http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. According to Sir Richard Feachem, Director of the Global Health Group at the University of California, San Francisco, USA, and senior author of the study, "The malaria control strategies implemented over the last decade have been highly successful in reducing malaria worldwide. However, these strategies must evolve to respond effectively to the changing patterns of infection in low transmission areas. More sophisticated and targeted approaches to identifying those people who are infected, and responding promptly and effectively, must be put in place. The good news is that these new approaches are being pioneered with great success in countries such as China, Sri Lanka, and Swaziland."* http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-malaria-strategies-patterns-infection.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:30:01 EST news285142960 Infant girls exposed to high levels of the pesticide DDT while still inside the womb are three times more likely to develop hypertension when they become adults, according to a new study led by the University of California, Davis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-prenatal-exposure-pesticide-ddt-linked.html Health Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:18:38 EST news282284307 Death rates from malaria have fallen significantly over the last decade, but plenty of work remains, with hundreds of thousands of children still dying from the disease every year, experts said Wednesday in a discussion at Harvard Kennedy School. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-malaria-sides-experts-explore-business.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:20:04 EST news279189608 In malaria-endemic countries, 350 million people are predicted to be deficient in an enzyme that means they can suffer severe complications from taking primaquine, a key drug for treating relapsing malaria, according to a study funded by the Wellcome Trust and published in this week's PLOS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-common-enzyme-deficiency-hinder-eradicate.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:00:07 EST news272046676 The World Health Organization said Thursday that governments in the Mekong region must act "urgently" to stop the spread of drug-resistant malaria which has emerged in parts of Vietnam and Myanmar. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-urges-action-drug-resistant-malaria.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 27 Sep 2012 07:14:16 EST news267948850 (Medical Xpress)—University of Nottingham Malaria experts have found a way of disabling one of the many phosphatase proteins which breathe life into the malaria parasite. The result is a mutant which is unable to complete the complex life cycle crucial to its development. The discovery could help to design drugs to save thousands of lives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-mutant-parasite-malaria-tracks.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:58:09 EST news267429470 (Medical Xpress)—Despite nearly three decades of conflict, Sri Lanka has succeeded in reducing malaria cases by 99.9 percent since 1999 and is on track to eliminate the disease entirely by 2014. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-malaria-sri-lanka-decades-conflict.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:10:02 EST news265538929 Giving young children medicine once a month during the rainy season to protect them against malaria could prevent tens of thousands of deaths each year in some areas of Africa, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-seasonal-malaria-african-children-analysis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:46:51 EST news258205602 Over 200 million people contract malaria each year, and according to the World Health Organization, an estimated 655,000 people died from malaria in 2010. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-weapon-malaria.html Medical research Tue, 08 May 2012 12:00:09 EST news255696341 Dietary restriction has already been shown to extend the lives of laboratory animals, but recent research suggests the beneficial effects of eating less may extend to improved recovery from surgery and better resistance to disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-calories-surgery.html Health Tue, 08 May 2012 08:29:47 EST news255684579 Since the 1930s, there have been 75 documented episodes of malaria resurgence worldwide, most of which were linked to weakening of malaria control programs, finds a new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Malaria Journal. The study, which is allied to the theme of this year's World Malaria Day (25th April 2012) "Sustain Gains, Save Lives: Invest in Malaria", found that the most common reason for weakening of malaria control programs was funding disruptions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-malaria-resurgence-linked-reduction-malaria-control.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:25:35 EST news254456717 Malaria continues to be a major disease worldwide, but while funding projects are working hard to improve malaria prevention it is difficult to measure how effective these interventions are. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Malaria Journal has used a Lives Saved Tool (LiST) model to show that the increase in funding for the prevention of malaria has prevented 850,000 child deaths in the decade between 2001 and 2010 across Africa. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-malaria-children.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:23:48 EST news252123822 In this week's PLoS Medicine, Dejan Zurovac and colleagues from the Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Program, Nairobi, Kenya discuss six areas where text messaging could improve the delivery of health services and health outcomes in malaria in Africa, including three areas transmitting information from the periphery of the health system to malaria control managers and three areas transmitting information to support management of malaria patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-text-messaging-malaria.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:00:01 EST news249054447 New research by scientists at the University of Southampton could lead to the design of more effective drugs to combat malaria. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-vitamins-drugs-combat-malaria.html Medical research Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:48:03 EST news246894470 In the event that a vaccine for the prevention of malaria is licensed and ready for use (such as the research malaria vaccine RTS,S, which currently looks promising), distributing and giving the vaccine to three-month old infants via the World Health Organization's Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) will be the most efficient mechanism in high transmission areas but for lower transmission areas, mass vaccination every 5 years might be a more efficient vaccination strategy, a new study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-malaria-vaccination-mass-transmission-areas.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:39:26 EST news246044361 Estimates of malaria incidence derived from routine surveillance data suggest that 225 million episodes of malaria occurred worldwide in 2009. This estimate is lower than other published figures, such as those from the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP), particularly for estimates of malaria incidence outside Africa. Richard Cibulskis and colleagues at the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland present a critique of different estimation methods of the worldwide incidence of malaria in this week's PLoS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-global-malaria-incidence.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:00:03 EST news243621841 A study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and their Zambian colleagues detected contrasting patterns of drug resistance in malaria-causing parasites taken from both humans and mosquitoes in rural Zambia. Parasites found in human blood samples showed a high prevalence for pyrimethamine-resistance, which was consistent with the class of drugs widely used to treat malaria in the region. However, parasites taken from mosquitoes themselves had very low prevalence of pyrimethamine-resistance and a high prevalence of cycloguanil-resistant mutants indicating resistance to a newer class of antimalaria drug not widely used in Zambia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-contrasting-patterns-malaria-drug-resistance.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:03:04 EST news240594553 Nearly a third of all nations in which malaria is endemic are working to eliminate the disease within a decade, according to a new report released Monday in the United States. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-malaria-nations.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:18:22 EST news238083493 A cheap, common heartworm medication that is already being used to fight other parasites in Africa could also dramatically interrupt transmission of malaria, potentially providing an inexpensive tool to fight a disease that kills almost 800,000 people each year, according to a new study published today in the July edition of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-cheap-common-drug-malaria-transmission.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:34:58 EST news229192478