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29th September 2009
The prostate is a gland in males below the bladder and wrapped around the urethra. The healthy human prostate is slightly larger than a walnut, and although it is called a gland, being composed of two lobes completely surrounded by a layer of outer tissue... Read >
Author: Dr. Mital John17th September 2009
The news media and our federal government are trumpeting the early release of data from H1N1 swine flu vaccine trials. The headlines would have you believe that the new vaccine is a major success. In some ways it is and in other ways it isn’t.
Ear... Read >
Author: Byron J. Richards03rd September 2009
Prescription drug abuse became a major problem today. According to DEA data, the number of Methadone drug items seized by law enforcement increased from 2,865 in 2001 to 10,361 in 2007, suggesting that Methadone contributed to rise in overdose deaths. In ... Read >
Author: Stephen Jhonson17th August 2009
Picture a box filled with puzzle pieces. As you empty the contents onto the floor, you have a certain goal in mind – to find the puzzle pieces that would fit together in order to produce something that is beautiful and whole. Each piece is different fro... Read >
Author: Brent15th August 2009
Inside the skeletal muscles rests some powerful elements, which include ligaments and tendons. The ligaments alone are muscular bands of stringy-like threads that produce collagen threads of muscle fiber. The fibers and threads of ligaments connect to the... Read >
Author: Richie Lindsay03rd August 2009
Transfer Factor
Genetic and environmental factors both clearly play a role in narcolepsy-cataplexy. Until now, the best evidence for autoimmunity as a cause of the disorder was the discovery that nearly everyone with the disorder has unique variants ... Read >
Author: j cordova 02nd August 2009
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is a slow-growing, life-threatening cancer of the immune system that develops when white blood cells grow uncontrollably in the lymph nodes. Each year in the U.S. alone, 55,000 new cases are diagnosed. Fortunately, novel, highly per... Read >
Author: wbdoyle01st August 2009
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Author: j cordova 11th July 2009
Dogs ought to be on heartworm prevention wherever mosquitoes are display. A variety of useful types of heartworm prevention are available for your dog. Dogs must be tested each year for heartworms no matter what if they have been given heartworm preventat... Read >
Author: Mathew D.06th May 2009
ELISA: The Things That You Need to Know
Many are still confused of what really the medical terminology ELISA means and how it is being used in disease detection such as HIV or West Nile Virus. ELISA or Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay is a bi... Read >
Author: robertbanks08th April 2009
The immunofluorescent assay (IFA) HIV test is performed in order to examine a tissue sample for the presence of HIV-1 virus. An IFA HIV test consists of a drawing blood or plasma samples from the patient and requesting him or her to undergo laboratory an... Read >
Author: jmkl25th March 2009
It has been shown that HIV can easily and rapidly adapt to evade immune system responses. It has now been shown that these mutations can be spread to the wider population, according to a study published in the journal Nature. Although it has been known fo... Read >
Author: JHachko07th January 2009
Leptospirosis is a contagious disease that affects animals as well as humans. Caused by a group of organisms called lepterospira interrogans (within such species there are different strains), the disease can lead to chronic liver and kidney disease and ev... Read >
Author: John Samson17th December 2008
Dogs found to be antigen-positive post-adulticide may have the treatment repeated, but only following an extensive case review. One option is to resume arsenical use with ivermectin or other preventive, a combination expected to eventually kill all surviv... Read >
Author: John Samson16th September 2008
Antibodies are an unmatched tool used in biomedical research since they attach with high similarity and specificity to an array of molecules - the majority notably peptides and proteins. They are used in proceedings where categorization, quantification, l... Read >
Author: pacificimmunology04th September 2008
The experience eyes of the doctor commonly diagnosed with genital herpes. Most doctors recognize the disease with clinical examination. To confirm the presence of different tests are carried out. Several times, test reports indicate the absence of herpes.... Read >
Author: Jade Simpson14th May 2008
Hypersensitivity refers to undesirable (damaging, discomfort-producing and sometimes fatal) reactions produced by the normal immune system. Hypersensitivity is a state of altered reactivity in which the body reacts with an exaggerated immune response to a... Read >
Author: Sander Bel14th May 2008
Hypersensitivity refers to undesirable (damaging, discomfort-producing and sometimes fatal) reactions produced by the normal immune system. Hypersensitivity is a state of altered reactivity in which the body reacts with an exaggerated immune response to a... Read >
Author: Sander Bel06th April 2008
