How the immune system fights back against anthrax infections

ScienceDaily (2011-06-15) -- Scientists have uncovered how the body's immune system launches its survival response to the notorious and deadly bacterium anthrax. The findings describe key emergency signals the body sends out when challenged by a life-threatening infection.

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Lyme disease bacteria take cover in lymph nodes

ScienceDaily (June 16, 2011) — The bacteria that cause Lyme disease, one of the most important emerging diseases in the United States, appear to hide out in the lymph nodes, triggering a significant immune response, but one that is not strong enough to rout the infection,

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Quicker detection and treatment of severe sepsis

Sepsis is the name of an infection that causes a series of reactions in the body, which in the worst case can prove fatal. The problem for both patients and doctors is that the early symptoms are difficult to distinguish from less dangerous infections such as a severe flu or winter vomiting disease. A researcher in Sweden has now discovered a substance in the blood which shows both whether a patient has sepsis and how serious the case is.

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Quicker detection and treatment of severe sepsis

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Cancer survivor battles for warning labels on cell phones

The first thing I remember is waking up in the emergency room," Marks said. The cause of his seizure, a malignant brain tumor, was the size of a golf ball. Surgeons were able to remove the cancer, but he said the recuperation was difficult. ...

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Cancer survivor battles for warning labels on cell phones - KPLC 7 News, Lake Charles, Louisiana

Prostate cancer - risk factors and warning signs

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among males and the second cause of cancer death. The prostate is a sex gland about the size of a walnut that is part of the male reproductive system. It is inside the pelvis at the base of the penis, ...

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Prostate cancer - risk factors and warning signs

Got Allergies? Hold Onto Your Hankies

 Got allergies? Hold onto your hankies | recordonline.com

WARWICK — For allergy sufferers like Lisa Douglass, the agony couldn't be worse this year.

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Plant Extract May Be New Therapy for Hay Fever, Study Suggests

ScienceDaily (Apr. 30, 2011) — Fighting hay fever with a plant extract -- this works, as was shown in a clinical study conducted by researchers of the Center of Allergy & Environment (ZAUM) of Helmholtz Zentrum München and Technische Universität München. Allergic symptoms were alleviated significantly better than with the usual histamine receptor antagonists. In a paper published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology the scientists explained how this plant extract works and how effective it is.

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