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...more research. One plausible conclusion is that pediatricians should avoid giving small children a large number of vaccines at once, even if they are thimerosal-free. Young children have an immature immune system that's ill-equipped to handle an overload, says Dr. Judy Van de Water, an immunologist who works with Pessah at U.C. Davis. "Some vaccines, such as those aimed at viral infections, are designed to ramp up the immune system at warp speed," she says. "They are designed to mimic the infection. So you can imagine getting nine at one time, how sick you could...
Data also show that the stress of a bad marriage can undo much of the good that comes with a happy one. In a series of studies, Kiecolt-Glaser and her husband, immunologist Ronald Glaser, also of the Ohio State University College of Medicine, found that "negative marital interactions," such as arguments, name-calling and nonverbal cues like eye-rolling lead to increases in cortisol and decreases in immune function and even wound-healing. The effects were observed in both sexes, but particularly strongly in women. The eye-rolling studies go even deeper than that, with related research conducted...
Glimcher, the immunologist who is chair of the committee, said the group’s aim is to make Harvard’s policies “user-friendly” for inventors...
...researchers last week may bring doctors one step closer to finding a cure for asthma. Until now, the scientific community had thought that one form of immune cells, “helper T cells,” were behind the respiratory ailment. But a new study, designed by Havard immunologist Dale T. Umetsu and executed by Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Omid Akbari along with Stanford researcher John Faul, has implicated a different type of immune cell, “natural killer T” (NKT) cells. The discovery has prompted talk of a new wave of treatment methods for asthma...
...workplace," declares Dr. James Fries, an immunologist at Stanford University, "is the prime location from which to operate the lever of health promotion and disease prevention." Most of the nation's $400 billion health-care bill goes to treat ailments resulting from such potentially controllable problems as alcoholism, smoking, high cholesterol, hypertension and obesity. "Avoiding at least three of them would improve things dramatically," contends Regina Herzlinger, a professor at Harvard Business School and an expert in corporate health-care policy...