When we think of how we fight disease, the image of cells in our immune system fending off microbial invaders often comes to mind. Another strategy our bodies can employ is to cut off the enemy's supply lines and effectively ...
Feb 6, 2015
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Haemoplasmas are a group of blood borne bacteria found in a wide range of mammals, including domestic and wild cats, and can cause severe anaemia. The findings of a new study have significantly advanced researchers' knowledge ...
Jan 20, 2015
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Researchers from Tanzania and South Africa, who are part of the Cochrane Infectious Disease Group, hosted at LSTM, have conducted an independent review to assess the effect of intermittent preventive antimalarial treatment ...
Jan 15, 2015
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Most toddlers are at risk of not getting enough iron in their diets, a QUT nutritionist has warned.
Aug 8, 2014
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Immediate intervention is needed to prevent detrimental outcomes from iron deficiency anaemia among postpartum mothers in Nepal, new research has found.
Apr 28, 2014
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Young children living in remote Indigenous communities have long been known to suffer from iron deficiency and anaemia at many times the rates found among other Australian children. Now a new report shows rates of anaemia ...
Sep 4, 2013
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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic condition affecting 1 in 250 people in Europe. Current treatment is ineffective for many. However, a team of European scientists has increased understanding of the causes of IBD, ...
Aug 12, 2013
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A healthy adult must generate as many as one hundred billion new red blood cells each day, to maintain the numbers circulating in his blood. A team of EPFL researchers has identified a key step in the process by which red ...
Mar 14, 2013
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Although they have an important impact on children's health and education, school-based deworming programmes have a limited impact on the level of infection in the wider community, according to a mathematical modeling study ...
Feb 28, 2013
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Phenylbutazone, a painkiller for horses, can cause blood disorders in humans but at doses much higher than any one person is likely to ingest from eating horsemeat.
Feb 14, 2013
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