Topic: Clinical Immunology
For centuries physicians believed that diseases were caused by an imbalance in the "four humours" -- blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile.These notions were swept away in the 19th century by the advent of modern medicine.Bit by bit it laid bare ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A cell treatment to prevent new organs being rejected without the need for lifelong courses of immune drugs is showing promise in mice and may one day make human transplants easier, scientists said.The process, if developed for humans, would ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - TV, radio and print advertisements that warn parents about the signs of rare but dangerous immune diseases in children may be misdirected, researchers say.Their analysis, published today in Pediatrics, found that only a few of the ten ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found a protein that acts as a "master switch" to determine whether certain white blood cells will boost or dampen inflammation, a finding that may help the search for new drugs for rheumatoid arthritis.Many patients with rheumatoid ...
Now that winter is here (at least in the northern hemisphere), it is more important than ever to keep our immune system in top condition. Fruit and vegetables - we all know how important these are as part of our diet, largely ...
Could your fear of germs be making you sick? A new study from the University of Michigan School of Public Health suggests that people who frequently use antibacterial products with triclosan are more likely to suffer from allergies and hay fever. The ...
Problems that plague millions of Americans, and the targets of intense research and treatment by doctors and drug companies. "Many people suffer for years, not realizing that the underlying causes are often something completely unexpected and surprisingly easy to treat," adds Patricia ...
IT IS not every week that a major tenet of biology is overturned. The discovery is even prompting a rethink of the idea that the immune system works by distinguishing "self" from "nonself". The idea was that the immune system used this ...
Need to conduct multiple experiments on a single cell over time? So Christopher Love, as a chemist-turned-immunologist, has developed a technique to zero in on an individual cell. For decades, biologists who wanted to know what proteins a single cell was producing ...
The eel-like sea lamprey may not have as primitive an immune system as many scientists thought. In this week's issue of Nature, researchers report that the lamprey has two distinct classes of immune cells, with similar properties to the T and B ...
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