Immunology
Ketogenic diet helps tame flu virus
A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet like the Keto regimen has its fans, but influenza apparently isn't one of them.
Nov 15, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Do I have the flu or not?
A person has all the signs of flu: fever, chills, cough, headache and fatigue. But just because the signs are there, it's not a foregone conclusion that flu is the cause as there are other viruses and illnesses with shared ...
Nov 7, 2019
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Medical research
Flu antibody protects against numerous and wide-ranging strains
Researchers have found an antibody that protects mice against a wide range of lethal influenza viruses, according to a study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ...
Oct 24, 2019
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Influenza human challenge study begins at NIH-sponsored clinical trial units
A clinical trial in which healthy adults will be deliberately infected with influenza virus under carefully controlled conditions is recruiting volunteers at four Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEUs) supported by ...
Oct 24, 2019
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Researchers identify new antiviral drug effectively treats influenza infection
A new antiviral drug that induces mutations in the genetic material of influenza virus is highly effective in treating influenza infection in animals and human airway tissue and could be a groundbreaking advance in influenza ...
Oct 23, 2019
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Researchers bring us one step closer to universal influenza vaccine
The scourge of the influenza virus devastates health and claims many lives worldwide each year. It is especially daunting because vaccines are only protective when they are well matched to the strains circulating in the population. ...
Oct 17, 2019
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CDC: Seasonal influenza viruses circulating in southern hemisphere
(HealthDay)—Seasonal influenza viruses are circulating widely in the Southern Hemisphere, but influenza activity is currently low in the United States, according to research published in the Oct. 11 issue of the U.S. Centers ...
Oct 11, 2019
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Immunology
Environmental toxins impair immune system over multiple generations
New research shows that maternal exposure to a common and ubiquitous form of industrial pollution can harm the immune system of offspring and that this injury is passed along to subsequent generations, weakening the body's ...
Oct 2, 2019
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Medications
How microbes hack into cells and why cancer drugs might block them
No matter the pathogen—virus, bacterium or fungus—many "pick a specific type of lock" on the surface of cells, which allows the microbe to break and enter into the inner sanctum of the host's genome.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
From parade to pandemic: Museum looks at 1918's deadly flu
On Sept. 28, 1918, in the waning days of World War I, over 200,000 people gathered along Broad Street in Philadelphia for a parade meant to raise funds for the war effort. Among the patriotic throngs cheering for troops and ...
Sep 27, 2019
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