Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health has established a new Gillings Innovation Lab to track and map tropical infectious diseases such as malaria, using state-of-the-art molecular and demographic methods.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health has established a new Gillings Innovation Lab to track and map tropical infectious diseases such as malaria, using state-of-the-art molecular and demographic methods.
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
According to a new analysis, neglected tropical diseases as a group may have surpassed HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as the most prevalent infectious diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
( University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health has established a new Gillings Innovation Lab to track and map tropical infectious diseases such as malaria, using state-of-the-art molecular and demographic methods.
Physorg (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
According to a new analysis published September 24th in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, "The Neglected Tropical Diseases of Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review of Disease Burden and Distribution and a Roadmap for Control And Elimination,", neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) as a group may have surpassed HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as the most prevalent infectious...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
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HEALTH EQUITY (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
The Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD) held a global symposium in Mozambique last week, bringing together world-renowned tuberculosis experts to focus on critical issues facing TB treatment today, such as tackling resistant strains and treatment shortenings.
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
£50m to tackle tropical diseases
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
from Peace FM Online, Ghana Ghana and the United States, starting this September, would begin distributing medicines to about eight million people as part of a new initiative to fight neglected tropical diseases, President George Bush, has announced.The two countries, he said, stood as one in their work to free people from diseases. President Bush was speaking after bilateral talks at the Oval Office...
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
( Public Library of Science ) A study published today in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases reveals that between a quarter and a third of pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa, or almost 7 million, are infected with hookworms and at increased risk of developing anaemia.
ONE (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
President Bush just wrapped up a joint press conference with Ghana’s President Kufuor to receive Ghana’s official delegation. In his remarks, President Bush pledged to begin distributing medicines to about 8 million people “as part of a new initiative to combat neglected tropical diseases,” and he reiterated his support of the Millennium Challenge Compact. Key [...]
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Researchers have heralded "probably the biggest breakthrough in tropical medicine in 25 years" with the development of an effective cure for diseases that affect 150m...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Nigeria has become the first country in the world to play the Buzz and Bite malaria prevention campaign on television. The Buzz and Bite Campaign is the creation of Canadian animation producer and director Firdaus Kharas, working with a team of skilled professionals. The series was launched in Ottawa and at the United Nations by Mr. Kharas in advance of the first World Malaria Day, April 25, 2008....
Scientific American (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
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