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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Spray yourself with a DEET-based insect repellent and the mosquitoes will leave you alone. But why? They flee because of their intense dislike for the smell of the chemical repellent and not because DEET jams their sense of smell, report researchers at the University of California, Davis. Their groundbreaking findings was published Monday, Aug. 18, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
If you knew what possessed the young Jim Sacchettini to become a biochemist, you might look upon the "bar scene" more approvingly. But that story's for later. Instead, ponder what Sacchettini calls "the diseases of the poor" - infectious diseases that not long ago were considered wiped from the face of the Earth - tuberculosis and malaria, for instance. Sacchettini saw these maladies firsthand in the...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
The long-term prognosis of patients infected with West Nile virus is good, according to a new study appearing in the August 19, 2008, issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians' flagship journal. This is the largest study of the long-term outcomes of West Nile virus infection. West Nile virus is a potentially serious central nervous system infection spread by mosquitoes....
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ENN: Top Stories (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Concentrating efforts on malaria alone is unlikely to sustain malaria control or achieve its eradication, say Peter J. Hotez and David H. Molyneux in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. They suggest an integrated approach, linking malaria and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Together malaria and the seven most common NTDs cause two million deaths a year.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
Malaria is one of the most devastating diseases afflicting humanity. It infects and debilitates about 600 million people and kills up to three million people every year, mainly in the wet tropical regions of the world. Children and pregnant women are at particularly high risk. The malaria parasite is injected into humans by an infected mosquito.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Described in the July 10, 2008 issue of the journal Nature, the research reveals the shape of the Ebola virus spike protein, which is necessary for viral entry into human cells, bound to an immune system antibody acting to neutralize the virus. The structure provides a major step forward in understanding how the deadly virus works, and may be useful in the development of potential Ebola virus vaccines,...
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Brightly coloured insects feeding on tropical plants may be a signal that the plant contains chemicals useful in fighting cancer or tropical diseases, researchers suggested in a recently published paper.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Brightly colored beetles or butterfly larvae nibbling on a plant may signal the presence of chemical compounds active against cancer cell lines and tropical parasitic diseases, according to researchers at Smithsonian's Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Such clues could speed drug discovery and provide insight into the ecological relationships between tropical-forest plants and insects that feed...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
A new study - done on a scale an order of magnitude greater than anything previously attempted in the field of malaria - has uncovered an arsenal of proteins produced by the malaria parasite that allows it to hijack and remodel human red blood cells, leaving the oxygen-carrying cells stiff and sticky.
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Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - The annual meeting of National task forces for Onchocerciasis (river blindness) Control (NOTFs) is underway here to review progress in the battle against one of the neglected tropical diseases by the World Health Organization (WHO) African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC).
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Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Elimination of onchocerciasis and other neglected tropical diseases in Africa greatly depends on well-managed, resourced and stre n gthened national health systems, a senior official of the World Health Organisat i on (WHO) said here Tuesday.
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Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - A three-day international meeting of disease control experts has ended here with participants advocating the integration and co-implementation approach in dealing with Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and Malaria control interventions.
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Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Ethiopia's State Minister for Health, Shiferaw Teklemariam, has urged African countries to use the community-directed intervention strategy, which has proved very effective in the control of onchocerciaisis (r i ver blindness), to tackle other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) for improved service delivery.
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Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Despite the fact that neglected tropical diseases afflict a significant size of the world population, particularly in sub-Sahara A frica, the attention and resources given to their control remains negligible, as enior official of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said here Wednesday.
