Tagged : virus
Acne drug may help prevent HIV breakout
A cheap acne drug that's been used for decades effectively targets infected immune cells in which HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, lies dormant and prevents them from reactivating and replicating, claim Johns Hopkins researchers. The drug, minocycline.......
Published : Saturday 20 Mar 2010 12:16 | Read More
A cheap acne drug that's been used for decades effectively targets infected immune cells in which HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, lies dormant and prevents them from reactivating and replicating, claim Johns Hopkins researchers. The drug, minocycline.......
Published : Saturday 20 Mar 2010 12:16 | Read More
Using home cervical cancer testing kits can increase diagnosis
London, March 12 - ANI: A new research has suggested that more high risk cases of human papilloma virus (HPV) could be detected by offering home testing kits to women who do not come forward for cervical screening. Although cervical screening programm.......
Published : Friday 12 Mar 2010 13:20 | Read More
London, March 12 - ANI: A new research has suggested that more high risk cases of human papilloma virus (HPV) could be detected by offering home testing kits to women who do not come forward for cervical screening. Although cervical screening programm.......
Published : Friday 12 Mar 2010 13:20 | Read More
New herpes vaccine shows promise
London, Mar 12 - ANI: Worried that your partner has genital herpes' Well, a new approach to a herpes vaccine might rid you of any such troubles. The vaccine fights the herpes simplex 2 virus (HSV2), which coexists with the humans it infects for long peri.......
Published : Friday 12 Mar 2010 12:08 | Read More
London, Mar 12 - ANI: Worried that your partner has genital herpes' Well, a new approach to a herpes vaccine might rid you of any such troubles. The vaccine fights the herpes simplex 2 virus (HSV2), which coexists with the humans it infects for long peri.......
Published : Friday 12 Mar 2010 12:08 | Read More
Reovirus may help fight prostate cancer
Washington, March 10 - ANI: Scientists in Canada are working on a new way to treat prostate cancer using a virus. In the study, researchers administered the virus to six volunteer patients and found that it killed off cancer cells while sparing normal ti.......
Published : Wednesday 10 Mar 2010 12:31 | Read More
Washington, March 10 - ANI: Scientists in Canada are working on a new way to treat prostate cancer using a virus. In the study, researchers administered the virus to six volunteer patients and found that it killed off cancer cells while sparing normal ti.......
Published : Wednesday 10 Mar 2010 12:31 | Read More
Role of nutrition on risk of dengue virus infection disapproved
Washington, Mar 7 - ANI: A new study has disapproved reports that well-fed children are more vulnerable to the dengue virus. The study by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators says that mosquitoes spread the virus, which can cause severe fl.......
Published : Sunday 07 Mar 2010 9:50 | Read More
Washington, Mar 7 - ANI: A new study has disapproved reports that well-fed children are more vulnerable to the dengue virus. The study by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators says that mosquitoes spread the virus, which can cause severe fl.......
Published : Sunday 07 Mar 2010 9:50 | Read More
Virus infections may lead to gluten intolerance
London, March 6 - ANI: Virus infections may be a contributing factor in onset of gluten intolerance (coeliac disease), a new research suggests. Gluten intolerance is an autoimmune reaction in the small intestine. The gluten that occurs naturally in grai.......
Published : Saturday 06 Mar 2010 14:56 | Read More
London, March 6 - ANI: Virus infections may be a contributing factor in onset of gluten intolerance (coeliac disease), a new research suggests. Gluten intolerance is an autoimmune reaction in the small intestine. The gluten that occurs naturally in grai.......
Published : Saturday 06 Mar 2010 14:56 | Read More
Experimental vaccine shows promise against chikungunya
London, March 5 - ANI: Scientists have developed an experimental vaccine for chikungunya virus and successfully tested it in monkeys. The vaccine, developed by at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the University of Texas Medical.......
Published : Friday 05 Mar 2010 12:09 | Read More
London, March 5 - ANI: Scientists have developed an experimental vaccine for chikungunya virus and successfully tested it in monkeys. The vaccine, developed by at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the University of Texas Medical.......
Published : Friday 05 Mar 2010 12:09 | Read More
Eye infection linked to increased stroke risk
Washington, Mar 4- ANI: People who have had shingles infection that affects the eyes may have a heightened risk of stroke, according to a new study. Ocular shingles is an infection of the eye and the skin around the eye caused by the same virus that c.......
Published : Thursday 04 Mar 2010 11:58 | Read More
Washington, Mar 4- ANI: People who have had shingles infection that affects the eyes may have a heightened risk of stroke, according to a new study. Ocular shingles is an infection of the eye and the skin around the eye caused by the same virus that c.......
Published : Thursday 04 Mar 2010 11:58 | Read More
Swine flu may become resistant to Tamiflu
If the behaviour of the seasonal form of the H1N1 influenza virus is any indication, scientists say chances are high that most strains of the pandemic swine flu virus will become resistant to Tamiflu, the main drug stockpiled for use against it........
Published : Tuesday 02 Mar 2010 14:33 | Read More
If the behaviour of the seasonal form of the H1N1 influenza virus is any indication, scientists say chances are high that most strains of the pandemic swine flu virus will become resistant to Tamiflu, the main drug stockpiled for use against it........
Published : Tuesday 02 Mar 2010 14:33 | Read More
Pandemic flu virus may become resistant to Tamiflu
Washington, March 2 - ANI: A new study, conducted by researchers at the Ohio State University, analysing the behaviour of seasonal H1N1 suggests that pandemic flu may become resistant to Tamiflu, the main drug used against it. OSU scientists traced the e.......
Published : Tuesday 02 Mar 2010 13:53 | Read More
Washington, March 2 - ANI: A new study, conducted by researchers at the Ohio State University, analysing the behaviour of seasonal H1N1 suggests that pandemic flu may become resistant to Tamiflu, the main drug used against it. OSU scientists traced the e.......
Published : Tuesday 02 Mar 2010 13:53 | Read More
HIV drug given to protect foetus should be avoided after childbirth for 1yr
Washington, Feb 26 - ANI: Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have suggested that women given the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention drug nevirapine to protect their foetus should not use an HIV-drug regimen that contai.......
Published : Friday 26 Feb 2010 12:49 | Read More
Washington, Feb 26 - ANI: Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have suggested that women given the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention drug nevirapine to protect their foetus should not use an HIV-drug regimen that contai.......
Published : Friday 26 Feb 2010 12:49 | Read More
Human, bird flu virus interaction can create more virulent strains
Genetic interactions between avian flu virus and human seasonal flu viruses can potentially create hybrid strains, combining the virulence of bird flu with the pandemic ability of swine flu, according to a new study........
Published : Tuesday 23 Feb 2010 13:55 | Read More
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Genetic interactions between avian flu virus and human seasonal flu viruses can potentially create hybrid strains, combining the virulence of bird flu with the pandemic ability of swine flu, according to a new study........
Published : Tuesday 23 Feb 2010 13:55 | Read More