http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Dialysis patients using catheters to access the blood have the highest risks for death, infections, and cardiovascular events compared with patients using other types of vascular access, according to an analysis appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). The authors note that more research is needed to determine individual patients' risks, however. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-catheters-linked-high-infections-heart.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:00:06 EST news280685249 Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a novel way to engineer key cells of the immune system so they remain resistant to infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-immune-cells-lab-resist-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:00:09 EST news278064133 Exposure to cigarette smoke has long been associated with increased frequency of respiratory infections—which are harder to treat in smoke-exposed people than in those who lack such exposures. Now Ritwij Kulkarni of Columbia University, New York, NY, and colleagues show that cigarette smoke actually boosts virulence of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. Their study appears in the November 2012 issue of the journal Infection and Immunity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-cigarette-boosts-virulence-staphylococcus-aureus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:45:02 EST news271611884 Consider an all-too-common scenario: You're burning up from a high fever after a routine surgical procedure, and an infection specialist is called to help treat your problem. You assume that a short course of antibiotics will quickly turn things around. But the specialist candidly admits: "I'm sorry, I can't treat your infection. You've got a resistant bacteria, a super bug." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-humans-microbes.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:00:02 EST news263569302 Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College and Rockefeller University have identified the first gene to be linked to a rare condition in which babies are born without a spleen, putting those children at risk of dying from infections they cannot defend themselves against. The gene, Nkx2.5, was shown to regulate genesis of the spleen during early development in mice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-gene-linked-spleen-newborns.html Genetics Thu, 03 May 2012 15:00:03 EST news255273938 (AP) -- A Minnesota food company said Friday it is recalling more than a million hard-cooked eggs distributed to 34 states after testing revealed some may be contaminated with listeria. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-minnesota-food-company-recalls-eggs.html Health Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:09:34 EST news247554560