http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)—Cytomegalovirus (CMV)-associated posterior uveitis or panuveitis can develop in patients without HIV infection, most of whom have evidence of compromised immune function, according to a study published online March 14 in JAMA Ophthalmology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-cmv-linked-eye-infections-idd-patients.html Ophthalmology Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:50:01 EST news282833764 For the first time, an international team of researchers has found that a combination of a particular virus in the mother and a specific gene variant in the child increases the risk of the child developing schizophrenia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-virus-genes-involved-causation-schizophrenia.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:07:13 EST news281963223 (Medical Xpress)—The first experimental proof that long-term infection with cytomegalovirus, or CMV, may impair the aging immune system's response to unrelated viruses – such as West Nile or the flu – has been published in the journal PLoS Pathogens. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-presence-common-infectioncytomegalovirushelps-virus-susceptibility.html Immunology Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:17:26 EST news266145430 Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the viruses that most infected people carry without ill effects. Once infected you are infected for life and, although it normally is dormant, it can become active again at any point in time. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Immunity and Ageing shows that CMV infection is a significant risk factor for the type 2 diabetes in the elderly. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-virus-diabetic-life.html Immunology Mon, 27 Aug 2012 20:00:01 EST news265307310 The cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a member of the herpesvirus family. Although most people carry CMV for life, it hardly ever makes them sick. Researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and from the USA have now unveiled long term consequences of the on-going presence of CMV: Later in life, more and more cells of the immune system concentrate on CMV, and as a result, the response against other viruses is weakened. These research results help to explain why the elderly are often more prone to infectious diseases than young people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-long-term-consequences-chronic-virus-infection.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:00:07 EST news264345769 A team of researchers, including a scientist from the Viral Immunology Center at Georgia State University, have found that a type of herpesvirus infection of the eye is associated with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a disease that causes blindness in the elderly. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-viral-infection-eye-disease-elderly.html Ophthalmology Mon, 21 May 2012 18:12:18 EST news256842714 Swabbing a newborn's mouth for saliva can be used to quickly and effectively screen for cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, a leading cause of hearing loss in children, says research in the June 2 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-saliva-effective-screening-cmv-infection.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:43:22 EST news226168968