As Viruses Mutate, Flu Vaccine Becomes Inefficient

Modulation of microglial/macrophage activation by macrophage inhibitory factor (TKP) or tuftsin (TKPR) attenuates the disease course of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

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"Preventative and therapeutic modulation of macrophage/microglial activity significantly alters the outcome of EAE at symptomatic stages. Specific molecular targets have been identified that represent potential avenues of exploration for the treatment and prevention of MS."

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Obesity epidemic not tied to drop in smoking rate

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Decreasing rates of cigarette smoking are not the reason for rising rates of obesity in the US, a researcher from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland, has concluded.

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Salmonella In Peanut Butter Has Infected Over 600 People

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According to the latest report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over 600 people in 47 states are reported to have been infected from eating certain brands of peanut butter contaminated with the Tennessee strain of Salmonella since 1st August 2006.None of the people affected by this outbreak has died.The update to the situation is reported in 01 Jun 2007's issue of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).

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Early Action Key To Reducing Flu Death Toll

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Nearly 40 years ago, MIT Professor Richard Larson spent a week sick in bed with the worst illness he'd ever had-the particularly virulent strain of flu that swept the globe in 1968. "That was the sickest I'd ever been," Larson recalled. "I really thought that was the end." It took him two or three months to recover fully from the illness.

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