Pathologists Win Gold Medal At Chelsea Flower Show, UK
The Royal College of Pathologists and the Health Protection Agency have won a highly prestigious Gold Medal at this year's Chelsea Flower Show. The joint exhibition explores the possibility that climate change may increase the risk of malaria returning to the UK.
Hope For Treating The Most Infectious And Neglected Diseases - Visceral Leishmaniasis, Chagas Disease, And Sleeping Sickness
The Paris-based Institut de Recherche pour le D~A veloppement (IRD) and DNDi announced the implementation of scientific cooperation projects for developing treatments against visceral leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, and sleeping sickness. One of these projects concerns group of quinolines molecules that reached the optimization phase, a step that represents a significant breakthrough to become a drug candidate.
Serious Illness In Infants Infected With Chikungunya Virus
The chikungunya virus rarely harms the infants of mothers who areinfected early in pregnancy, but frequently causes serious issuesincluding persistent brain injury to babies born to mothers who getthe virus near the time of delivery. This was released on March, 17, 2008 in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine.
One In Three Malaria Drugs Failing In Africa
35% of antimalarial drugs sold in six major African cities failed basic quality tests according to Plos ONE, a peer-reviewed open-access journal. The study further found that artemisinin monotherapies, which the World Health Organisation explicitly rejects as substandard, remain common in Africa.
Neal's Yard Remedies Stores Rapped By Medicines Regulator, UK
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has clamped down on a homeopathic remedy intended to be viewed as a treatment or preventive for malaria sold by the cosmetic chain, Neal's Yard Remedies. The MHRA has received confirmation from the company that the remedy, Malaria Officinalis 30c, will be removed from sale immediately.
Highest Replikin Concentrations And Cyclical Behavior Related To Human Mortality Are Found In Malaria Trypanosomes
Replikins Ltd. has found that very high concentrations of its replikin genetic sequences are found in the trypanosomes that are the infectious agents in malaria. The levels found by the company are in fact the highest replikin concentrations observed to date in any infectious disease agent.
Transmission Of Malaria Blolcked In Animal Tests
By disrupting the potassium channel of the malaria parasite, a team of researchers has been able to prevent new malaria parasites from forming in mosquitoes and has thereby broken the cycle of infection during recent animal tests.
The EU Must Tackle Malaria To Achieve The Millennium Development Goals
As the global community commemorates the Day of the African Child, the figures show the alarming fact that one child dies every thirty seconds of malaria in Africa. Despite some progress in reducing child mortality as part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), each year hundreds of thousand of children continue to die from this preventable and curable disease.
Best Code For Disease Detection, Bar None
Malaria and dengue fever will be the early targets of new trans-Pacific research using minuscule "barcodes" to detect disease.The University of Queensland (UQ) and the University of Washington (UW) are poised to launch the research after Queensland Premier Anna Bligh announced $650, 000 from the National and International Research Alliances Program on June 18.
First Hideyo Noguchi Africa Award Won By Professor Brian Greenwood
Professor Brian Greenwood, Manson Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has been awarded the first Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize for research by Prime Minister Fukuda, and also met their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan at the TICAD4 conference in Yokohama.