News tagged with chronic viral infections
Boosting body's immune response may hold key to HIV cure
Australian scientists have successfully cleared a HIV-like infection from mice by boosting the function of cells vital to the immune response.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 03, 2011 |
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Death certificates confirm non-HIV-attributable diseases cause increase in US PLWHA deaths
During the decade since the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), or 1996-2006, mortality among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) sharply decreased in the United States. So, too, did the percentages of ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 01, 2010 |
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New study casts doubt over ME virus link
A new study published in the British Medical Journal today casts doubt on recent claims that a human retrovirus known as XMRV is linked to chronic fatigue syndrome or ME (myalgic encephalitis).
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 26, 2010 |
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Chronic infection now clearly tied to immune-system protein (w/Video)
A new study finds the cross-talk between 'killer T-cells' and 'helper T-cells' can only happen in the presence of interleukin-21, a powerful immune-system protein. UAB researchers say if interleukin-21 is missing, the immune ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 14, 2009 |
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Immune exhaustion driven by antigen in chronic viral infection
A main reason why viruses such as HIV or hepatitis C persist despite a vigorous initial immune response is exhaustion. The T cells, or white blood cells, fighting a chronic infection eventually wear out.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 13, 2009 |
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Scientists identify how key protein keeps chronic infection in check
Why is the immune system able to fight off some viruses but not others, leading to chronic, life-threatening infections like HIV and hepatitis C?
May 08, 2009 |
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COPD patients often given wrong treatment
(PhysOrg.com) -- Generally speaking, patients with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) deteriorate suddenly, in bursts, often as a result of bacterial or viral infections.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Small molecules block cancer gene
Finding molecules that block the activity of the oncogene Stat 3 (signal transducer and activator of transcription) required screening literally millions of compounds, using computers that compared the structure of the cancer-causing ...
Mar 10, 2009 |
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