News tagged with chronic lyme disease
Chronic Lyme disease: How often is it diagnosed and treated?
The existence of chronic Lyme disease is an issue of sharp debate within the medical community. Some health care workers who call themselves "Lyme literate" insist that chronic Lyme disease is frequently diagnosed and treated ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 02, 2010 |
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Inflammatory disease treatments will improve through the use of lipidomics
According to the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 46 million Americans have arthritis. Many of these people take over-the-counter anti-inflammatory medications that block ...
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Lyme disease surge predicted for the northeastern US
The northeastern U.S. should prepare for a surge in Lyme disease this spring. And we can blame fluctuations in acorns and mouse populations, not the mild winter. So reports Dr. Richard S. Ostfeld, a disease ...
Mar 16, 2012 |
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Unique spinal fluid proteins found in chronic fatigue, lyme disease syndrome patients
Chronic fatigue syndrome knocks people down with a debilitating fatigue, but researchers have yet to identify an underlying cause. The difficulty in distinguishing CFS from nPTLS is a result of their shared ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 10, 2011 |
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Spinal fluid proteins distinguish lyme disease from chronic fatigue syndrome
Patients who suffer from Neurologic Post Treatment Lyme disease (nPTLS) and those with the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome report similar symptoms. However unique proteins discovered in spinal fluid can distinguish those two groups ...
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Feb 23, 2011 |
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Students Use Satellites to Check for Ticks
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using state-of-the-art NASA satellite information, about a dozen students from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Ala., are busy checking ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 12, 2010 |
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Panel upholds controversial Lyme disease guidelines
Recommendations released Thursday on how to treat Lyme disease are likely to fuel an ongoing debate on whether the disease is chronic and whether it's appropriate to prescribe long-term antibiotics to combat the infection.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 23, 2010 |
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Tiny details in three dimensions
They are borne by ticks and can cause acute and chronic symptoms in joints, muscles and the nervous system - the bacteria that cause Lyme borreliosis, which 80,000 people in Germany contract every year. Heidelberg ...
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Feb 13, 2009 |
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Researchers identify cell group key to Lyme disease arthritis
A research team led by the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology and Albany Medical College has illuminated the important role of natural killer (NK) T cells in Lyme disease, demonstrating that the once little understood ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 03, 2008 |
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Lingering bacteria don't indicate chronic Lyme disease
The bacteria that cause Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne illness in the United States, can linger in mouse tissues long after a full round of antibiotic treatment is completed, report researchers from the University ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Lingering Bacteria Don't Indicate Chronic Lyme Disease
The bacteria that cause Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne illness in the United States, can linger in mouse tissues long after a full round of antibiotic treatment is completed, report researchers from the University ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 31, 2008 |
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Retinal Scans Do More Than Let You In The Door
By Courtney Ostaff Scientists at MD Biotech in Morgantown, West Virginia, are working on “binoculars” that scan your retinas for more than just your identity. Dr. Chris Kolanko, the founder of MD Biotech, h ...
Aug 31, 2005 |
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