Tropical Diseases News

Pathologists Win Gold Medal At Chelsea Flower Show, UK

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:40:05 GMT

The Royal College of Pathologists and the Health Protection Agency have won a highly prestigious Gold Medal at this year's Chelsea Flower Show.

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Hope For Treating The Most Infectious And Neglected Diseases - Visceral Leishmaniasis, Chagas Disease, And Sleeping Sickness

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:40:04 GMT

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.

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Serious Illness In Infants Infected With Chikungunya Virus

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:20:09 GMT

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.

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One In Three Malaria Drugs Failing In Africa

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:20:09 GMT

35% of antimalarial drugs sold in six major African cities failed basic quality tests according to Plos ONE, a peer-reviewed open-access journal.

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Neal's Yard Remedies Stores Rapped By Medicines Regulator, UK

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:20:08 GMT

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.

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Highest Replikin Concentrations And Cyclical Behavior Related To Human Mortality Are Found In Malaria Trypanosomes

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:20:07 GMT

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.

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Transmission Of Malaria Blolcked In Animal Tests

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:20:06 GMT

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.

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The EU Must Tackle Malaria To Achieve The Millennium Development Goals

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:20:04 GMT

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.

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Best Code For Disease Detection, Bar None

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:20:03 GMT

Malaria and dengue fever will be the early targets of new trans-Pacific research using minuscule "barcodes" to detect disease.

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First Hideyo Noguchi Africa Award Won By Professor Brian Greenwood

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:20:06 GMT

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.

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