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Research: Children with severe form of epilepsy should receive flu vaccine
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Children with a severe form of epilepsy should be vaccinated against the flu due to the high risk of seizures being triggered by an influenza infection, according to a new study.
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Researchers find how HIV evades immunity, drugs
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Researchers at Duke Health have reported that an immune response that likely evolved to help fight infections appears to be the mechanism that drives human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) into a latent state, lurking in cells only to erupt anew.
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Antimicrobial therapy can prevent sepsis in pneumonia patients
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Research sheds light on the initial phase of infectious disease and the potential for prevention of pneumococcal septicaemia.
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Study hints at why older people are more susceptible to the flu
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Though the COVID-19 pandemic provided a brief respite, influenza virus is back in circulation and, as usual, poses a special danger to people over the age of 65. But why are older people more susceptible to the flu? New research from the U-M Medical School, published in Nature Communications
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COVID-19 causes long-term physical, mental health problems in people of al
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
According to a new study published in the journal PLOS Medicine by Martin Roessler of Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany, and colleagues, there is a significant new-onset major complication in children, adolescents, and adults across 13 distinct diagnosis and symptom complexes following
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Common bacterium may spread from intestine: Research
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
According to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators, a typical gut bacterium that can spread through the body and cause a serious infection resists natural immune defences and antibiotics by enhancing its protective outer layer, known as the cell envelope.
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Dengue cases on the rise in Ghaziabad
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The number of dengue patients in Ghaziabad has crossed 600. However, no death in the district has been reported due to dengue, which is spread to people through the bite of infected aedes mosquitoes.
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Deaths from bacterial infections in heart on rise among people who inject
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
According to a recent investigation that was published in the Journal of Internal Medicine, among young US citizens between the ages of 15 and 44, the chance of dying from infectious endocarditis has increased by a factor of two over the past two decades.
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Research: Role of nutrient may reveal dietary target in fight against micr
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A nutrient that is common in the human diet has been found to aid the survival of a cancer-causing bacterium, a new Yale study finds. The findings could reveal an important target for new drugs to tackle numerous infectious diseases in humans.
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China: Guangzhou's Covid-19 outbreak widens, city partially locked down
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Chinese city Guangzhou recorded 2,637 local infections on Tuesday, which is nearly one-third of the new cases across China. Currently, China is witnessing a six-month high in infections nationwide.
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Study finds how innate immune system fights infectious agents
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Researchers revealed how innate immune system fights infectious agents and why the alarm messenger type I interferon is important for this process.
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Dr Subhash Babu, first Indian scientist to be awarded Bailey K. Ashford Me
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Dr. Subash Babu is the Scientific Director of the ICER (International Centre for Excellence in Research)- India Programme and is a leader in helminth infections and tuberculosis research, and he is the first Indian to receive both the Bailey K Ashford medal as well as the FASTMH award.
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