Herpes Articles

Herpes News : Does Herpes Cause Brain Cancer? [News]
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:37:01 GMT
Editor's Note: This story will be published in the next issue of Scientific American Mind. The deadliest and most common type of brain cancer has a strange bedfellow: cytomegalovirus, a kind of herpes present in about 80 percent of the U.S. population. Now scientists are exploiting this coincidence to treat the cancer with a vaccine that targets the virus and slows tumor regrowth. [More]

Herpes News : New approach offers chance to finally kill herpes
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:39:52 GMT
U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday they may have found a way to flush out herpes viruses from hiding -- offering a potential way to cure pesky and painful conditions from cold sores to shingles.

Herpes News : Potential herpes cure flushes out virus
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:15:44 GMT
U.S. researchers reported  they may have found a way to flush out herpes viruses from hiding -- offering a potential way to cure pesky and painful conditions from cold sores to shingles.

Scientists Make Herpes Breakthrough
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:53:09 GMT
Those infected with a herpes virus are infected for life. That's because the virus goes "latent." Sometimes, it awakes from its slumber, producing painful illnesses. Now, scientists say they know how the virus becomes latent and why it wakes up.

Scientists find herpes virus' Achilles Heel
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:39:51 GMT
London, July 3 : A virologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, says that it is possible to bring herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) out of its hiding place inside the body, which can help attack it with drugs.

Finally! Research May Yield Herpes Cure
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:14:28 GMT
A new approach shows promise against the resilient sexually-transmitted virus.

Study explains how cold sore virus hides
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:59:55 GMT
DURHAM, N.C., July 3 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say the herpes simplex virus 1 lies dormant in a nerve of the face until triggered to reawaken by sunlight, fever or other stresses.

New understanding of how herpes simplex virus 1 hides during inactive phase
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:00:43 GMT
Now that Duke University Medical Center scientists have figured out how the virus that causes cold sores hides out, they may have a way to wake it up and kill it.

New Hope Against the Cold Sore Virus
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:02:25 GMT
WEDNESDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Millions of Americans are afflicted by breakouts of unsightly cold sores, caused by the herpes simplex 1 virus, but new research is finally offering them the possibility of a cure.

"Why does XBL have ads?"
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:41:04 GMT
This drug to cure your headache may cause thrush, gonorrhoea, herpes, cancer, severe swelling of the lungs, vaginal discharge, ear infections, eye seepage, tongue fatigue and many more. Buy yours today.

Lab breakthrough opens way to cure for cold sores
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:26:05 GMT
Cold sores, the painful blemishes of the mouth caused by the herpes simplex virus, may become a thing of the past, US researchers reported on Wednesday in the British weekly journal Nature.

No place to hide for herpes virus
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:07:38 GMT
The cold sore virus lurks in neurons by switching off its "escape" proteins, making it difficult to kill – but turning them back on could drive it out

New Hope Against the Cold Sore Virus
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:47:01 GMT
Driving herpes simplex out of hiding could bring about a cure, scientists say.

New Hope Against the Cold Sore Virus
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:02:26 GMT
Copyright © 2008 ScoutNews LLC. All rights reserved. WEDNESDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Millions of Americans are afflicted by breakouts of unsightly cold sores, caused by the herpes simplex 1 virus, but new research is finally offering them the possibility of a cure.

A Dastardly Doubling... of Pleasure?
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:24:52 GMT
Image by Vox Efx on Flickr Two important rates have doubled lately: home foreclosures and STDs . We've all been inundated with information about the housing crisis, but we didn't realize there was a herpes crisis as well. Are people having reckless sex to console themselves about their home foreclosures? Probably not; the research for the STD study found rates doubled in 2003, ...

A Cure for Cold Sores?
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:05:00 GMT
Researchers have discovered how the cold sore virus hides in the body, which may be the key to a permanent cure

Mosquito-borne horse virus on the rise in Palm Beach County
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:16:15 GMT
But this one isn't contagious, and a vaccine blocks it Another deadly horse virus — and a case of it in Palm Beach County .

