Search For "infection"
Protective bacteria linked to how subsequent infections enter body: Study
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 7 (ANI): A study of fruit flies shows that the benefits of protective bacteria, which safeguard organisms from further disease without causing harm, depend on how subsequent infections enter the body.
Read More
For some UTIs, antibiotic risks outweigh benefits
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 4 (ANI): Antibiotics may not be the appropriate treatment for some urinary tract infections or UTIs, a recent study has suggested.
Read More
A 'game changer' test for antibiotic drug resistance
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 2 (ANI): When a patient is prescribed the wrong antibiotic to treat a bacterial infection, it's not necessarily the physician who is at fault. The current antibiotic assay, standardised in 1961 by the World Health Organization and used worldwide, is potentiall
Read More
Govt. keeping close watch on India's first Zika cases
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 27 (ANI): The Health Ministry has asked the public to remain calm and said that India has a strong surveillance system to detect and contain new Zika virus infection.
Read More
New Zika virus inhibitor identified
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 17 (ANI): A new research has brought a drug to treat Zika infections closer to reality.
Read More
Just 2 doses of HPV vaccine cuts genital warts, cancer risk in girls
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 16 (ANI): A team of researchers has found that only two-doses of a vaccine to children, especially girls, aged nine to 14 can protect them from Genital warts - the most common type of sexually transmitted infection and cancers.
Read More
Respiratory infection can break your heart
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 16 (ANI): The risk of having a heart attack is 17 times higher in the seven days following a respiratory infection, according to a recent study.
Read More
Soon, a cure for Zika infection?
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 7 (ANI): We could soon have a cure for the Zika infection as a team of researchers has identified a potential target.
Read More
Mommies-to-be! Antibiotics doubles risk of miscarriage
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 1 (ANI): Many classes of common antibiotics, used for treating infections, increase the risk of miscarriage in early pregnancy, suggests a study.
Read More
Why are newborns at greater Herpes simplex virus disease risk?
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 30 (ANI): Interferon is a crucial component of the human immune system's response to infection by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), but how important a role it plays in determining the severity of disease and explaining why newborns are so much more suscept
Read More
'Harmful' infection forces Elton John to cancel Las Vegas gigs
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], Apr 25 (ANI): Those who were looking forward to seeing Elton John at his 'Million Dollar Piano' shows in Las Vegas, you may have to wait a little longer as the singer has pulled out of all of his gigs through next two months due to an illness.
Read More
From urine to blood: How antibiotic resistance spreads
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 23 (ANI): People with drug-resistant bacteria in their urine or stool samples are at an increased risk of developing Sepsis, a bloodstream infection that is also resistant to certain antibiotics, according to a recent study.
Read More