Most patients admitted to hospital with acute viral respiratory infections are given antibiotics. Now new research to be presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in ...
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The immune system fights the coronavirus with antibodies and T cells. Scientists have a fairly good idea of how the virus avoids antibodies, including those promoted by vaccination, which is how variants of concern such as ...
Feb 14, 2023
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Viral suppression of HIV by antiretroviral medications helps slow transmission of the disease and keep individuals living with it healthy, at times making viral loads so low they are undetectable even on blood tests. Sixty-five ...
Feb 9, 2023
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When people living with HIV take antiviral therapy (ART), their viral loads are driven so low that a standard blood test cannot detect the virus. However, once ART is stopped, detectable HIV re-emerges with new cells getting ...
Jan 31, 2023
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A new study by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC—James) suggests a way to re-energize critical killer ...
Jan 24, 2023
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By reprogramming tumor cells to become the body's defenders, Filipe Pereira and his colleagues hope to improve current cancer treatments.
Dec 22, 2022
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Though antiretroviral therapy has made HIV a manageable disease, people living with HIV often suffer from chronic inflammation. This can put them at an increased risk of developing comorbidities such as cardiovascular disease ...
Nov 22, 2022
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An immune response that likely evolved to help fight infections appears to be the mechanism that drives human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) into a latent state, lurking in cells only to erupt anew, researchers at Duke Health ...
Nov 14, 2022
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Millions have died due to COVID-19 infection, and millions more continue experiencing the chronic condition, Long COVID, which makes discovering practical, accessible, and powerful SARS-CoV-2 preventatives and COVID-19 treatments ...
Nov 11, 2022
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Researchers have been experimenting with different ways to deliver genes to the brain to treat central nervous system diseases and tumors. One of the obstacles, however, is the ability to penetrate the blood-brain barrier ...
Oct 18, 2022
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