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...disease is not something to be ignored. It starts out harmlessly enough, perhaps with just a little blood on the toothbrush. But the bacteria responsible are relentless. If left alone, they eventually produce infected pockets of pus, invade the roots of teeth and put people on the path to being Polident users. As many as 3 of every 4 Americans are somewhere along that path...
...there a way to skip surgery and still avoid dentures? A small group of American researchers thinks so, at least in some cases. They are experimenting with several different techniques designed to control the disease-causing bacteria with drugs instead of knives. Such therapies are already used in some European countries, and advocates question why the Food and Drug Administration has not yet approved the treatments for general...
...only treatment currently available for Lyme disease, which is caused by a spirochete, a type of bacteria, is antibiotics, typically amoxicillin. Telford's effort to bring the Lyme disease vaccine trial to Nantucket began several years ago with a phone call from Yale University researchers who told him: "We have a vaccine which works...
...Erol Fikrig, an assistant professor of medicine at Yale, had isolated and duplicated a protein present on the surface of the bacteria, carried by deer ticks, which is thought to cause the disease...
Possessing that protein made possible the creation of a vaccine, which when injected into laboratory mice, protected 95 percent of the animals against Lyme disease infection. The body's immune system should react to the protein as it would the bacteria, but without any of the harmful effects of the disease. The vaccination allows the body to build up an arsenal enabling it to quickly defeat the real bacteria should it later attack the body...