News tagged with immune control

Passive smoking in our homes and cars remains major hazard to the health of our children

(PhysOrg.com) -- Parents need to be better informed about the risks to their children of passive smoking according to a report from the Royal College of Physicians and backed by the UK Centre for Tobacco Control ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Survivors of Joplin tornado develop rare infection

(AP) -- In the aftermath of the Joplin tornado, some people injured in the storm developed a rare and sometimes fatal fungal infection so aggressive that it turned their tissue black and caused mold to grow ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 11, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Researchers identify workings of L-form bacteria

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have for the first time identified the genetic mechanisms involved in the formation and survival of L-form bacteria. Their findings are described in a study ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Unveiling malaria's 'invisibility cloak'

The discovery by researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of a molecule that is key to malaria's 'invisibility cloak' will help to better understand how the parasite causes disease and escapes from the defenses ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

HIV is evolving to evade human immune responses

(PhysOrg.com) -- HIV is evolving rapidly to escape the human immune system, an international study led by Oxford University has shown. The findings, published in Nature, demonstrate the challenge involved ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Drug-resistant swine flu cases discovered in patients in Seattle

The country's first cases of drug-resistant swine flu were discovered in two leukemia patients in Seattle, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Aug 16, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0