http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new virus that causes severe breathing distress and kidney failure elicits a distinctive airway cell response to allow it to multiply. Scientists studying the Human Coronavirus-Erasmus Medical Center, which first appeared April 2012 in the Middle East, have discovered helpful details about its stronghold tactics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-tactics-middle-east-virus-lung.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:10:01 EST news286480768 A protein known to be a key player in the development of Parkinson's disease is able to enter and harm cells in the same way that viruses do, according to a Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-parkinson-disease-protein-virus.html Parkinson's & Movement disorders Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:00:01 EST news286122034 The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Veredus Laboratories, a leading supplier of innovative molecular diagnostic tools, announced the launch of VereTrop, the first biochip in the molecular diagnostics market that can identify 13 different major tropical diseases from a single blood sample. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-lab-on-chip-multiple-tropical-infectious-diseases.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 25 Apr 2013 05:32:09 EST news286086677 By screening a library of a billion llama antibodies on live Ebola viruses in the Texas Biomedical Research Institute's highest biocontainment laboratory, scientists in San Antonio have identified a potential weakness in the make-up of these deadly agents that can immediately yield a sensitive test. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-highly-lethal-ebola-virus-diagnostic.html Medical research Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:18:28 EST news284401069 A study led by University of Massachusetts Medical School professor and immunologist Katherine Luzuriaga, MD, and Johns Hopkins Children's Center virologist Deborah Persaud, MD, highlights the long-term benefits of early antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiated in infants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-early-antiretroviral-treatment-viral-reservoirs.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:00:02 EST news281624209 A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins Children's Center, the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the University of Massachusetts Medical School describe the first case of a so-called "functional cure" in an HIV-infected infant. The finding, the investigators say, may help pave the way to eliminating HIV infection in children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-functional-hiv-infant.html HIV & AIDS Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:39:40 EST news281551169 Texas Biomed scientists in San Antonio have found that moderate gum disease in an animal model exposed to an AIDS- like virus had more viral variants causing infection and greater inflammation. Both of these features have potential negative implications in long term disease progression, including other kinds of infections, the researchers say in a new report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-gum-disease-worsen-infection-animal.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:30:01 EST news278852643 Viruses similar to those that cause AIDS in humans were present in non-human primates in Africa at least 5 million years ago and perhaps up to 12 million years ago, according to study published January 24 in the Open Access journal PLOS Pathogens by scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Until now, researchers have hypothesized that such viruses originated much more recently. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-hiv-like-viruses-non-human-primates-longer.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:00:08 EST news278265450 The innate immune system detects invasive pathogens and activates defense mechanisms to eliminate them. Pathogens, however, employ a variety of tricks to block this process. A new study shows how the measles virus thwarts the system, by means of a simple hairpin-like structure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-immune-foiled-hairpin.html Immunology Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:58:00 EST news278056670 (Medical Xpress)—UNSW researchers have discovered a new strain of norovirus that they warn could cause a severe epidemic of acute gastroenteritis in Australia this winter. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-norovirus-strain-severe-gastro-epidemic.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:26:21 EST news277457172 We can blame all sorts of things on the weather. But a stomach bug? It seems unlikely. Yet, scientists say greater quantities of rainfall and bigger storms will lead to more stomach upsets in parts of Europe. "Increases in precipitation in some countries, due to climate change, will affect waterborne outbreaks of disease," Apostolos Vantarakis of the University of Patros, Greece, tells youris.com. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-climate-occurrence-stomach-bugs.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:58:44 EST news276767894 (Medical Xpress)—Influenza, commonly known as the flu, has distinct transmission patterns around the world. In temperate regions, influenza's occurrence peaks during the winter season, while in some tropical regions, the disease's occurrence tends to correspond with the rainy season. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-flu-common-winter-season.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 13 Dec 2012 06:42:45 EST news274603359 A new Ebola virus study resulting from a widespread scientific collaboration has shown promising preliminary results, preventing disease in infected nonhuman primates using monoclonal antibodies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-ebola-antibody-treatment-monkeys-lethal.html Medical research Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:00:13 EST news269520865 German scientists at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Labor Berlin GmbH have succeeded in clarifying the molecular signature of the viruses that lead to an increasing size and number of hantavirus outbreaks in Germany. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-molecular-signature-hantavirus-infection-humans.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 03 Sep 2012 11:00:02 EST news265887125 (Medical Xpress) -- A group of Kansas State University researchers has made valuable findings in the search for cancer's cure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-game-changer-animal-health-ways-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:15:20 EST news264226483 If you were paying attention to the flap over two recent flu experiments involving ferrets, you may have come away with the impression that scientists all but waved a red flag in front of terrorists and said, "Here's a perfect biological weapon - help yourselves." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-viral_1.html Other Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:00:01 EST news246286787 A new University of Maryland-led study finds that 'sex' between the virus responsible for the 2009 flu pandemic (H1N1) and a common type of avian flu virus (H9N2) can produce offspring -- new combined flu viruses -- with the potential for creating a new influenza pandemic. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-well-known-flu-strains-dangerous-progeny.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:36:44 EST news229779385