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Category: Infection/Disease
1918 Flu Pandemic
Coronovirus – Questions Answered
Arginine Depletion as a Starting Point for Potential Treatments
A group from the MedUni Vienna has identified a role for the endogenous amino acid arginine in the growth of osteoclasts in rheumatoid arthritis. Restricting the amount of available arginine significantly restricts excessive formation of these harmful, disease promoting cells. These findings, which were recently published in the leading journal Nature Communications, could form the […]
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Vaccination Strategy Urgently Needed to Help Boost Immunity
The Government should publish its long-awaited vaccination strategy as soon as possible to help reverse a dramatic decline in take-up and protect young and vulnerable people from deadly infections, the Local Government Association says today. While uptake for most childhood immunisations is at more than 90 per cent, there has been a significant decline in […]
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Cancers Engaged in Evolutionary Arms Race with Immune System
‘- Aggressive stomach and gullet cancers evolve escape routes under selective pressure from immune system – Findings underline importance of cancer evolution, and could help optimise immunotherapy Aggressive, highly mutated cancers evolve escape routes in response to immune attacks in an ‘evolutionary arms race’ between cancer and the immune system, a new study reports. Gullet […]
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Infants are Uniquely Vulnerable to Aluminium in Vaccines
Aluminium is Toxic In 1984, as an undergraduate at the University of Stirling, Scotland and while carrying out my first piece of independent research, I watched for the first time a fish, a salmon parr, die from acute aluminium toxicity. The whole process took less than forty-eight hours. Within six hours, the fish showed signs […]
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Gum Disease Doubles Stroke Risk
A new study has found that people with gum disease are around twice as likely to have a stroke. Researchers have discovered when the gums bleed and become inflamed, it leads to changes in how blood and oxygen flows to the brain. Gum disease remains one of the most common health conditions across the United […]
Antibiotic Resistance – The Battle Gets Harder
The World Bank estimates that between 1.1% and 3.8% of global GDP could be lost due to antibiotic resistance, (known as antimicrobial resistance /AMR), if left unchecked – roughly the same as the global economic impact of climate change. At the Extreme Medicine Conference, 23-25 November, Edinburgh, leaders in this field, Drs. Aula Abbara, consultant […]
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Digital Sepsis Monitoring System Helps Save Lives and Improves Care
The introduction of a digital alert system to monitor patients with sepsis has led to a reduction in deaths and hospital stays. Sepsis, also known as blood poisoning, is life threatening and accounts for an estimated 46,000 deaths in the UK each year. If diagnosed early it can be treated effectively with antibiotics but the […]
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