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- Vical Reports First Quarter 2008 Financial Results and Updates Key Development Programs (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Vical Incorporated today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2008. Revenues for the first quarter of 2008 were $1.9 million, compared with revenues of $1.3 million for the first quarter of 2007.
- Nurse Attitudes And Care For Patients With Sexually Transmitted Diseases (Medical News Today)
Sexually Transmitted DiseaseA Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD), also known as Venerealdisease (VD), is a disease that is transmitted primarily bysexual contact including vaginal intercourse, oral sex and analsex. STDs are also transmitted via the needles, birth canal andbreast feeding. The infection may be bacterial, fungal, viral orprotozoan.
- ASK DR. WEIL: Remedy for cold sores (Lancaster Online)
Q. What is the best treatment for cold sores and fever blistersA. Cold sores and fever blisters are one and the same. They're cau
- Mom's infection may boost epilepsy risk in offspring (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Exposure to certain maternal infections in the womb increases the odds of epilepsy in childhood, according to an analysis of data from a Danish study. Among the infections cited were cystitis (inflammation of the bladder), pyelonephritis (inflammation of the kidney and upper urinary tract), and vaginal yeast infection.
- T cells may help regulate immune system (University of Washington Daily)
The immune system is a complex mechanism protecting the body from diseases and illnesses by attacking invading pathogens and viruses. But to work properly, it needs to be able to reach the sights of infection quickly and discern between normal tissues and foreign agents.
