University of Iowa researchers have discovered what causes the lethal effects of staphylococcal infective endocarditis – a serious bacterial infection of heart valves that kills approximately 20,000 Americans each year.
According to the UI study, the culprits are superantigens — toxins produced...
Is capeoria,boxing,ju jistsu, and muay thai a deadly mixture to have since you would know how to kick high and low, block with your knees(muay thai) and having strong legs , grapples, arm bars, leg locks and fast agile reflex with hard punches and knowing how to move around unbalnced(capoeria)...
This is completely reassuring, we don't have to worry. A vial containing a virus that causes hemorrhagic fever has gone missing from a research facility in Texas. Okay, maybe we should worry. More »
Researchers in the US have identified a natural antiviral protein that stops HIV and certain other deadly viruses like Ebola, Rift Valley Fever, and Nipah, from entering host cells. They hope the discovery will help efforts to develop broad-spectrum antivirals against many of the deadly viruses...
New research suggests that lowering excessive levels of a protein in immune system cells could be a strategy to clear an infection that is deadly to patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). Researchers determined that normalizing levels of the protein, called p62, in cells from mice carrying the most...
A combination of the drugs pazopanib and paclitaxel shows promise in slowing anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC), according to a Mayo Clinic-led study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. The two drugs together resulted in greater anti-cancer activity in ATC than either drug...
Grapefruit juice fits squarely in the category of "health food," so it might surprise you to know that a new study says grapefruit can cause seriously unhealthy side effects–including sudden death, hallucinations, acute kidney failure, muscle damage, respiratory failure, gastrointestinal...
In laboratory experiments, scientists have eliminated metastasis, the spread of cancer from the original tumor to other parts of the body, in melanoma by inhibiting a protein known as melanoma differentiation associated gene-9 (mda-9)/syntenin. More than 1 million cases of skin cancer are...
We've been keeping an eye on the deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis which, according to the CDC, has now killed eight people, and sickened over 100. But until recently, there hasn't been a firm estimate regarding how many people may have been infected by the steroid shots from a sketchy...
A piece of genetic detective work by an international team has uncovered a deadly virus not seen before that likely caused a small isolated outbreak of acute hemorrhagic fever in central Africa in the summer of 2009. The outbreak, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), killed two people...
The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have each released new tools and information to help track deadly healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in nursing homes and other long-term care settings. Potentially deadly HAIs...
Working together, two scientific organizations have achieved a key milestone earlier than planned: using X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance to probe at the atomic level, they have determined the structure of 1,000 proteins from more than 40 organisms that cause deadly diseases...
Food Safety News is reporting that the CDC has confirmed a deadly strain of E. coli has already sickened over a dozen individuals across six states, and lead to the death of one child in Louisiana. The worst part? They don't know what's causing it yet. More »Post from: Blisstree
A U.S. Forest Service Officer on foot patrol along a popular trail in Utah made a shocking discovery over the weekend. A couple of crazy men rigged the entrances to a rudimentary shelter with booby traps. People could have died. More »
So I thought York was crazy?!
Like mental home kinda crazy?!
I'm sooo lost!!
What's with the two personalities?!
&the trees planted in the bodies to grow the red trees?!
&the purple foggy gas it puts off?!
&the monsters?!
York was really zach the whole time?!
Uhhhhhhh *spark* *spark*...
So I thought York was crazy?!
Like mental home kinda crazy?!
I'm sooo lost!!
What's with the two personalities?!
&the trees planted in the bodies to grow the red trees?!
&the purple foggy gas it puts off?!
&the monsters?!
York was really zach the whole time?!
Uhhhhhhh *spark* *spark*..
Give me...
Humongous and Deadly "Giant Pencil Launcher" Proves Grade School Fantasies Will Kill
A few weeks ago, outrageous weapon master Joerg Sprave made a small-but-wonderful pencil-launcher that looked destined to deadly-up classrooms around the world. But Joerg...