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A new, highly sensitive blood test that quickly detects even the lowest levels of malaria parasites in the body could make a dramatic difference in efforts to tackle the disease in the UK and across the world, according to new research published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-malaria-kit-boost-efforts-worldwide.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 17 May 2013 11:00:01 EST news288006049 U.S. health officials say last year was the worst ever for West Nile virus deaths. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-deaths-west-nile-virus-year.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 13 May 2013 17:14:37 EST news287684067 A fresh outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in central Uganda has killed at least two people, the health minister said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-dead-outbreak-ebola-uganda.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:31:19 EST news272172643 A new study reported in this week's PLOS Medicine reports findings from a study carried out in four African countries by Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer and colleagues on approaches towards expanding testing and counselling for HIV. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-provider-initiated-hiv-affect-clients-rights.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:20:02 EST news270225391 A woman had died of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus in Kosovo as two more patients were suspected of being infected with the disease, a health official said on Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-west-nile-virus-victim-kosovo.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:44:19 EST news267284651 (AP) — Doctors were slow to respond to an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda because symptoms weren't always typical, but a World Health Organization official said Friday that authorities are halting the spread of the deadly disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-ebola-uganda.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:33:00 EST news263205160 (AP) — Six more patients suspected to have Ebola have been admitted to the hospital days after investigators confirmed an outbreak of the highly infectious disease in a remote corner of western Uganda, a health official said on Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-ugandans-ebola.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:34:05 EST news262863234 (AP) — Augustine Languna's eyes welled up and then his voice failed as he recalled the drowning death of his 16-year-old daughter. The women near him looked away, respectfully avoiding the kind of raw emotion that the head of the family rarely displayed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-mysterious-disease-afflicts-young-ugandans.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 29 Jul 2012 13:31:41 EST news262787491 (AP) — The deadly Ebola virus has killed 14 people in western Uganda this month, Ugandan health officials said on Saturday, ending weeks of speculation about the cause of a strange disease that had many people fleeing their homes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-ebola-uganda.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:01:40 EST news262692083 Adults with HIV in rural sub-Saharan Africa who receive antiretroviral drugs early in their infection may reap benefits in their ability to work and their children's ability to stay in school, according to a first-of-its-kind clinical study in Uganda that compared socioeconomic outcomes with CD4+ counts—a standard measure of health status for people with HIV. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-early-hiv-treatment-socioeconomic-conditions.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:46:50 EST news262540003 An ongoing clinical study in rural Uganda, begun in 2011, suggests that many people infected with HIV/AIDS would take antiretroviral drugs if they were available to them—even before they developed symptoms from the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-clinical-rural-uganda-high-demand.html HIV & AIDS Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:32:01 EST news262189915 Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Makerere University in Uganda have used hair and blood samples from three-month old infants born to HIV-positive mothers to measure the uninfected babies' exposure—both in the womb and from breast-feeding—to antiretroviral medications their mothers were taking. The results, they said, are surprising. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-hair-samples-infants-exposure-anti-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:56:01 EST news262090547 Camera phones may be the future for assistance in medical diagnosis, especially in remote areas, according to a new study published Dec. 14 in the online journal PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-camera-valuable-tool-remote-diagnosis.html Health Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:29:26 EST news243106156 In advance of a United Nations conference today on the global challenges of treating cancer and other diseases, the UBC Graduate School of Journalism has launched an ambitious multimedia site, The Pain Project, which documents one of the greatest challenges to treating chronic illnesses: severely constrained access to morphine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-ubc-journalism-documents-global-pain.html Other Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:48:09 EST news235644474 Giving fluids rapidly through a drip into a vein (fluid resuscitation) as an emergency treatment for African children suffering with shock from severe infections does not save lives, according to a major clinical trial funded by the Medical Research Council. The ground-breaking research showed that giving children fluids slowly to replace the needs of a sick child who cannot drink, rather than rapid fluid resuscitation, is safer and more effective in aiding recovery. These findings challenge current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on how best to provide fluids to children in Africa with fever and shock caused by malaria, sepsis and other infections. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-african-trial-emergency-treatment-children.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 27 May 2011 11:10:53 EST news225713428