News articles tagged with 'infections'
Structure of antibiotic ramoplanin reveals promising mechanism
— 4 Aug 2009 12:33 | HealthWith the 'last resort' antibiotic Vancomycin now plagued by the first signs of bacterial resistance, a scientific collaboration centred at Duke University has identified how a candidate... — full story
Violence against mothers in Bangladesh associated with health problems in young children
— 4 Aug 2009 11:38 | HealthAlmost half of Bangladeshi women with young children experience violence from their husbands, and their children appear to have a higher risk of recent respiratory infections and diarrhoea,... — full story
Cannibalistic cells may help prevent infections
— 4 Aug 2009 08:50 | HealthInfectious-disease specialists at UT Southwestern Medical Centre have demonstrated that a cannibalistic process in cells plays a key role in limiting Salmonella infection... — full story
Prototype, 7-foot-tall sanitiser automates disinfection of hard-to-clean hospital equipment
— 1 Aug 2009 17:10 | HealthJohns Hopkins experts in applied physics, computer engineering, infectious diseases, emergency medicine, microbiology, pathology and surgery have unveiled a 7-foot-tall, $10,000 shower-cubicle-shaped... — full story
Got zinc? New zinc research suggests novel therapeutic targets
— 30 Jul 2009 15:39 | HealthEveryone knows that vitamins 'from A to zinc' are important for good health. Now, a new research study in the August 2009 print issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology suggests that... — full story
AIDS discovered in wild chimpanzees
— 23 Jul 2009 17:33 | BiologyAlthough the AIDS virus (HIV-1) entered the human population through chimpanzees, scientists have long believed that chimpanzees don't develop AIDS. But a new study from an international... — full story
New silver nanoparticle skin gel for healing burns
— 22 Jul 2009 16:26 | HealthScientists in India are reporting successful laboratory tests of a new and potentially safer alternative to silver-based gels applied to the skin of burn patients to treat infections.... — full story
Falling birth rates shift rotavirus epidemics
— 17 Jul 2009 02:29 | HealthFewer births in states such as California may be delaying the annual onset of a common intestinal virus in the southwest, according to epidemiologists. The timing of infectious outbreaks... — full story
Lifespan of HIV-infected cells might be shorter than previously anticipated
— 1 Jul 2009 03:07 | HealthDutch-sponsored researcher Christian Althaus has used mathematical models to demonstrate that cells infected with HIV could live even shorter than was thought until now. If infected... — full story
New detector promises earlier detection of viral infections
— 29 Jun 2009 11:06 | HealthA Vanderbilt chemist and a biomedical engineer have teamed up to develop a respiratory virus detector that is sensitive enough to detect an infection at an early stage, takes only a... — full story