RSS Feeds | New Methodology Using GPS And PDA Technology Results In Better, Faster Data For Malaria Programs
August 31, 2007 08:00:00A paper being released in the August issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene illustrates how technology can improve knowledge needed to help prevent malaria, one of the worlds leading fatal infectious diseases.A team of researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed a new method for survey sampling and data collection that utilizes personal digital assistants (PDA) with Global Positioning Systems (GPS). [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Discovery Could Help Stop Malaria At Its Source The Mosquito
August 30, 2007 07:00:00As summer temperatures cool in the United States, fewer mosquitoes whir around our tiki torches. But mosquitoes swarming around nearly 40 percent of the worlds population will continue to spread a deadly parasitic disease malaria. Now an interdisciplinary team led by researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has found a key link that causes malarial infection in both humans and mosquitoes. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| IBM And University Scientists Launch Global Computing Effort To Find Cures For Dengue, West Nile, An
August 29, 2007 00:00:00In an effort to halt the spread of deadly infectious diseases now threatening to reach epidemic proportions around the world, an unprecedented research effort was launched by IBM, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), and the University of Chicago to discover drugs to treat and cure dengue fever, West Nile encephalitis, hepatitis C, and a host of related diseases including yellow fever. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Interest In The Medical Services Dengue Fever Test Kit Continues To Grow
August 24, 2007 07:00:00Medical Services International Inc. (Pink Sheets: MSITF) wishes to announce that interest in its VScan Dengue Fever kit continues to increase. Originally, the Company had projected that it would sell approximately 250,000 VScan Dengue Fever tests in the latest fiscal year. Based on independent inquiries and orders from distributors the Company has increased its projections for Dengue Fever test kits to 400,000. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| CDC Researchers Find Possible Animal Source For Marburg Virus
August 23, 2007 07:00:00Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and their collaborators have for the first time successfully identified Marburg virus infection in a common species of African fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus). Marburg virus causes severe, often fatal, hemorrhagic fever in people and non-human primates. Bats have been suspected of carrying the virus, but until now, evidence of Marburg virus infection in bats had not been detected. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| African Children Need Free Insecticide-treated Bed Nets
August 21, 2007 18:00:00Experts have today called for international agencies to provide insecticide-treated bed nets for all children in Africa as the most equitable way of tackling malaria. Their call is supported by new research co-funded by the Wellcome Trust showing how successful a scheme run by the Kenyan government has been at distributing the nets.Over a million children die from malaria in Africa each year. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Free Distribution Of Insecticide-treated Mosquito Nets Can Save Lives
August 17, 2007 08:00:00 Malaria is still responsible for over a million deaths every year, even though it has been known for some years that sleeping under an insecticide-treated net (ITN) greatly reduces the chance of being bitten by the mosquitoes which carry the disease. There have been heated arguments as to how best to increase the use of such nets, particularly for children and pregnant women. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Monitoring The Burden And Control Of Neglected Tropical Diseases
August 15, 2007 11:00:00Could anemia be used to assess the burden and control of neglected tropical diseases?In this weeks PLoS Medicine, a team of researchers argues that measuring anemia could be a good way of monitoring the burden and control of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) such as schistosomiasis and intestinal worms. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Koshland Science Museum Announces Fall Programs, USA
August 15, 2007 09:00:00Beginning this September, the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences will bring top scientists and policy experts together in a series of public programs to discuss important scientific issues of the day, including the global burden of infectious disease, the latest breakthroughs in energy technology, and scientific and ethical issues surrounding stem cell research. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Edible Fish Feast Beats Malaria
August 10, 2007 22:00:00The emerging threat of pesticide resistance means that biological malaria control methods are once again in vogue. New research published in the online open access journal BMC Public Health shows how Nile tilapia, a fish more commonly served up to Kenyan diners, is a valuable weapon against malaria mosquitoes. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| DDT Highly Effective Against Resistant Mosquitoes
August 10, 2007 00:00:00A study published by the Public Library of Science (PloS) One found that three out of five DDT-resistant Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, carriers of human diseases like dengue and urban yellow fever, avoided huts sprayed with DDT. The chemicals unique spatial repellent action, combined with its moderate irritant and toxic properties, reduced the risk of disease transmission by nearly three-quarters. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| The Buzz On Malaria Symptoms
August 9, 2007 09:00:00Malaria symptoms, such as headache, joint pain, fever, sweating, nausea and vomiting, can appear flu-like in nature and can easily be overlooked, but failure to diagnose and treat malaria can lead to coma and possible death. Other common symptoms of malaria include back pain, chills, dry cough, enlarged spleen, impaired function of the brain or spinal cord, seizures and loss of consciousness. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| CDC Will Provide Investigational New Medicine For Treatment Of Severe Malaria, USA
August 7, 2007 09:00:00The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has received permission from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to provide intravenous artesunate for emergency use in the United States for persons with severe malaria. Artesunate, a derivative from the "quing hao" or sweet wormwood plant, has been used worldwide for more than 20 years for the treatment of malaria. HHS/FDA has not approved artesunate for marketing in this country. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Genetic Research On Malaria Parasite Identifies Potential Targets For Vaccine Development
August 7, 2007 00:00:00Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for the most severe forms of human malaria. Invasion of host red blood cells is an essential step in the complex life cycle of this parasite. During the process of invasion, P. falciparum, which appears in the stage of a merozoite, is exposed to antibodies from the immune system. Consequently, the proteins of the merozoite that interact with red blood cells are a possible weak point, and thus a very clear target to develop vaccines. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
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