Putting mice on a keto diet Our immune responses to infections are influenced by several extrinsic factors, including weather, social interactions, and diet. Here, Goldberg et al. report that feeding mice a high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet confers protection in the context of lethal influenza infection. By characterizing the immune response in the lungs, the authors identified that [...]
Support for people with COPD should be targeted so that individuals develop the skills they need to manage their condition, says Carol Liddle When I read research papers on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and its progression, I find it funny how every study assumes that we’ve had a continuous relationship with our primary and [...]
The Codex Committee on Food Hygiene met in Cleveland, Ohio earlier this month to talk about food allergen management, biological foodborne outbreaks and guidelines to control E. coli. Codex Alimentarius is a collection of standards, guidelines and codes of practice adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which was established by the World Health Organization (WHO) [...]
Why these conditions often occur together and how to treat them when they do. Everyone experiences pain at some point, but in people with depression or anxiety, pain can become particularly intense and hard to treat. People suffering from depression, for example, tend to experience more severe and long-lasting pain than other people. The overlap [...]
Abstract Since 1970, >50% of patients with plague in the United States had interactions with animals that might have led to infection. Among patients with pneumonic plague, nearly all had animal exposure. Improved understanding of the varied ways in which animal contact might increase risk for infection could enhance prevention messages. Plague is a rare, [...]
Abstract Background Carbapenemase-producing K. pneumoniae have become a global priority, not least in low-middle income countries. Here, we report the emergence and clinical impact of a novel KPC-K. pneumoniae ST16 clone in a Clonal Complex (CC)258 endemic setting. Methods Read more… Download The post An Emerging Clone, KPC-2-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST16, Associated with High Mortality Rates in a [...]
Describing real-life scenes from Bengal famine, Brigg’s, a British United Press New Delhi correspondent in a newspaper in September 1942 wrote: “At least 150 people are dying daily in Calcutta from starvation and the accompanying diseases of cholera and dysentery, “In a sunrise walk, I found people dead on the pavement by the dozens. Thousands [...]
Highlights • Detailed monitoring is proposed as a tool to calculate indoor air change per hour • Results highlighted the inefficiency of algorithms based on time-averaged values • The method was applied to IEQ classification on the basis of new standard proposals • By PM measurements, the authors introduce a procedure [...]
A policy to conserve water resources led to the rise of a major source of air pollution, making breathing Delhi’s air as bad as smoking 50 cigarettes. More than 20 million residents in Delhi’s metropolitan area are yet again facing some of the worst pollution on earth, with air quality degrading to dangerous levels this [...]
HOUSTON — Children delivered vaginally and those who were breastfeed had lower odds of developing allergies, according to study results presented at the American College of Asthma, Allergy & Immunology Scientific Meeting. “These results add to our growing knowledge about the impact of delivery mode and infant feeding mode on predisposition to allergic disease,” Stanislaw J. Gabryszewski, [...]
