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USU faculty have discovered that a treatment for the Spanish Influenza pandemic may also be effective for current Avian Influenza patients. Navy Capt. Edward Kilbane, Army Col. Jeffrey Jackson and Navy Lt. Cmdr. Thomas Luke, are all alumni and faculty of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. They, along with retired Navy physician, Capt. Stephen Hoffman, published their research Tuesday, Aug. 29.

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The emotional impact of injury deepens in the first year after evacuation from combat according to a study by Thomas A. Grieger, M.D., and colleagues of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

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Researchers at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), The New Jersey Medical School (NJMS), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have discovered a mechanism that provides natural protection against intestinal roundworm infections, which affect more than 1.4 billion people throughout the world, and which may lead to more effective therapies against nematode parasites.

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Researchers at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), The New Jersey Medical School (NJMS), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have discovered a mechanism that provides natural protection against intestinal roundworm infections, which affect more than 1.4 billion people throughout the world, and which may lead to more effective therapies against nematode parasites.

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The first study to focus on U.S. soldiers seriously wounded or injured during combat in Iraq or Afghanistan and states that injury severity may predict the risk for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, has been published in the October 2006 issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry, the official journal of the American Psychiatric Association.

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Scientists from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) in Bethesda, Md., in collaboration with counterparts from the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong, have developed a vaccine to fight two deadly animal viruses that can infect and kill humans and are considered potential biological terror agents.

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A research group from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), in collaboration with European researchers, demonstrated that the peptic ulcer bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) can reach the blood circulation. Thus, the bacterium can disseminate in the body and may cause other chronic inflammatory conditions of unknown origin, such as atherosclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.

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Researchers from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) have discovered that Chlamydia, a bacteria that causes a sexually transmitted disease (STD), shares an evolutionary heritage with plants. That shared evolutionary heritage, which is not found in most other bacteria, points to a prime target for development of an effective cure for Chlamydia infections.

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The bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans survives enormous levels of ionizing radiation through a powerful mechanism that protects proteins from oxidative damage.

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The 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recipient, Dr. Sydney Brenner will present "The David Packard Lecture"聺 at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), March 28, 2007.