Flu Help Is On The Way

Queensland has been gripped by one of the worst flu seasons in years, leaving many patients with secondary bacterial infections.
Despite, the Australian Medical Association urging people to be vaccinated against the flu every year, many don’t take heed. And if luck doesn’t prevail and an infection develops antibiotics become the treatment of choice.
However, behind the [...]

Viral Protein Is An Effective Preventative Against Ear Infection

For parents, 8 million cases of acute middle ear infections every year add up to a lot of sleepless nights and trips to the pediatrician. But new research from a collaboration between Rockefeller University and St. Jude Children’s Hospital could change all that.
In PLoS Pathogens, Rockefeller’s Vincent A. Fischetti and colleagues at St. Jude show [...]