It’s ancient knowledge that a spoonful of turmeric can soothe inflammation, but now a UA scientist is exploring how the complex structure of natural plants long used in Asia can offer medicinal benefits in other ways, many of them unnoticed in the West.
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This is a story about Charlotte, who is three days old at this writing, and a medical puzzle that might affect her susceptibility to many serious diseases. Or it might not. For infants, their first year is crucial. The kind of environment a child of that age needs to switch on certain molecules to lift their disease immunity is fairly well known. For example, living on a farm and being around a dog and lots of microbes are helpful factors, but only for some.
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Virtually everybody you know has the wily virus called CMV. Global rates of infection run from 60 to 90 percent, 100 percent in places with concentrated populations like New Delhi or Hong Kong. And at a typical daycare center, most children have it or soon will, since a bit of saliva or urine will carry it along. For most of us, our immune system keeps it in check. But it can be life threatening to those whose immunity has been compromised.
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When you are in a hospital, what you don’t know can hurt you. Case in point: That person carrying drug-resistant bacteria as he enters with you is a potential source of germs that can kill you. One UA expert, Dr. Donna Wolk, is out to improve the odds of avoiding hidden, highly contagious threats, sometimes called “hospital superbugs,” lurking in many hospitals around the world.
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Early detection is the single, most important factor in cancer survival. That’s why regular checkups and early testing are so necessary. Unfortunately, current testing methodologies have limitations that prevent very early cancer detection. Cell abnormalities have to reach about 1 mm in size before they can be seen by CT, MRI or ultrasound scans.
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