http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control reports of a phenomenon that could help control the spread of hospital-acquired infections: a surface-coating of metalloacids kills off microbial strains, even in multidrug-resistant microorganisms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-metals-microbes-biocidal-effect-metalloacid-coated.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:00:03 EST news272047476 A new research report in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology suggests that a woman's ovarian cycle plays an important role in her susceptibility to infection. Specifically, researchers from Spain and Austria found that women are most susceptible to infection, such as Candida albicans or other sexually transmitted diseases, during ovulation than at any other time during the reproductive cycle. This natural "dip" in immunity may be to allow spermatozoa to survive the threat of an immune response so it may fertilize an egg successfully. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-females-susceptible-infection-ovulation.html Health Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:29:46 EST news244812574