New Hope Against the Cold Sore Virus
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:31:42 GMT
Title: New Hope Against the Cold Sore Virus Category: Health News Created: 7/3/2008 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/3/2008

Horse deaths from eastern equine encephalitis on the rise
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:09:13 GMT
State agriculture officials warned this week that there are four times more cases already this year than in the same period last year.

10,000 involved in cerebral palsy study
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:44:55 GMT
ADELAIDE, Australia, July 3 (UPI) -- Researchers in Australia have begun the largest study of its kind in the world to understand the possible genetic causes of cerebral palsy.

Deadly equine virus on the rise in Florida
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:32:35 GMT
State agriculture officials have warned Florida equestrians that a deadly equine virus is on the rise, with more than four times as many cases reported this year as last year.

Doctor: Tell kids about STDs
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:23:15 GMT
Recently released Iowa De-partment of Public Health Sexually Transmitted Disease statistics should sound the alarm to parents, schools and communities, according to Dr. Archana Chatterjee, Creighton University professor of pediatrics and Chil-dren's Hospital epidemiologist.

Cold sore virus secret revealed
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:28:06 GMT
The secret of how the cold sore virus persists for a lifetime in the body may have been cracked by US scientists.

How should parents talk to their children about sex?
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:19:36 GMT
"I'm still a virgin and intend to stay that way," 14-year-old Eric informed me during a recent evaluation. When I gently inquired what he meant, Eric proclaimed that he hadn't had sexual intercourse but then described having unprotected anal and oral sex with his girlfriend.

Hearing-impaired teacher inspires both students and teachers alike
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:58:43 GMT
42-year-old Renato Mariano is serving as an inspiration to both students and teachers of San Lorenzo Ruiz Institute at Bakakeng, Baguio City. Despite his hearing disability, he continued to fight for his dream of helping other hearing-impaired children.

Discovery Explains How Cold Sore Virus Hides During Inactive Phase
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:15:12 GMT
Now that Duke University Medical Center scientists have figured out how the virus that causes cold sores hides out, they may have a way to wake it up and kill it. Cold sores, painful, unsightly blemishes around the mouth, have so far evaded a cure or even prevention.

NanoViricides' Anti-EKC Drug Candidate To Be Studied In Japan
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:15:32 GMT
NanoViricides, Inc. (OTC BB: NNVC.OB) (the "Company"), said that an internationally renowned Japanese ophthalmologist and corneal researcher, Kazuo Tsubota, MD, PhD, has agreed to perform confirmatory animal efficacy studies of the nanoviricide anti-EKC drug candidate, EKC-Cide™, against EKC (epidemic kerato-conjunctivitis) in Japan. Dr.

Singing dentist wins million-pound music contract
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:25:26 GMT
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - An opera-loving dentist is to swap his drill for a microphone after winning a four-album recording contract worth one million pounds ($1.99 million).

Teens talk about sex, domestic violence
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:44:36 GMT
Decades later and a hundred or so miles from where he grew up in Memphis, Joe McCall can still see his father’s Army boots striking his mother. “I remember it like it happened this morning,” he said Tuesday. “When he kicked her, she balled up like a baby when it’s just born.

The Interloper's Report: Untap the Rockies
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:16:55 GMT
The Sports Fan has long been besieged by beer advertisements during those necessary evils we know as pitching changes and TV timeouts.

Help & support
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:09:44 GMT
Addiction

Truesday: Blowing It All Away
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:25:02 GMT
*The views expressed in Truesday are those of the author and do not represent Austinist as a whole. Thank heavens.* -The Editors Do you know what this coming weekend is? Do you? It’s many things to many people. Some of it important, some of it fancy, and all of it mysterious in practice. Like voodoo. Or Ellen Degeneres’s half-smile. But since most people appear to be too ...

The perfect date
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:03:56 GMT
Jill Barrs knew something had to change after one too many dates with a dude calling himself a neo-hippie.

10,000 People In World-first Cerebral Palsy Study
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:12:52 GMT
Researchers from the University of Adelaide, Australia, have launched the largest study of its kind in the world in a bid to better understand the possible genetic causes of cerebral palsy. The study requiring cheek swabs of mothers and their children aims to gather genetic samples from 10,000 people right across Australia.