Hypersensitivity refers to undesirable (damaging, discomfort-producing and sometimes fatal) reactions produced by the normal immune system. Hypersensitivity is a state of altered reactivity in which the body reacts with an exaggerated immune response to a... Read >
Author: Rachel Broune02nd April 2008
Blood typing is a method of determining a person's blood type by serological methods. These blood types depend on whether or not there are certain antigens on the red blood cells & if there are antibodies to these substances. By careful planning a couple ... Read >
Author: Brenda Stokes20th February 2008
Quercetin is one of the more powerful of the body�s antioxidants, and it can also be used to reduce the rate of histamine release by the body normally initiated by contact with an allergenic substance (for which your immune system has designed an antige... Read >
Author: Robert Palmer30th January 2008
The classical pathway for activation of NF-kB, a key transcriptional regulator of the immune system, is controlled by the IKK complex. Activated IKK phosphorylates IkB which is ubiquitinated and rapidly degraded, allowing NF-kB to translocate from the cy... Read >
Author: Stephen Jones07th November 2007
Antibodies are an unparalleled tool for use in biomedical research because they bind with high affinity and specificity to a variety of molecules - most notably proteins and peptides. They are used in procedures where characterization, quantification, lo... Read >
Author: pacificimmunology10th August 2007
Many people suffer from chronic pain from stomach upsets, muscle cramps or joint pains, or other seemingly unshakable complaints that seem to have no cause. Surprisingly often, eliminating gluten from the diet results in a marked improvement - even the co... Read >
Author: Frann Leach27th April 2007
Holy basil is a common name of a world-renowned herb Tulasi. It is a secret herb that has a mythological back ground. Tulasi is supposed to be a beloved of Lord Krishna, a reincarnation of Lord Vishnu, the operator of this world. Hence the herb got its na... Read >
Author: Dr John Anne18th April 2007
Multiple sclerosis is a rather unknown disease, because it does not affect many people. However, multiple sclerosis is a very hard medical condition. The reason is because when you suffer from multiple sclerosis, the patches of myelin or the fibres of you... Read >
Author: groshan fabiola28th February 2007
Just like humans a common health problem in cats is allergy. It's strange that we always worry about humans being allergic to cats, but so seldom hear about what cats are allergic to!
In this way, cats aren't that much different from humans. Some for... Read >
Author: Donovan Baldwin01st February 2007
Lymphoma is a cancer, a pathological modification of the cells known as lymphocytes. They are members of the family of the white blood cells. It isn't very easy for the doctors to put the diagnosis and to make a classification of lymphomas. this aspect is... Read >
Author: groshan fabiola24th January 2007
Until three or four years ago, there weren't a lot of treatment choices for lymphoma patients who relapsed or had their cancer transform into a more aggressive form of the disease. Fortunately, these patients have many more options today due to targeted t... Read >
Author: jhon Scatelli15th December 2006
Immunity is the power to resist against diseases and different foreign bodies like antigens. It is the system to fight with foreign antigen as well as the ability to develop self supporting mechanism.
Physical illness allergies and different viral and ... Read >
Author: Ketty02nd October 2006
What are Antibodies?
Antibodies, also called immunoglobulins are large y-shaped proteins which function to identify and help remove foreign antigens such as viruses and bacteria.
Antibodies are created by plasma cells which are derived from the B-ce... Read >
Author: Joe Mann11th May 2006
AIDS: is now a commonly-used term for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and also for HIV/AIDS; WHO uses the term to ¡°denote the entire health problem associate with HIV infection.¡±
American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR): was co-founded in 198... Read >
Author: Grata Young27th April 2006
No one likes being sick. We all want to feel good and enjoy life. With the ever increasing threat of newer and deadlier diseases everyday, it is more important now than ever before to keep your body healthy and strong so that you can fight these terrible ... Read >
Author: nutrovitasub nutrovitasub08th April 2006
Ayurveda is the essence of old Hindu Medicare techniques, which are based on the curing the diseases from the roots. In Ayurveda, whole body is supposed as a mutually responding system. A single part not responding well may cause a disturbance in all body... Read >
Author: Tarun Sachdeva28th March 2006
People differ from each other not only with eye and skin color, or height, but also with a blood group, and also with its Rhesus factor. For the time being, it doesn't matter which blood runs in our veins.
"At school I tried to avoid medical examinati... Read >
Author: Yana Mikheeva23rd October 2005
The human body is a very vulnerable organism, except for the very strong line of defense that the immune system has thrown around it. Without the natural defense system provided by the immune system, the bacteria, microbes, viruses, toxins, parasites, etc... Read >
Author: Lisa Hyde-Barrett
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