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Leicester hospital in swine flu outbreak as 14 cancer patients diagnosed with illness
Affected patients at Leicester Royal Infirmary put into isolation and given antiviral drugs as hospital wards they were in are closed
Source: The Telegraph : Swine Flu A H1N1 - February 18, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Leicester illness h1n1 outbreak Leicester Royal Infirmary hospital flu swine flu Source Type: news
Four out of ten Brits may naturally show fewer flu symptoms
ConclusionA study of 1,414 unvaccinated people showed those with T cells targeting virus nucleoprotein still got infected by flu, but had fewer symptoms. The logic is that people with fewer symptoms are less likely to spread the virus through coughs and sneezes, which may slow the spread of both seasonal and pandemic flu strains.This is plausible, but was not directly tested in this study, so we don't know if it's true in real life. The research team suggested vaccines that boost T cell numbers might be worth exploring, as an alternative to those that try to stop virus infection altogether. An added potential benefit of th...
Source: NHS News Feed - June 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart/lungs Medical practice Medication Swine flu Source Type: news
H1N1 (Swine Flu) Treatment Options for People...
What H1N1 (swine flu) treatment options are available for people with cancer? What medications are used for H1N1 (swine flu) treatment, when are they used, and what are the side effects?
Source: About.com Lung Cancer - January 12, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: lungcancer.guide at about.com Tags: health Source Type: news
Leicester hospital in swine flu outbreak as 14 cancer patients diagnosed with illness
Affected patients at Leicester Royal Infirmary put into isolation and given antiviral drugs as hospital wards they were in are closed
Source: Telegraph Health - February 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Leicester illness h1n1 outbreak Leicester Royal Infirmary hospital flu swine flu Source Type: news
NCCN Updates Infection Guidelines to Include Information about H1N1 Virus (Swine flu)
NCCN recently updated the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology™ for the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer-Related Infections to include information about the H1N1 virus, also known as 'swine flu'. The NCCN Guidelines provide specific recommendations on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the major common and opportunistic infections that afflict patients with cancer.
August 5, 2009
FORT WASHINGTON, PA - Infectious diseases are important causes of morbidity and mortality i...
Source: National Comprehensive Cancer Network - August 5, 2009 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Swine flu forces ward closures
Three wards at Leicester's Royal Infirmary close after 14 cancer patients are diagnosed with swine flu.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - February 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Egypt’s Poor Easy Victims of Quack Medicine
Many pharmacies and herbalists in Egypt prescribe their own 'wasfa' (secret drug or herbal elixir). Credit: Cam McGrath/IPSBy Cam McGrathCAIRO, Aug 10 2014 (IPS) Magda Ibrahim first learnt that she had endometrial cancer when she went to a clinic to diagnose recurring bladder pain and an abnormal menstrual discharge. Unable to afford the recommended hospital treatment, the uninsured 53-year-old widow turned to what she hoped would be a quicker and cheaper therapy.
A local Muslim sheikh claimed religious incantations, and a suitable donation to his pocket, could cure the cancer. But when her symptoms persisted, Ibrahim cons...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 10, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Cam McGrath Tags: Civil Society Education Featured Headlines Health Human Rights Middle East & North Africa Poverty & MDGs Projects Women's Health AIDS avian flu blood dialysis clinics Corruption Doctors Egypt Health care Hepatitis C h Source Type: news
From bad to worse: How avian flu must change to trigger a human pandemic
The victims are varied, from thousands of sea lions off the coast of Peru to mink farmed for fur in Spain to grizzly bears in Montana and harbor seals in Maine. For months, the avian influenza virus that has been
decimating birds across the world
has also sickened and killed a menagerie of mammals, raising fears it might evolve to spread more efficiently between these animals, and ultimately between people.
For that nightmare to unfold, however, the virus, a subtype known as H5N1, would have to undergo a major transformation, changing from a pathogen efficient at infecting cells in the guts of birds and spreadin...
