a less-unpleasant option for male hospital patients is also a much safer one. In fact, men whose urine was collected with an external or "condom" catheter during their hospital stay h...Lancet and Mexican government to hold meeting on health-system reform
... threats. This 'double burden of disease' includes infectious threats, child and maternal mortality, and new dangers, such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and cancer. Over the past 6 years Mexico has been a 'global laboratory' for health system reform to address these problems. Their and o...Cranberries contain possible anti-caries/anti-plaque agents
...ooth decay). Dental caries is the most common oral infectious disease that afflicts humans. More than 95% of all adults have experienced this disease. It is more common than asthma, hay fever, or chronic bronchitis in 5- to 17-year-old children. The American public spends close to $40 billion per year to treat ...International Association for Dental Research presents awards & fellowships
... the immune processes which occur in resistance to infectious agents and in recovery from infectious diseases. Although he has shown the importance of cell-mediated immune responses in several systems,...... including combat casualty care and technology and infectious disease research. Kochanek's research, funded by the same DoD program, focuses on which resuscitation fluid to use after a traumatic brain injury occurs and hemorrhagic shock ensues. In Operation Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, he said, 22 percen...