Immunology

The Human Role In Spread Of 90 Percent Of Hospital Infections

People treated in hospitals and other health care settings are increasingly at risk of infection with multidrug-resistant bacteria. Many of these microbes produce enzymes called extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs), which make them resistant to antibioti ...

Article - News Staff - May 31 2019 - 8:12am

Kids With Pneumonia Get Too Many Antibiotics And Chest X-Rays

Health care has become political and that means everyone wants everything for little money, at least when it comes to their own treatment or those in their family. The other edge of the political sword is lawyers waiting to sue, which has led to high malpr ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2019 - 12:55pm

Multiple Sclerosis Patients Have A 66% Greater Risk Of Respiratory Cancer

A 65-year follow-up study of 6,883 patients with Multiple Sclerosis suggests they have a greater overall risk of developing cancer than the general population, with an especially high risk of cancer in respiratory organs, urinary organs and the central ne ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2019 - 11:12am

SLIT Therapy for Treating Peanut Allergy

Edwin Kim, M.D., and colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered a new and effective treatment for patients suffering from peanut allergy. The treatment is called sublingual immunotherapy, or SLIT, and involves the adminis ...

Blog Post - Scott Beers - Sep 6 2019 - 2:23pm

Happy 40th Birthday To The Official Eradication of Smallpox

In December 1979, smallpox was officially declared eradicated but it had already happened by then, thanks to the efforts of giants like Drs. Don Henderson and Bill Foege, not to mention 150,000 international workers pushing the disease first out of Europe ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 13 2019 - 4:09pm

Welcome Back To The 19th Century- Strep A Is Causing Scarlet Fever In U.K.

A new strain of disease-causing bacteria has been identified which may explain a rise in more serious Strep A infections in England and Wales, according to results from cases published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal.  ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2019 - 6:46am

Mosquitoes That Spread Zika, Dengue, Yellow Fever Spreading In California

Two invasive species of mosquitoes that can carry Zika, dengue, yellow fever and other dangerous viruses are spreading in California — and have been found as far north as Sacramento and Placer counties. There are now 16 counties where Aedes aegypti, commo ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2019 - 5:00am

Lyme Disease Claim Lines On Medical Forms Up 117% Since 2007

Since 2007, claim lines with diagnoses of Lyme disease increased nationally 117 percent, according to a new white paper. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2019 - 11:05am

Too Little Is Known About Probiotics To Say They Work

We don't actually know whether probiotics have a measurable impact on digestive health- and if it is positive. brownpau /Flickr, CC BY-SA By Paul Bertrand, RMIT University; Andrew Ball, RMIT University, and Kate Polglaze, RMIT University ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 15 2020 - 2:00pm

BCG: New Life For The 99-Year-Old Tuberculosis Vaccine?

After Robert Koch first separated Mycobacterium bovis from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and seeing the success of vaccination in preventing smallpox, scientists believed that infection with bovine tuberculosis might protect against human tuberculosis. It wa ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 21 2020 - 11:41am