For cancer patients who may have endured surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy and are now free of cancer, getting life back on track can be a challenge. While it’s normal to feel fatigue during treatment and immediately after, for about a third of people the tiredness can persist. A new self-help manual and DVD, however, devised [...]
Nexavar, a drug developed by Bayer Corporation and approved in Europe and the U.S. to treat kidney cancer, allowed the extension of life expectancy of patients with an advanced liver cancer by about 44%, according to a study published Monday in the United States, transmit AFP. The study, conducted by Joseph Llovet, director of research [...]
New Drugs aim Cystic Fibrosis More than two decades after scientists identified the gene responsible for cystic fibrosis, drug makers are finally edging closer to new treatments—a long journey that underscores the challenges of translating genetic discoveries into actual drugs. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc., Pfizer Inc. and PTC Therapeutics Inc. are among the companies working on [...]
TG4010 – lung cancer possible treatment NEW DELHI: We might one day be able to stop or at least slow down lung cancer progression – that is by now the most common tumor all over the world by mortality. According to some scientists, a new vaccine, TG4010, was created. They say that this vaccine combined [...]
Alpha radiation vs cancer The trail of a new drug for prostate cancer was halted in the UK because the results were too good. Doctors at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London concluded that it would have been unethical not to offer it to all 922 cancer patients on the trial after the drug was [...]
Non tuberculosis mycobacterial lymphadenitis can cause localized (affecting the lymph nodes of stations). Lymphadenitis occurs mainly in children aged 1-5 years. Infection is most frequently localized in the anterior cervical chain lymph nodes, where the presence of only one swollen lymph node, or the presence of a group of nodes, enlarged and painless. Enlargement of [...]
Muscle may be affected by viral infections (influenza, Coxsackie B virus) or parasitic infections (trichinosis, cysticercosis, toxoplasmosis). All these infections can accompany myalgia (muscle pain). Myositis and streptococcal clostridiana will be accompanied by acute rhabdomyolysis (breakdown of skeletal muscle, followed by release into circulation of a pigment myoglobin = toxic which can cause acute renal [...]
Trench fever is a febrile infectious disease, caused by the bacterium B. quitana. Highest incidence of this disease has been recorded among soldiers who fought in Europe during the First World War. Trench fever usually is not fatal. In recent years several outbreaks were reported new infections, microbiological studies identifying two causal agents: B. henselae [...]
Corynebacterium infections other than diphtheria bacillus (see Diphtheria). Coryneform bacteria include normal flora microorganisms, depending on the terrain of the body, can cause opportunistic infections, favored by decreased immune defense capability for the system. These bacteria are human pathogens with low virulence. The number of illnesses caused by these pathogens has increased in the last [...]
Mediterranean spotted fever is an infectious disease pathogen produced by Rickettsia conorii, the disease occurs mainly in southern Europe, in Asia, but also within the entire African continent. Vector, and reservoir Mediterranean spotted fever bacterium that causes brown dog tick is. Mediterranean spotted fever, is known as the “fever button.” Other names for the same [...]
Swine influenza is a highly contagious respiratory disease in pigs caused by swine influenza viruses type one A. In addition, influenza C viruses can cause disease in pigs. Current strategies to control swine influenza virus in animals include pigs typically one bivalent vaccines. Swine influenza is an infection caused by one of the few types [...]
Cat scratch disease, is an infectious disease, occurs when a cat scratch (which caused a skin lesion), manifested by painful regional lymphadenopathy and persistent (may persist for weeks or months). If the infection disseminates, the patient will present generalized adenopathy, often confused with leukemia pathological situation. Cat scratch disease is triggered by B. henselae inoculation [...]