According to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Salmonella causes about 1.2 million illnesses, 23,000 hospitalizations and 450 deaths in the United States alone every year. Salmonella infections are caused via contaminated foods, which leads to fever, diarrhea and abdominal cramps.
The 2018 Recommendations of the International Antiviral Society-USA (IAS-USA) suggests that early treatment in adult HIV patients brings about rapid and more definite decrease in viral load and better care of the patient.
In a major breakthrough in cancer research, a team of scientists from the University of Toronto, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, The Netherlands Cancer Institute and the University of Bern have discovered how cells repair damaged strands of DNA. They revealed a brand new protein complex in cells that protect broken DNA ends and causes its repair, in their study published in Nature on Wednesday.
Copper is amongst the essential trace elements required for adequate functioning and maintaining good health. Since ancient times, water has often been stored in copper vessels. The idea behind this practice was to allow the copper ions to mix with the stored water which would then enter into the body upon consumption of this water.
A scientists team from the University of Sheffield have discovered that the human pathogen named Staphylococcus aureus especially MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus) uses non-threatening bacteria in the skin to initiate infection.
Nowadays fish pedicures have become a popular form of pedicure where fish eat dead skin off a person’s feat. But a woman in her 20’s from New York approached a doctor when her toenails started becoming abnormal. She told the doctor that she had been having the issue for around 6 months, from the moment she had the fish pedicure. There was no pain but a few breaks in her toenails, due to which the bottom portion of her nails got separated from the upper portion.
Current HIV drugs usually act on enzymes needed by the virus throughout its survival. But no drug targets the outermost layer of the virus named the capsid, which protects the genetic material delivered into the host.
Hepatitis is defined as liver inflammation usually caused by the hepatitis virus. There are of 5 types of hepatitis: A, B, C, D and E. At times, our own immune system will attack the liver, which is termed as autoimmune hepatitis disease. Common symptoms include fever, jaundice, fatigue, abdominal pain, dark urine, pale stool, loss of appetite and weight loss.
Fatigue is a common complaint of chronic Hepatitis C sufferers. Fatigue is triggered by many factors, but insufficient sleep is considered to be the major cause and too many sleepless nights worsen the condition of Hepatitis C sufferers.
Gilead’s Yescarta and Novartis’ Kymriah garnered a lot of interest among T-cell therapies after producing high response rates in patients with lymphoma and leukemia. However, the same has not been true for this technology in cases of solid tumors. In this novel procedure, patients’ immune-boosting T cells are extracted and engineered to target and destroy cancer cells.
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