Selenium supplements may contribute to reduced HIV viral load
...), HIV viral load (the number of copies of the HIV virus in the blood) and screening for hepatitis C. Participants were then randomly assigned to treatment groups; 141 took a capsule containing 200 micrograms of high-selenium yeast and 121 took a similar capsule containing inactive yeast and a filler mate...Bird flu -- Call for antiviral drugs to be shared
...fectious individual infects on average) of the new virus that emerges. If this number is low, it will take many months before the virus spreads w orldwide and there will be plenty of time to bring an effective vaccine into use. But if t...Drug resistance in an influenza pandemic
...nt infection; and in what proportion of people the virus might become resistant to drugs. The modeling led to three main predictions. First, it predicted that widespread use of antiviral drugs such as oseltamivir would quickly lead to the spread of resistant viruses, even if resistant strains emerged on...A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go to work
... consumption of the sugar. "Current bacteria and virus delivery systems produce their drugs non-stop, but for many treatments there is a narrow concentration range at which drugs are beneficial," said Professor Carding. "Outside of this, the treatment can be counterproductive and make the condition worse...Rapid flu tests may reduce threat of antibiotic resistance
...ve antibiotics as the safest choice, even though a virus may be the cause of their patient's illness," said Falsey, noting that 90 percent of people with the flu who see a doctor are given antibiotics, even though the drugs won't help. The simplest solution to antibiotic resistance would be for doctors ...New amfAR research grants aim to advance understanding and prevention of rectal HIV transmission
...rld, little is known about the extent to which the virus is spread by anal intercourse. Dr. Joanne Mantell,... strive to understand the interactions between the virus and the cells in the rectum and colon that can tip the scale towards the establishment of infection....Resurgence and spread of syphilis in China is a rapidly increasing epidemic
...th transmitting and getting infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Cohen, who has worked in China since 1979, designed and planned the research along with co-author Dr. Xiang-Sheng Chen of the National Center for STD Control in Nanjing. Cohen said the development oflongstanding collaborations wit...Response to anti-HIV therapy improved if treatment begins six months after preventive regimen
...er, that the single nevirapine dose could make the virus resistant to the drug, which may make it less likely that a woman will respond to nevirapine if she needs it later, as part of a multi-drug anti-HIV regimen, to safeguard her own health. The single dose of nevirapine eliminates most of the copies of...NIAID DNA vaccine for H5N1 avian influenza enters human trial
...ines, which are developed by growing the influenza virus in hens' eggs and then administered as a weakened ...genic viruses such as the H5N1 strain and the H1N1 virus that caused the deadly 1918 pandemic. The DNA vaccine used in this study is similar to other investi...Racial differences seen in steatosis in patients with hepatitis C
Caucasian patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) are more likely to have hepatic steatosis, or fat in the liver, compared to African-American patients. However, steatosis is not associated with HCV treatment response. These findings are published in the January 2007 issue of Hepatology, the o...New details on how the immune system recognizes influenza
...ehensive analysis to date of published influenza A virus epitopes--the critical sites on the virus that are recognized by the immune system. The findings, reported by researchers at the La Jolla Inst...St. Jude, El Salvador create research ethics committee
... to dengue hemorrhagic fever (a potentially deadly virus infection); and the training of 100 Salvadoran nurses to care for patients with HIV/AIDS. As part of the collaboration, a clinical investigator from Hospital Bloom received training at St. Jude, which included learning how to obtain a Federal Wid...Could the ability to expel worms lead to a future asthma treatment?
...best destroy the invader at hand, be it bacterium, virus or worm. In 1986, Tim Mosmann, Ph.D., now director of the David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, led a team that first described a new concept for how the immune system might make such ...MGH study examines impact of infection with both HIV and hepatitis C virus
...ugh many individuals infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) are naturally able to control levels of the virus with their immune systems, those who also become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, may ...Hajj pilgrims should get flu jab to avoid pandemic
...makes the possible rampant spread of the influenza virus and a global pandemic a potentially devastating pr... authorities to minimise the risk of the influenza virus spreading among pilgrims (and the rest of us). A coherent international response will be needed to e...Aggressive stem cells might improve transplant outcome
...ystem, and so reduce the risk of potentially fatal virus infections that can occur during this time. The St. Jude team showed that the current way of harvesting specific stem cells from donated bone marrow to capture many of the stem cells called CD34+ cells fails to capture many of the cells that might ...'GreeneChip' -- New diagnostic tool that rapidly and accurately identifies multiple pathogens
...e. Within six to eight days of infection, Marburg virus causes an acute febrile illness that frequently progresses to liver failure, delirium, shock, and hemorrhage. From October 2004 through July 2005, a Marburg outbreak in Angola resulted in 252 cases of hemorrhagic fever, with 90% of the cases fatal. ...New research identifies gene important for nicotine's effects on the brain
...r new study shows that using a genetically altered virus that blocks CREB activity in the nucleus accumbens blocks nicotine reward. "We and other researchers have begun to make very strong links between individual molecules in the brain and nicotine-related behaviors," said Picciotto. "By identifying mol...Study shows interruption of antiretroviral therapy increases risk of disease and death
... strategies for people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Findings from the study, published in the N...low for the emergence of the predominant wild-type virus in patients infected with multidrug-resistant HIV. However, our data clearly demonstrate that contin...New study finds no link between Kawasaki disease and newly discovered coronavirus
A newly described virus is not a cause of Kawasaki disease, according to an article by a group of researchers in Denver, Colorado. Their article appears in the Dec. 15 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online. The cause or causes of Kawasaki dise...