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May hepatic granulomas be part of the histological spectrum of chronic hepatitis C?
While older large series of patients with hepatic granulomas have found sarcoidosis and tuberculosis to be the most common causes of hepatic granulomas, recent works have noted some patients with chronic hepatic C and hepatic granulomas and no other obvious associations.   view more (2008-12-29)

Reconstruction of the lower jaw with a fibula autotrasplant
The University Hospital of the University of Navarra has carried out a complicated surgical operation on a child who had a particularly large benign tumour located in the mandibular region. The procedure involved the extraction of the lower jaw and its substitution by a bone transplant from the fibula of the patient.   view more (2005-05-09)

TB -- hiding in plain sight
Current research suggests that Mycobacterium tuberculosis can evade the immune response.   view more (2009-05-22)

New beryllium reference material for occupational safety monitoring
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with private industry and other government agencies, have produced a new reference material for beryllium.   view more (2009-09-23)

MRI detects early heart damage in patients with sarcoidosis
To detect heart damage early in patients with the immune system disorder sarcoidosis, who are at elevated risk of dieing from heart problems, magnetic resonance imaging is twice as sensitive as conventional methods.   view more (2006-11-13)

Measuring Biodiversity and More: PLoS Biology Press Release
Biodiversity: measuring up to the loss Species are disappearing faster than biologists can identify and document them. Mindful of this crisis, nearly 200 countries (under the Convention on Biological Diversity) agreed to staunch the loss of biodiversity by 2010. However, to meet this goal, biologists need reliable metrics to monitor global... view more... (2004-10-20)

Researchers discover new disease-causing bacterium in patients with rare immune disorder
Scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have discovered a new bacterium and determined that it can cause serious lymph node infections in patients with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD)-a rare immune disorder that leaves individuals susceptible to frequent... view more... (2006-04-14)
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