Today, the World Health Organization released its 2019 Global Tuberculosis Report. The bad news is that, despite a decline in number of deaths, TB continues to reign as the world’s top infectious killer. According to the report, TB still kills 4000 people each day, 120000 people each month, and 1.5 million people each year. TB is [...]
Abstract HIV viral reservoirs are established very early during infection. Resident memory T cells (TRM) are present in tissues such as the lower female genital tract, but the contribution of this subset of cells to the pathogenesis and persistence of HIV remains unclear. Here, we show that cervical CD4+TRM display a unique repertoire of clusters of [...]
The invention of interactive map applications has revolutionized wayfinding, providing an unprecedented level of information far beyond what printed road maps can offer. Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles are giving us a similar look into the anatomy of the human lung, and their findings could help babies breathe easier. Infants born prematurely often suffer [...]
Researchers studying genetic data from 200,000 people have found that the heritability of post-traumatic stress disorder is similar to that of depression and other forms of mental illness. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the most common psychiatric disorders, affecting some eight million adults at some point in their lifetime in the United States [...]
Young adults with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be at increased risk for mini-stroke (transient ischemic attack,TIA) or a major stroke by middle age, based on new research published in the journal Stroke. The study found that having PTSD seemed to elevate the risk as much as other more well-known risk factors, such as smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, [...]
Newswise — New research shows that the more a baby weighs at birth relative to its gestational age the higher the risk they will suffer from childhood food allergy or eczema, although not hay fever. Dr Kathy Gatford from the University of Adelaide’s Robinson Research Institute led a team of scientists that carried out a [...]
FLETCHER – The Mountain State Fair Legionnaires’ outbreak has claimed a third life, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services confirmed on Oct. 14. The first Legionnaires’ patient to die was a Buncombe County resident, BCDHHS confirmed Sept. 24, but NCDHHS said they will not be providing further information on the three people who [...]
An updated clinical guideline on pneumonia emphasizes antimicrobial stewardship with recommendations for increased microscopic studies of respiratory tract specimens in certain patients and revised recommendations for empiric treatment strategies. The American Thoracic Society (ATS)/Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) ad hoc committee on community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in adults published the guideline online October 1 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical [...]
Children with neurologic impairment had lower rates of recurrent severe pneumonia if they practiced dental care as a preventive measure, according to the results of a study published in the journal Pediatrics. The rate of pneumonia hospitalization for children enrolled in California Children’s Services was evaluated and a comparison of rates among expert-recommended prevention strategies was [...]
Introduction Seasonal cyclicity is a ubiquitous feature of acute infectious diseases [1] and may be a ubiquitous feature of human infectious diseases in general, as illustrated in Tables 1–4. Each acute infectious disease has its own seasonal window of occurrence, which, importantly, may vary among geographic locations and differ from other diseases within the same location. [...]
