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(Imperial College London) Scientists reveal how a type of white blood cells, called Natural Killer cells, protect the body from tumors and virus-infected cells.

(Imperial College London) The death rate among patients prescribed a statin in a major trial that ended in 2003 is still lower than those given a placebo, even though most participants in both groups have been taking statins ever since.

(Imperial College London) Localized badger culling in response to bovine tuberculosis outbreaks increases the risk of infection in nearby herds, according to a new analysis.

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(Imperial College London) Patients admitted to hospital with inflammatory bowel disease face a sixfold greater risk of death if they become infected with Clostridium difficile, a new study has found.

A protein which could be targeted for a tuberculosis vaccine has been discovered by scientists at Imperial College London.

A PLoS article was recently published on health IT's impacts on healthcare quality and safety. In the article, a form of meta-research was performed; systematic review articles were collected and then reviewed systematically.

Black AD, Car J, Pagliari C, Anandan C, Cresswell K, et al.

(2011) The Impact of eHealth on the Quality and Safety of Health Care: A Systematic Overview. PLoS Med 8(1): e1000387. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000387.

(Imperial College London) A variant of last year's pandemic influenza linked to fatal cases carried a mutation that enabled it to infect a different subset of cells lining the airway, according to new research.

The study, due to be published next week in the Journal of Virology, suggests that the mutant virus could have impaired the lungs' ability to clear out germs.

(Imperial College London) The number of children admitted to English hospitals with bacterial pneumonia decreased by a fifth in the two years following the introduction of a vaccine to combat the disease, according to a new study published today in the journal Thorax.

(Imperial College London) Genetic differences that make some people susceptible to developing meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia, and others naturally immune, are revealed in a new study of over 6,000 people, published today in Nature Genetics.

The research, led by Imperial College London and the Genome Institute of Singapore, is the largest ever genetic study of meningitis and septicaemia caused by meningococcal bacteria.