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Did you know taking oral steroids can put patients with inflammatory disease at risk...
Patients using oral steroids that have the inflammatory disease polymyalgia rheumatica and/or giant cell arteritis have a significantly increased chance of infection.
A study in...
Discover the new compound which kills antibiotic resistant gram-negative bacteria
A new compound developed by experts from University of Sheffield, UK, has killed antibiotic resistant gram-negative bacteria - could this pave the way for...
Aggregating amyloid proteins play a key part in Alzheimer’s disease
Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet have discovered that viruses can bind a special class of proteins called amyloid proteins that play a part in...
Old bedsheets could have traces of bacteroidales – which is linked to pneumonia and...
The bacteria, bacteroidales, which is linked to pneumonia and gonorrhoea has been found in month-old bedsheets according to Time4Sleep research.
Discovered in new research conducted...
Tumour-related immunosuppression and treating persistent bacterial infections
Dr Maija Hollmén at the University of Turku highlights the possibility of re-purposing macrophage stimulating cancer drugs to treat persistent bacterial infections.
Some bacterial infections...
Rotavirus infection influenced by complex interactions in mother’s milk
Researchers have found that the sugars and microbiome in mother's milk influence neonatal rotavirus infection.
An international team of researchers from several institutions, used a...
Can viral infections be prevented?
Researchers have developed low-cost, ‘cell-friendly’ nanogels that can effectively thwart viral infections.
An international research group including scientists from Freie Universität, Germany, has introduced an...
HPV oral infection rates lower than expected, according to England study
A new study reveals that rates of high risk HPV oral infection are lower than expected, and that smokers and individuals who are more...
Infection and inflammation, is there medication for the future?
A new study has mapped how the body’s own peptides act to reduce infection and inflammation by deactivating the toxic substances formed in the...