Discovery could lead to cold sore cure
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:42:09 GMT
Now that researchers have found how cold sores operate, they believe they may soon discover how to eradicate the virus that causes them.

Thomas Sutcliffe: The perilous joys of middle-aged sex
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:05:57 GMT
Do you remember herpes? You'll need to be of a certain age to conjure the particular memory I have in mind, which is of the spasm of sexual anxiety that went round when the disease first really made it into the public consciousness, after the incidence of infections leapt in America. Yikes, I can remember thinking. Weeping sores (routinely described as "agonising"), no prospect of a cure, the ...

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Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:31:47 GMT
GO AMERICAN TALES For these one-act musicals, writer-adapter Ken Stone and composer Jan Powell turn to great names in American literature: Mark Twain’s rollicking The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton and Herman Melville’s enigmatic Bartleby the Scrivener . In Twain’s tale, set in the early days of the telephone, feckless Alonzo (Daniel Blinkoff) attempts to call his aunt in ...

How Cold Sore Virus Hides During Inactive Phase
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:20:02 GMT
Now that scientists have figured out how the virus that causes cold sores hides out, they may have a way to wake it up and kill it. Cold sores, painful, unsightly blemishes around the mouth, have so far evaded a cure or even prevention.

Medical briefs
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:11:33 GMT
Light the Night Walk in St. Peters park The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Gateway Chapter is recruiting teams and sponsors for the nationwide Light the Night Walk on Sept. 12 at City Centre Park, adjacent to the St. Peters Rec-Plex, and Forest Park in St. Louis.

STD Rate Doubles For Middle-Aged People
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:43:47 GMT
People over 45 show up in clinics with cases of genital warts and herpes at an increasing rate.

10,000 People in World-first Cerebral Palsy Study
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:17:53 GMT
Researchers from the University of Adelaide, Australia, have launched the largest study of its kind in the world in a bid to better understand the possible genetic causes of cerebral palsy, lead by Chief Investigator Alastair MacLennan.

Wildlife Experts Try to Catch Monkey in Orange Park
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:50:55 GMT
ORANGE PARK -- Wildlife experts are trying to snare a monkey that has been running around an Orange Park subdivision for the past several days.  Now we're learning what officials are trying to do to catch it -- and how zoo experts think this monkey could have ended up here on the First Coast.

10,000 people in world-first cerebral palsy study
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:12:29 GMT
Researchers from the University of Adelaide, Australia, have launched the largest study of its kind in the world in a bid to better understand the possible genetic causes of cerebral palsy.

Deaths & Funerals
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:24:08 GMT
LING, Julius Julius fled his homeland, Hungary in 1956 to Australia, then to Canada, raising a son. Working for Statistics Canada he enjoyed carpentry, traveling, bowling and Authored "Guiding Stars". Predeceased by his wife Julia, Survived by his son Zoltan (Serena) and sister Tilda. He will be greatly missed by all who love him. Service, July 3, 2008 at 2pm at First Memorial, 4725 Falaise ...

Middle-Aged People See Doubling Of STD Rate
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:51:21 GMT
More people over 45 report infections such as genital warts and herpes that are often associated with younger people.

Lisa Miceli's alleged voice-mails
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:32:17 GMT
Fred Sperling, it is a criminal offense in this state of Pennsylvania to leak private phone conversations that I had with you to the media or to anybody else without my consent.

Top Ten Best Car Ads Of The 1980s [Top Ten Car Commercials]
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:25:16 GMT
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Hey, Cherie!
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:24:38 GMT
Hey, Cherie! I am a girl in 10th grade who spread a virus. It wasn't herpes or a disease; instead it was a computer virus that had attached itself into my computer. The virus was sent through my computer address book. I have a lot of friends so it went to many people.

Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Over 45s On The Increase
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:15:22 GMT
A collaborative study which included researchers from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) West Midlands and is published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI), shows an increasing rate of sexual infections in people over 45 years in the West Midlands.

State has no proof that backs Delaware Valley STD claim
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:09:22 GMT
The state Department of Health on Tuesday said it has no information to support the Delaware Valley School District’s claim that more than 300 students have been diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases, including one with HIV.

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