http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have made novel discoveries concerning the current vaccine against whooping cough that may lead to the development of an improved future vaccine. The findings could help reduce the incidence of the disease which is increasing in developed countries. The research led by Professor of Experimental Immunology, Kingston Mills has just been published in the leading international journal PloS Pathogens. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-discovery-whooping-vaccine.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 13 May 2013 08:10:01 EST news287649713 Seasonal epidemics of influenza result in nearly 36,000 deaths annually in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Current vaccines against the influenza virus elicit an antibody response specific for proteins on the outside of the virus, specifically the hemagglutinin (HA) protein. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-two-pronged-immune-cell-approach-universal.html Medical research Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:00:05 EST news282498498 Monash Institute of Medical Research scientists have found a protein in the female reproductive tract that protects against sexually transmitted diseases (STIs) such as chlamydia and herpes simplex virus (HSV). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-protein-link-sexually-transmitted-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:00:08 EST news281280212 (Medical Xpress)—Apichai Tuanyok dedicated several years to working on a bacterial pathogen in Canada, but his breakthrough occurred in Flagstaff with an unexpected finding on a routine lab report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-glanders-vaccine.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:50:03 EST news269853788 The deadliest form of malaria is caused the protozoan Plasmodium falciparum. During its life-cycle in human blood, the parasite P. falciparum expresses unique proteins on the surface on infected blood cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-human-immunity-malaria.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:00:02 EST news263039631 (Medical Xpress) -- Infections from certain parasites can compromise the immune system, leaving it less able to fight other diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-parasite-infection-tail.html Immunology Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:20:41 EST news260094032 Clinician researchers in China have developed a vaccine that acts simultaneously against HIV-1 and M. tuberculosis (Mtb). An estimated 14 million people worldwide are coinfected with the two pathogens. The research is published in the May 2012 issue of Clinical and Vaccine Immunology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-experimental-vaccine-elicits-robust-response.html Immunology Tue, 22 May 2012 08:24:28 EST news256893777 Very recently, researchers discovered an important population of immune cells called memory T cells living in parts of the body that are in contact with the environment (e.g., skin, lung, GI tract). How these "resident" memory T cells are generated was unknown, and their importance with regard to how our immune system remembers infection and how it prevents against re-infection is being studied intensively. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-virus-infection-memory-cells-skin.html Immunology Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:00:11 EST news249733749