http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. There may be nearly four times as many people infected with the tropical disease dengue globally than was previously believed, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-dengue-cases-common.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:51:56 EST news284561504 (Medical Xpress)—Stopping the spread of dengue infection— a potentially fatal tropical disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito— could be one of the biggest challenges of our time. About half of the human population is at risk for this disease, and threat levels are on the rise in the United States due to increased international travel and an ideal climate for mosquitoes in humid, hot areas such as Florida. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-fralin-entomologists-genetics-deadly-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:40:05 EST news283072309 Today, The Lancet Infectious Diseases published a new report that examines the global economic burden of Chagas disease. In the first study of its kind, researchers measured the health and economic impact of Chagas disease and found that the total economic burden of Chagas disease matches or exceeds that of many more well-known diseases such as rotavirus, Lyme disease and cervical cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-highlights-chagas-disease-health-socio-economic.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:30:03 EST news279472375 The mosquitoes that spread dengue fever tap into the domestic networks of humans, along with their bloodstreams, finds a study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-tracking-dengue-fever-domestic-networks.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:04:28 EST news278247859 About 200 million people across 75 of the poorest countries in the world are now infected by the blood parasite Schistosoma haematobium (S. haematobium). The infection causes severe urogenital disease, but also causes bladder cancer in a number of patients and why this occurs is not clear. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-mechanism-parasite-cancer.html Cancer Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:37:22 EST news277634228 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers from The University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) have identified the nerves involved in the painful tropical disease called ciguatera. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-nerves-ciguatera-deadly-tropical-disease.html Medical research Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:09:47 EST news274439349 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Georgia will soon begin a study designed to identify new ways of determining treatment efficacy in Chagas disease, a potentially fatal tropical disease that infects approximately 8 million people worldwide and is the leading parasitic killer in the Americas. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-diagnostic-chagas-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:20:05 EST news272795837 Could pigs be an unexpected source for transmitting the deadly Ebola virus? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-canada-lab-probes-pig-link.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:10:01 EST news272198526 An outbreak of the West Nile virus in Serbia has killed an elderly woman and infected 20 other people with the mosquito-borne disease, health officials said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-dead-serbian-west-nile-virus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:03:51 EST news265971390 New research by University of Warwick historian Dr Tim Lockley has found why yellow fever had a green bias in 19th century fever outbreaks in the southern states of the US. Almost half of the 650 people killed by yellow fever in Savannah Georgia in 1854 were Irish immigrants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-green-biased-yellow-fever-swept.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:42:31 EST news263475736 (Medical Xpress) -- Scientists have solved an 80-year old mystery linked to an ancient but neglected tropical disease that affects more than 100 million people in sub-Saharan Africa. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-student-snail-fever-mystery.html Medical research Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:13:18 EST news263027566 (Medical Xpress) -- Infections from certain parasites can compromise the immune system, leaving it less able to fight other diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-parasite-infection-tail.html Immunology Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:20:41 EST news260094032 (Medical Xpress) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have taken a major step forward in the quest to develop new, safer drugs for the treatment of sleeping sickness. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-scientists-sickness-treatment.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:04:23 EST news254548825 Wearing shoes could eradicate "in our lifetime" a tropical disease affecting an estimated 4 million people worldwide, according to a medic in the Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-tropical-disease-affecting-millions.html Health Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:46:39 EST news251624702 Internet-based news and Twitter feeds were faster than traditional sources at detecting the onset and progression of the cholera epidemic in post-earthquake Haiti that has already killed more than 6500 people and sickened almost half a million, according to a new study published in the January issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-cholera-haiti-tracked-rapidly-social.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:09:46 EST news245354976 Already cursed by floods and suicide bombings, Pakistan now faces a new menace from an unprecedented outbreak of the deadly tropical disease dengue fever. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-dengue-fever-infects-pakistan.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:19:23 EST news236488753 Scientists have made a promising advance for controlling dengue fever, a tropical disease spread by mosquito bites. They've rapidly replaced mosquitoes in the wild with skeeters that don't spread the dengue virus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-specialized-mosquitoes-tropical-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:32:52 EST news233411352