Public Health Reports First Confirmed Zika Virus Case Acquired Through Sexual Transmission in California
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Sacramento, California - California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Director and State Public Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith today announced the first confirmed case of Zika virus acquired in California. This case involves transmission of Zika virus through sexual contact with a Zika infected partner who returned from a country where Zika virus was circulating, not from a mosquito bite. The woman who was infected was not pregnant and had not traveled out of the country. She and her partner have fully recovered.
Public Health Calls Attention to World Tuberculosis Day
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Sacramento, California - California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Director and State Public Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith today is inviting people in California to observe World Tuberculosis (TB) Day. On this day, events are being held around the world to raise awareness about TB on the anniversary of the 1882 discovery of the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the cause of TB.
Lili Yang is working to genetically engineer immune cells to fight cancer
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Los Angeles, California - The immune system is equipped to fight many types of invasions by germs or viruses, but often is unable to fight against deadly diseases such as cancer. Lili Yang, a member of the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center, is working to change that. With new funding awarded by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), Yang hopes to engineer the body’s immune system to give it the ability to attack and kill cancerous cells, while leaving the body’s healthy tissues unharmed.
Preventing sperm’s ‘power kick’ could be key to unisex contraceptive
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Berkeley, California - UC Berkeley biologists have discovered the switch that triggers the power kick sperm use to penetrate and fertilize a human egg, uncovering a possible source of male infertility but also a potential target for contraceptives that work in both men and women.
What you need to know about sleep
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Los Angeles, California - Dr. Alon Avidan, a professor of neurology and director of the UCLA Sleep Disorders Center, offers these tips for getting better sleep:
Why some tumors withstand treatment
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - New cancer drugs allow doctors to tailor treatment based on the genetic profile of a patient’s tumor. However, these drugs don’t work at all in some patients, and they lose their effectiveness in others.
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