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Women's immune systems remain younger for longer

Women's immune systems age more slowly than men's, suggests research in BioMed Central's open access journal Immunity & Ageing. The slower decline in a woman's immune system may contribute to women living longer than men. ...

Immunology created May 14, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mosquito survey identifies reservoir of disease

A large scale, five year study of mosquitoes from different ecological regions in Kenya, including savannah grassland, semi-arid Acacia thorn bushes, and mangrove swamps, found a reservoir of viruses carried by mosquitoes ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 09, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Anti-depressant link to Clostridium difficile infection

Certain types of anti-depressants have been linked to an increase in the risk of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) finds a study in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine. Awareness of this link should improv ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 06, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The risks of H7N9 infection mapped

A map of avian influenza (H7N9) risk is presented in Biomed Central's open access journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty today. The map is comprised of bird migration patterns, and adding in estimations of poultry production ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 03, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Investigating devastating childhood diseases just got easier

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPScs) from the skin of patients with Dravet syndrome (DS) show Dravet-like functional impairment when they are converted into neurons, finds research in BioMed Central's open ...

Medical research created May 01, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Clarifying the effect of stem cell therapy on cancer

Injection of human stem cells into mice with tumors slowed down tumor growth, finds research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Stem Cell Research & Therapy. Human mesenchymal stem cells (MSC), isolated from b ...

Cancer created Apr 29, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How does pregnancy reduce breast cancer risk?

Being pregnant while young is known to protect a women against breast cancer. But why? Research in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research finds that Wnt/Notch signalling ratio is decreased in the breast ...

Cancer created Apr 29, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microwave imaging can see how well treatment is progressing

Microwave imaging can be used to monitor how well treatment for breast cancer is working, finds new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research. Microwave tomography was ab ...

Cancer created Apr 23, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Even a few cigarettes a day increases risk of rheumatoid arthritis

Number of cigarettes smoked a day and the number of years a person has smoked both increase the risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), finds research in BioMed Central's open access journal Arthritis Research & Therapy. The ri ...

Arthritis & Rheumatism created Apr 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using microbubbles to improve cancer therapy

Microbubbles decrease the time and acoustic power of ultrasound required to heat and destroy an embedded target, finds research in BioMed Central's open access journal Journal of Therapeutic Ultrasound. If these results can be ...

Cancer created Apr 24, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0