In a small pilot study, scientists in Sweden found that probiotic or so called "friendly" bacteria were just as effective as an antiseptic at reducing pathogenic bacteria that can cause pneumonia in hospital patients on ventilators. The study was led by Dr Bengt Klarin from the University Hospital in Lund, Sweden and is published this week in the BioMed Central open access journal Critical Care. Complete news at...
The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) reports the fourth death from West Nile virus (WNV) for 2008. The deceased was a Panola County resident and was a previously reported case. No new human cases of West Nile virus (WNV) are reported. The state's total number of WNV cases for 2008 remains is 100 with four deaths. Complete news at...
A link between the immune system and the self-cleaning system by which biological cells rid themselves of obsolete or toxic parts may one day yield new weapons in the fight against tuberculosis and other deadly infectious diseases. Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered proteins residing in both systems that point to "cross-talk" between them. Complete news at...
A probiotic bacterium, Lactobacillus plantarum 299, has been used to out-compete the dangerous bacteria that cause respiratory illness in ventilated patients. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care describes how applying a bacterial solution in place of normal antiseptics is effective in preventing the most common cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Complete news at...
Hospitals are supposed to be havens for healing, but the numbers tell a different story. Too many people are infected by illnesses they acquire after they've been admitted, and hospital-related infections continue to be the number-two killer of hospitalized Americans after heart disease. Now, a radical new high-tech software program developed by Tel Aviv University researchers to fight these infections is now catching on faster than the flu. Prof. Complete news at...
Isis Innovation, the University of Oxford's technology transfer company announced today that it has licensed patents based on the work of Oxford's Prof Richard Moxon's research group and research by Canada's National Research Council Institute for Biological Science to Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics. The patents cover a novel vaccine candidate against the meningococcus bacterium -- Neisseria meningitidis -- currently in preclinical stage. Complete news at...
Two Mount Pleasant residents who were bitten by a fox are under the care of a physician after the fox tested positive for rabies, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control reported today. "In the Dunes West area, a fox charged and bit a child," said Sue Ferguson of DHEC's Bureau of Environmental Health. "A man who lives nearby rescued the child and was eventually bitten by the fox before calling animal control. Complete news at...
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