A $24.8 million federal contract will support development a new antiviral drug to treat smallpox. The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’…
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Improving Understanding Of The Spread Of Infectious Prions
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified the motors that move non-infectious prion proteins (PrPC) – found within many mammalian cells – up and down long,…
New, simple device to detect lung pathogens causing pneumonia
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a new sampling device that could prevent thousands of people worldwide from dying of pneumonia each year. Called PneumoniaCheck, the device created at…
GIBH, Saint Louis University form global research partnership to combat malaria
The Center for World Health & Medicine at Saint Louis University and China’s Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health (GIBH) are forming a global research partnership that initially will focus on new…
RyMed’s InVision-Plus IV Connector decreases catheter-related bloodstream infections by 92.6%
Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA exhibited a poster at the recent 11th National Conference on Cancer Nursing Research in Los Angeles, in which their clinical study showed RyMed Technologies’ zero displacement…
New approaches for controlling sleeping sickness caused by trypanosomes
The research could eventually lead to new approaches for controlling sleeping sickness in humans and wasting diseases in livestock which are caused by trypanosomes carried by the bloodsucking tsetse fly. Biologists believe…
Rinsing technique with betadine may reduce infection rate following total knee, hip arthroplasty
A rinsing technique with betadine that costs just a little over one dollar per patient may significantly reduce the infection rate following total knee and hip joint replacement surgery according to a…
Smoking, exercise influence Vitamin E’s effect on pneumonia risk
Depending on the level of smoking and leisure time exercise, vitamin E supplementation may decrease or increase, or may have no effect, on the risk of pneumonia, according to a study published…
Avenir team discovers how Neisseria meningitidis disseminates into bloodstream
Although, in the majority of cases, the localized presence of Neisseria meningitidis in the throat has no consequence, it can sometimes lead to meningitis or septicaemia. The seriousness of these two infections…
Researchers develop new pneumococcal vaccine through novel discovery approach
Pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae) accounts for as much as 11 percent of mortality in young children worldwide. While successful vaccines like Prevnar® exist, they are expensive and only work against specific pneumococcal strains,…
New fully human monoclonal antibodies to battle Chikungunya
The Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), an institute of the Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and VIVALIS (NYSE Euronext: VLS), a French biopharmaceutical company, announced today the discovery of two new…
1 in 5 homeless people with tuberculosis die within a year of diagnosis
One in five homeless people with tuberculosis die within a year of their diagnosis, according to a study led by St. Michael’s Hospital’s Dr. Kamran Khan. And that number remains unchanged over…
Vical announces issuance of U.S. Patent for cytomegalovirus vaccines
Vical Incorporated announced today the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 7,888,112 covering DNA vaccines for cytomegalovirus (CMV) containing specific gene sequences and formulated with Vical’s Vaxfectin® adjuvant. Past development by others of…
Clinical trial finds atorvastatin may inhibit HIV progression, help in infection’s management
A recent multicenter clinical trial of atorvastatin, a type of cholesterol-lowering drug, found that although the drug did not inhibit plasma HIV RNA levels, it did inhibit expression of cellular markers of…
Experts say signs and treatment of bacterial infection often misunderstood
According to the Canadian Foundation for Infectious Diseases, antibiotics are the second most frequently prescribed class of drugs – second only to pain relievers. Yet most people don’t know the difference between…