Monthly Archives: November 2009
Synovial fibroblasts spread Rheumatoid Arthritis to other joints
New research shows that rheumatoid arthritis synovial fibroblasts help spread destructive arthritis to other joints in the body, according to research by Lefevre and colleagues published online on the 8th November in the journal Nature Immunology. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is … Continue reading
Filed under Medicine
Hitting the headlines this week
Homeopathy and the NHS Coma man is conscious MRC chief steps down and heads straight to top job at Cambridge Wellcome launches “Identity Project“ World Aids Day next week on 1st December Herschel telescope observes death of biggest star known … Continue reading
Interventions in childhood and adolescence reduce teenage pregnancy
Interventions in early childhood and adolescence help reduce teenage pregnancy and could be included in public policy according to a systematic review by Angela Harden and colleagues published free in the British Medical Journal last week. The United Kingdom and … Continue reading
Filed under Public Health
Hitting the headlines this week
no baguette bits in sight and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is back on heavy rain and flood-warnings in the UK Belle du Jour gives a quick chat to New Scientist Evidence for person to person transmission of tamiflu-resistant … Continue reading
M cells, gatekeepers or gateway to the gut
Glycoprotein 2 is the M cell receptor for type I pili on bacteria and is important for the immune response to these bacteria, according to research by Hase and colleagues published last week in the journal Nature. The mucosal immune … Continue reading
Filed under Immunology, Microbiology
Research scientist revealed to be Belle du Jour
Belle du Jour, the once anonymous blogger behind the popular Diary of a London Call Girl blog, which spawned a TV show starring Billie Paper and several books, has today been revealed as Dr. Brooke Magnanti, a research scientist working … Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
Pneumonia is world’s biggest childhood killer
Pneumonia is an acute respiratory infection of the lungs caused by viruses, bacteria and fungi. Despite pneumonia being treatable and preventable, estimates suggest that over 2 million children die every year from pneumonia, making it the leading cause of childhood … Continue reading
Filed under Infectious Disease, Medicine, Public Health
Major bacterial pathogen jumped from humans to poultry
It’s not much fun being a broiler chicken. Not only will you eventually end up on someone’s plate but you get tarnished with the same brush as all of bird-kind and blamed as a harbinger of an infectious microorganism (bird … Continue reading
Filed under Infectious Disease, Microbiology
