Herpes - a contagious disease, caused by the simple herpes virus simple.
This is the most common viral infection. About 90% of people on earth are infected herpes, 30 million adult population of the USA are suffering from recurrent disease. Only in 5% infected manifested symptoms of the disease, at the rest it runs without clinical manifestations.
Once settled in the body, herpes virus no longer leaves him, Read the rest of this entry »
Just completed study has shown a link between heart attack at night and apnea syndrome in a dream.
In this condition in humans, there is spontaneous stop breathing during sleep every few minutes. The link can not be installed until the end, however, it logically follows from the results of the study, said the author of the study, Dr. Virend Somers, cardiologist from Meyo Clinics.
Most heart attacks occur in the period between 6 a.m. and noon, said Somers Read the rest of this entry »
As it was discovered, the drug for treatment smallpox may also protect the body from adenovirus.
Adenovirus is a cause of upper respiratory tract infection and one of the many viruses that cause ordinary colds. Today, there is no special drug directed against adenovirus.
In part, this is because so far not been able to create an appropriate model of disease Read the rest of this entry »
We have lots of viruses molecular devices to infiltrate the host cell. Recently, researchers have discovered a new way by which viruses hiding from the immune system cells recognition: virus Vaccinia “masked” by apoptotic cells, stimulates phagocytosis (absorption cell particles from the external environment) and comprising fagosom penetrate inside cells.
Vaccinia virus is bigger in size, then other viruses Read the rest of this entry »
Diseases transmitted in intimate proximity, were described by Hippocrates. Since then, the list of these ills noticeably grown, they have learned how to treat and began to talk about them openly. But …
But, strangely, sexually transmitted diseases continue to competitive multitude of rumors and legends.
The first legend: You can get syphilis or gonorrhea in the home, such as taking a bath after Read the rest of this entry »
The international team of scientists has documented dramatic spread of deadly diseases in the world. Over the past 50 years, fatal disease on Earth has been four times increased. Approximately 60% of viruses formatted from animals to people.
The study by experts at the University of Colombia and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN, USA) reviewed 335 diseases that have emerged Read the rest of this entry »
Dutch specialists have found that such a dangerous disease, as atypical pneumonia (SARS), can be easily prevented through… conventional interferon used for the prevention of influenza and other respiratory infections.
The experiments, conducted on monkeys in the Medical Center Erasmus (Rotterdam), showed, that the introduction of so-called interferon-alpha-long-acting, at 80-90 per cent reduces the severity of lung tissue damage caused by Read the rest of this entry »
The pain sense in the wrist, itching or numbness in the hands, which are reinforced by the evening, the inability to hold goods in the hands or o print long on the keyboard - all this can be a symptoms of carpal tunnel disease.
In the United States, for example, suffer more than two million people, from this disease Read the rest of this entry »
The study showed that newly approved drugs for angina can also serve as a powerful new tool to combat a rare hereditary symptom, which endangers young people and teenagers unpredictable death from cardiac arrest.
The analysis results were presented at the 57 - Annual Scientific Congress of the American College of Cardiology Read the rest of this entry »
Black Americans are more likely than other racial groups to lose their vision due to idiopathic intracranial hypertension, or increased pressure in the brain, according to a new study.
Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta reviewed the medical records of all 450 intracranial hypertension patients treated at Emory Read the rest of this entry »
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