http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A researcher at the University of Southampton, working as part of a team from the UK and USA, believes the global eradication of malaria could be achieved by individual countries eliminating the disease within their own borders and coordinating efforts regionally. The team's findings have been published in the journal Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-malaria-defeated-globally-eradication.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:28:24 EST news281103994 Many nations battling malaria face an economic dilemma: spend money indefinitely to control malaria transmission or commit additional resources to eliminate transmission completely. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-malaria-longlasting-benefits-countries.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:00:20 EST news280676304 Identifying areas of malarial infection risk depends more on daily temperature variation than on the average monthly temperatures, according to a team of researchers, who believe that their results may also apply to environmentally temperature-dependent organisms other than the malaria parasite. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-approach-malaria.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:50:02 EST news280513767 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 The World Health Organisation heralded major gains Tuesday in the fight against malaria, one of the developing world's biggest killers, but warned universal access to treatment remains elusive. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-hails-big-gains-anti-malaria.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:48:41 EST news254483311 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 Scientists have discovered a new target in their fight against the devastating global disease 'malaria' thanks to the discovery of a new protein involved in the parasite's life cycle. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-slamming-malaria-life.html Medical research Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:00:23 EST news249227668 Pyramax, a fixed-dose combination of pyronaridine and artesunate, becomes the first antimalarial to be granted a positive scientific opinion from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) under Article 58. This once daily, 3-day treatment is indicated for acute, uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum and blood-stage Plasmodium vivax malaria in adults and children over 20 kg. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-pyramax-positive-opinion-ema.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:40:48 EST news249043214 As researchers work to eliminate malaria worldwide, new strategies are needed to find and treat individuals who have malaria, but show no signs of the disease. The prevalence of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic malaria can be as high as 35 percent in populations with malaria and these asymptomatic individuals can serve as a reservoir for spreading malaria even in areas where disease transmission has declined. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-strategy-malaria.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:40:02 EST news247767850 A new study suggests that climate change, driven by greenhouse-gas emissions and land-use changes, will cause patterns of malaria infection to change over the next 50 years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-climate-change-effects-malaria.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:50:03 EST news247479385 Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute have demonstrated that the Anopheles mosquito's innate immune system could be genetically engineered to block the transmission of malaria-causing parasites to humans. In addition, they showed that the genetic modification had limited impact on the mosquito's fitness under laboratory conditions. The researchers' findings are published December 22nd in the Open Access journal PLoS Pathogens. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-scientists-mosquito-immune-malaria.html Immunology Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:25:06 EST news243800698 Indoor spraying with the insecticide bendiocarb has dramatically decreased malaria transmission in many parts of Benin, new evidence that insecticides remain a potent weapon for fighting malaria in Africa despite the rapid rise of resistance to an entire class of mosquito-killing compounds, according to a study published today in the October edition of The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-scientists-alternative-insecticide-malaria-transmission.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:52:00 EST news237055912 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