Source: ScienceNOW - April 6, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Kids and flu shots: Two common myths
As a pediatrician, I am really passionate about the flu shot. Influenza can be a nasty illness; every year, thousands of people are hospitalized with influenza and its complications, and some of those people die. The flu shot can protect my patients and their families, and I enthusiastically recommend it to all of them.
And yet many of them refuse, despite my best efforts. What is particularly frustrating is that many of them refuse because of misunderstandings about the flu shot. There is all sorts of misinformation out there, but here are the two most common myths:
1. The flu shot can make you sick. This is the one I hea...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - October 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Cold and Flu Vaccines flu vaccine Source Type: news
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Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - October 12, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: deanreddington Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Watch Listen Flu flu season Flu Shot Paula Ebben Vaccine Source Type: news
HealthWatch: Flu Virus Used To Treat Pancreatic Cancer In Mice
BOSTON (CBS) – Pancreatic cancer is a particularly aggressive and deadly cancer, but now researchers in London have developed a modified flu virus to target and kill tumor cells.
The virus has an extra protein that binds pancreatic cancer cells and scientists found the modified virus was able to stop cancer growth in mice.
Pancreatic cancer is often caught late and is incredibly hard to treat because it can quickly become resistant to treatment.
For a variety of cancers, researchers have been turning to mutated viruses to search out and kill cancer cells while trying to avoid drug resistance.
The virus appears to hav...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - January 25, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Dr. Mallika Marshall flu virus pancreatic cancer HealthWatch Source Type: news
Flu, cancer, HIV: after Covid success, what next for mRNA vaccines?
The technology was viewed with scepticism before the pandemic but there is now growing confidence about its useIt is one of the most remarkable success stories of the pandemic: the unproven technology that delivered the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines in record time, helping to turn the tide on Covid-19. The vaccines are based on mRNA, the molecule that instructs our cells to make specific proteins. By injecting synthetic mRNA, our cells are turned into on-demand vaccine factories, pumping out any protein we want our immune system to learn to recognise and destroy.Pre-pandemic, the technology was viewed with scepticis...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 1, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Hannah Devlin Science correspondent Tags: Medical research Vaccines and immunisation Flu Cancer Cancer research Malaria Aids and HIV Health Biology Science Society Source Type: news
What 1989 And The Golden Girls Tell Us About Medicine Today
Today, 1989 may be most associated with Taylor Swift: It is the album that won her a second Grammy for Album of the Year. Not only that, it happens to be the year Swift was born--such a long, long time ago!
People under 35 have no personal memory of 1980s pop culture, which is ironic since Swift's album in part pays homage to it. In the real 1989 (no offense to Swift and the 10 co-producers who made the album), all sorts of revolutions took place: Mr. Gorbachev tore down that pesky wall, for example. America's greatest antagonist, the Soviet Union, collapsed in 1989. Brazil conducted its first democratic presidential ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Role of Multivalency and Antigenic Threshold in Generating Protective Antibody Responses
Mark K. Slifka1* and Ian J. Amanna2
1Division of Neuroscience, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, OR, United States2Najít Technologies, Inc., Beaverton, OR, United States
Vaccines play a vital role in protecting our communities against infectious disease. Unfortunately, some vaccines provide only partial protection or in some cases vaccine-mediated immunity may wane rapidly, resulting in either increased susceptibility to that disease or a requirement for more booster vaccinations in order to maintain immunity above a protective level. The durabilit...
Source: Frontiers in Immunology - April 30, 2019 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research
Scientists divided over device that 'remotely detects hepatitis C'
Developers say C-Fast – developed from bomb detection technology – will revolutionise diagnosis of other diseasesThe device the doctor held in his hand was not a contraption you expect to find in a rural hospital near the banks of the Nile.For a start, it was adapted from a bomb detector used by the Egyptian army. Second, it looked like the antenna for a car radio. Third, and most bizarrely, it could – the doctor claimed – remotely detect the presence of liver disease in patients sitting several feet away, within seconds.The antenna was a prototype for a device called C-Fast. If its Egyptian developers are to be be...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 25, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Patrick Kingsley Tags: Middle East and North Africa World news Egypt guardian.co.uk Medical research Society Features Hepatitis C Science Source Type: news
