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Streptococcus pneumoniae is a bacteria that is the leading cause of ear infections, bacteremia (a mild blood infection compared to sepsis), and pneumonia, the disease. Pneumonia the disease is a lung infection that can be caused by any sort of pathogen (bacteria, fungus, virus).
Merck has won approval for a “pneumonia” vaccine that may prevent Streptococcus pneumoniae in adults. In kids, the elderly, and others with a weakened immune system, Streptococcus pneumoniae is a potentially deadly infection, and can easily spread to other parts of the body.
So far, the pneumonia vaccine has been shown to trigger antibodies in adults, and is believed (based on construction) to have longer, more powerful protection than previous versions of pneumonia vaccines, which were only approved for children. Read more about the new pneumonia vaccine…
Celebrate Good Heart Health With Friends This 14th.
Although there’s plenty of obvious reasons to want a healthy libido this Valentine’s Day, the truth is it can be a good check-in for overall health, and remind us to care for our hearts this Valentine’s Day—and not just in the emotional sense!
If you had a New Year’s Resolution dealing with weight loss (like most people), you might be feeling pretty good after a month or so of exercising and eating right. Both of these things can improve libido, which can help be an objective gauge for progress so far.
Read more about remember heart health this holiday…
One of the more common (and more reasonable) critiques of colloidal silver is that the only real tests performed on the products sold as colloidal silver are done in a lab, in test tubes and petri dishes. The concern being that it may react differently in the body—something may prevent it from working, or it may be bad for human health in some unknown way, the underlying concern being a cry of we just don’t know!
Of course, this argument ignores the broad and long history of colloidal silver. It’s impossible to say how many Americans currently support their immune system with colloidal silver (or some silver water variant like ionic silver, which can be made by home silver generators without any statistics reported), but it’s at least in the tens of thousands, if not more.
That’s (at least) tens of thousands of people who haven’t turned blue. Tens of thousands who have overwhelmingly positive things to say about colloidal silver. Tens of thousands who haven’t landed in the hospital from some sort of silver caused problem.
Read more about colloidal silver…
Mycoplasma infection can cause any number of symptoms, and may even increase the odds of certain types of cancer.
Most often seen as mycoplasma pneumonia, mycoplasma infections can affect many parts of the body, causing general infection symptoms (fever, weakness) as well as localized symptoms (like for mycoplasma pneumonia: a sever cough with sporadic mucus).
Mycoplasma is a super tiny bacter that’s hard to detect, and even harder to treat with traditional medications: it tends to be antibiotic resistant due to its lack of a cell wall.
Mycoplasma infection may be tied to the numerous outbreaks of walking pneumonia that have been ongoing since last summer. Because it’s hard to test for and harder to treat, some doctors think some of the persistent disease outbreaks might be attributable to mycoplasma infection.
In either case, the best way to prevent mycoplasma infection is standard cold and flu care: wash hands often, cough into your elbow, and make sure to support your immune system.
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Hepatitis C has been shown to be able to access the brain—an important breakthrough that may lead to improved treatment of Hepatitis C symptoms in the future.
The blood-brain barrier is like a more tightly-woven version of the cell barriers that exist throughout the body; only very small, or very specific substance types can get through. The research, which focused on post-humus Hepatitis C sufferers, found that Hepatitis C is compatible with the blood-brain barrier, allowing it to penetrate into the brain.
Read more about Hepatitis C symptoms…
