Coimbatore: Paediatric doctors in Coimbatore city have urged the Union govt to include the mumps vaccine in the Universal ...

Humans have an exceptional ability to deal with viruses. In most cases, your immune system is able to fight an infection. On the other hand, your body provides a spa-like environment that is temperate ...

I was diagnosed with oral cavity cancer and will need surgery. I spoke to another patient who underwent a similar procedure, and he said he had many issues afterward with hyposalivation, which ...

A vaginal yeast infection is caused by an overgrowth of yeast (a type of fungus) in the body. People with diabetes are more prone to getting these infections because their blood sugar levels are often ...

The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between people, however, it faces extra challenges.

Rarely, your surgeon might need to remove the facial nerve. This runs down the side of the face and through the salivary gland. You will have stitches or clips and a dressing over your wound. Your ...

Once ingested in a blood meal, the virus needs to pass through the mosquito midgut to infect the salivary glands before being ... facilitating viral infection. The identification of the exact ...

Diagnosis was confirmed by autopsy or needle biopsy of the liver in 8 cases. Normally, the parotid glands are not palpable, and a concavity exists in the region between the superior ramus of the ...

The diagnosis of HIV infection is most commonly accomplished using tests to detect antibody to HIV using a screening test, followed by a supplemental test for confirmation. However, in many ...

Objective Primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) is characterised by chronic hyperactivation of B lymphocytes. Salivary gland epithelial cells (SGECs) could play a role in promoting B-lymphocyte activation ...

Objectives: Our study aimed to clarify the etiology and molecular variation of the target organ, salivary glands (SGs), in pSS by stratifying them into distinguishable subgroups, which could inform ...