Immune System

Drug moves toward FDA approval for HIV prevention

2012-05-09 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — A pill that has long been used to treat HIV has moved a step closer to becoming the first drug approved in the U.S. to prevent healthy people from becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS. The Food and Drug Administration said...

Carrie Johnson's biggest Olympic hurdle could be her health

2012-04-29 17:30:00

CHULA VISTA, Calif. — The hardest part for Carrie Johnson is not knowing. The 28-year-old kayaker can handle endless days of training on the water. She can remain calm in a race — the flatwater sprint — that requires two minutes of...

Allergies may actually protect against natural toxins

2012-04-25 13:12:00

Allergy season came early this year. Unprecedented warmth this winter caused plants to begin blooming earlier than normal, flooding the air with pollen and triggering fits of sneezing, runny noses, itches and rashes. Scientists have struggled for...

Gabriela Lena Frank's musical flights of imagination

2012-04-20 15:01:00

BERKELEY — Stories pour out of Gabriela Lena Frank like music. Sitting on an old brown leather chair in her little house, where she lives with her grand piano, books and black Labrador retriever, she is describing her upbringing and musical...

ACM Awards: After big win, Taylor Swift shouts out to missing date

2012-04-02 21:41:18

Miley Cyrus: 'everyone should try no gluten.' Experts disagree.

2012-04-10 17:39:00

This week, singer Miley Cyrus became the latest celebrity to endorse a gluten-free diet, telling fans and critics she didn’t have a weight disorder, but a food allergy (or two).� “For everyone calling me anorexic I have a gluten and lactose...

The Global Garden: Finding uses for stinging nettle

2012-04-03 16:36:05

Birds' sense of direction still up in the air

2012-04-13 15:59:00

Talk about going off-course. Scientists are heading back to the drawing board after a controversial new study undercut a widely held theory about birds' ability to detect the Earth's magnetic fields in order to navigate. Many researchers had believed...

Heroin vaccine won't 'cure' what ails addicts

2012-04-15 00:00:00

My aunt Marion is in the hospital dying of liver and kidney failure, the result of her 20-year struggle with heroin use. I was told of her imminent death the same day news broke about a vaccine against the drug. "Breakthrough heroin vaccine could render...

Experimental drug slows progression of multiple sclerosis

2012-04-17 10:11:00

An experimental drug called ONO-4641 reduced the number of lesions in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis by as much as 92%, Colorado researchers reported Tuesday. The drug must undergo a larger clinical trial before it can be approved...

Breast cancer classification promises better therapies

2012-04-19 00:00:00

Researchers have found a way to classify breast cancer tumors into 10 distinct categories ranging from very treatable to extremely aggressive, a major step on the way to the long-sought goal of precisely targeting therapies for patients. The new...

Robin Gibb awakes from coma; doctors say Bee Gee has a will of iron

2012-04-22 12:14:00

Robin Gibb has awoken from a nearly two-week-long coma as the former Bee Gees star continues to surprise in his battle with colorectal cancer.� As The Times reported about a week ago, Gibb was hospitalized -- gravely ill with pneumonia and in a coma --...

Lexy Becker gathers Easter eggs with her younger brother, Nicholas at their home in Aberdeen on Saturday. Lexy, who recently had a bone marrow transplant in Minneapolis, returned to Aberdeen for the Easter weekend. She is wearing a mask because her immune system is still weakened.

2012-04-07 21:11:00

Voiced by Adam Baldwin The persona of tough-talking Kal'Reegar measures up to what we know of Chicago-area native Baldwin, who played the cunning mercenary Jayne Cobb in "Firefly" and secret agent John Casey in "Chuck.

2012-03-12 15:51:05

There are eight foods in the United States that are responsible for the majority of food allergies. They are: peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, wheat, soy, fish, shellfish and milk. They can trigger an immune system reaction, causing digestive problems, hives and swollen airways.

2012-02-06 15:50:06