Infectious Disease
Search for Anti-Aging information and Medical News in Infectious Disease within the Longevity and Age Management section
Stroke risk may rise in those with common infectious pathogens such as Chlamydia pneumoniae, Helicobacter pylori, and herpes simplex viruses.
Continue reading…Antioxidant compounds retard the ability of influenza virus to damage a key protein in lungs, crippling the viral mechanism causing liquid buildup in lung tissue.
Mathematical modeling reveals categories of healthcare workers who are more likely to spread pathogens if they are lax in hand hygiene.
Continue reading…New avenues for disease treatment open as two-thirds of CFS patients are found to have the XMRV retrovirus circulating in their blood.
Continue reading…Men whose mothers were pregnant with them during the peak of the 1918 pandemic flu experience a higher rate of heart disease later in life.
Continue reading…In that influenza stresses the cardiovascular system, the chances of having a heart attack may increase in those with the flu.
Continue reading…Norman Pace, from University of Colorado at Boulder (USA), and colleagues analyzed 50 showerheads from nine US cities and found that about 30% harbored high levels of Mycobacterium avium, a group of bacteria that can cause lung infections when inhaled or swallowed.
Continue reading…In that a substantial body of evidence supports an association between chronic inflammations and/or infections with cancers, Mine Tezal, from The State University of New York, Buffalo (USA), and colleagues assessed the effect of advanced gum disease (chronic periodontitis) on the prevalence of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).
Continue reading…Chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne disease vastly more unpleasant than West Nile virus, poses a new health threat to residents of the United States and Europe.
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VIDEO: Brain Age Workshop
Dr. Eric Braverman, Director of The Place for Achieving Total Health
(PATH Medical), Chairs the
Brain Age Workshop taking place Dec. 9, 2009.
Held in conjunction with the Winter Session of the 17th Annual World
Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine & Regenerative Biomedical Technologies.
The Brain Age Workshop features presentations on Brain Mind Assessment
via Neuropsychological Analysis, Movement Deficiency Syndrome,
Hormones and the Brain, Nootropic Drug Mechanisms, and Traumatic Brain
Injury. View this video to learn about Dr. Braverman’s brain-based
model of aging and age modulation.
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