Allergies/Immunology

Staying in Beijing can prove to be fatal for your health. The heavily polluted air in the Chinese capital, within 24 hours of inhaling, can cause serious heart problems for the people. This fact has come out in a study done by two researchers in pulmonarydefine medicine and critical care at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

An experimental AIDS vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health, which was all set to be tested on a large scale, has come a cropper, reason being apprehensions about the merits of proceeding with the experiment. The decision to call of the proposed study was taken at an individual level, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

A new British study has revealed that HIVdefine mortality rates have slashed in the developed countries where people with HIV got their hands on anti-retroviral drugs, which were introduced in 1996.

Kroger Food Store, the largest American supermarket today announced a voluntary recall of its ground beef products following reports of links with the recent E.coli outbreaks. Over 35 cases of E.coli infections have been reported from Ohio and Michigan since recent weeks, of which at least 14 people have been hospitalized, the CDC said.

The new heavy duty five-in-one “super” vaccine Pentacel, a combination of multiple vaccines into a single shot has been given green signal by FDA. This will consequently decrease the number of shots needed to protect babies and toddlers from potentially dangerous infections.

Amoeba might just be a single celled organism, but it certainly has the potential to run havoc with your immune systemdefine, managing to dodge it successfully, by cleverly getting rid of the tell tale chemicals on its surface, says the latest research by US scientists.

A new report has found that alcohol and drug abuse are making Scots almost twice as likely to commit homicide or kill themselves as compared to people living in England and Wales.

Remember that annoying smell that chokes your senses when you step into the shower with new curtains. Well, turns out that the smell given off by the vinyl shower curtains isn’t just annoying, it might just be as hazardous to your health too, according to a study conducted by Canadian and US environmental groups.

Shocking survey results come to the fore, as 81% Vietnamese women are found to be carriers of one or the other STDdefine.

If you are one of those who can’t stop smoking – remember you will be slashing your life by 5 to 10 years, according to a new mortality risk chart.