Neutropenia

  • CDC Launches Effort to Protect Cancer Patients from Infections
    Each year more than 1 million patients receive cancer treatment in an outpatient oncology clinic. Despite advances in oncology care, infections from both community and healthcare settings remain a major cause of hospitalization and death among cancer patients receiving ...More
    October 25, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • Genetic Makeup Influences Susceptibility to Severe Sepsis
    In the June issue of Anesthesiology, researchers take aim at identifying genetic risk factors for sepsis – a leading cause of death for critically ill patients. Genetic makeup has been identified as a key factor leading to the development of sepsis, a systemic ...More
    June 14, 2010
    Posted in News
  • “Good” Bacteria Keep Immune System Primed to Fight Future Infections
    Scientists have long pondered the seeming contradiction that taking broad-spectrum antibiotics over a long period of time can lead to severe secondary bacterial infections. Now researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine may have figured out why. The ...More
    January 27, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Researcher Identifies New Target to Prevent Fatal Flu Lung Complication
    Research led by Dr. Jay Kolls, professor and chairman of genetics at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has identified a therapeutic target for acute lung injury resulting in acute respiratory distress syndrome, a highly fatal complication of influenza infection. The ...More
    September 29, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Chronic Hepatitis C Patients Have New Treatment Option
    A new combination therapy of daily consensus interferon (CIFN) and ribavirin is effective for some people with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) who do not respond to standard therapy. The treatment works particularly well in interferon-sensitive patients who have lower fibrosis ...More
    May 28, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Partnership Aims to Reduce Infections Among Cancer Patients
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Foundation, the CDC and Amgen today announced the launch of a three-year campaign to reduce infections among cancer patients. The campaign will provide resources and educational tools to help patients, families and ...More
    May 27, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Strategy for Fighting Persistent Bacterial Infections is Discovered
    Researchers at National Jewish Health have discovered a promising strategy for destroying the molecular scaffolding that can make Pseudomonas bacterial infections extremely difficult to treat in cystic fibrosis patients, wearers of contact lenses, and burn victims. Jerry ...More
    March 23, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Scientists Identify New Congenital Neutropenia Syndrome and Causative Gene Mutation
    A team of scientists has discovered a new syndrome associated with severe congenital neutropenia (SCN), a rare disorder in which children lack sufficient infection-fighting white blood cells, and identified the genetic cause of the syndrome: mutations in the gene ...More
    January 2, 2009
    Posted in News
  • White Blood Cell Uses DNA 'Catapult' to Fight Infection
    SALTLAKECITY – U.S. and Swiss scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding how a type of white blood cell called the eosinophil may help the body to fight bacterial infections in the digestive tract, according to research published online this week in Nature ...More
    August 13, 2008
    Posted in News
  • How Flesh-Eating Bacteria Attack the Body’s Immune System
    “Flesh-eating” bacteria are able to survive and spread in the body by degrading a key immune defense molecule, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The ...More
    August 13, 2008
    Posted in News
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