Researchers are trying to understand how maternal immune responses might contribute to certain neurological disorders in offspring.
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New evidence suggests that opioids cause the immune system to run amok and, surprisingly, increase pain. Does this mean that opioids might be contributing to the chronic pain epidemic?
GMOs may very well have filled up that syringe.
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Public health experts enlist the molecular biology tools that create genetically modified organisms – as well as the GMOs themselves – in the fight against emerging infectious diseases.
One-third of the world’s population is latently infected with the bacteria that cause tuberculosis.
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It can take the body up to three weeks to fully recover from the strain of running a marathon, so here’s some foods that are scientifically proven to help aid recovery.
Leonard C Harrison, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) ; Peter Vuillermin, Deakin University, and Yuxia Zhang, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
New research has found children who are born with overly active immune cells are more likely to develop allergies to milk, eggs, peanuts, wheat and other common foods.
Being too clean isn’t what’s making us sick. It’s the loss of biodiversity in the bacteria and organisms that live in our bodies and work with the immune system.
The original antigenic sin has made fighting diseases really difficult.
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Researchers have found a promising way of kicking the AIDS virus out of its hiding place in infected cells, potentially removing the main obstacle to curing HIV.
People who have big weekends tend to take more sickies at work.
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There’s no doubt chronic alcohol abuse changes the body’s infection-defence system. But here’s what the research says on whether a binge-drinking weekend can make people more susceptible to illness.
Breastfeeding reduces the risk of infections in early life.
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A Harvard University researcher last week suggested western women stop breastfeeding after a couple of months to reduce the risk of passing potentially harmful toxins on to infants via breast milk.
Candida albicans lives in the mouth or digestive tract of 50% of people.
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Director, Children’s Health and Environment Program and World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Children’s Health and Environment, The University of Queensland