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Malaria resurgence is linked to reduction of malaria-control programs

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 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Malaria prevention saves children's lives

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 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How text messaging can help control malaria

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 hea ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Test and Treat' model offers new strategy for eliminating malaria

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 ...

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Research on vitamins could lead to the design of novel drugs to combat malaria

New research by scientists at the University of Southampton could lead to the design of more effective drugs to combat malaria.

Medical research created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New model for possible malaria vaccination suggests mass vaccination for low transmission areas

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 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Estimating global malaria incidence

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 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Contrasting patterns of malaria drug resistance found between humans and mosquitoes

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 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Malaria on way out in third of nations hit: study

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.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Malaria prevention strategies could substantially cut killer bacterial infections, study suggests

Interventions targeting malaria, such as insecticide-treated bed nets, antimalarial drugs and mosquito control, could substantially reduce cases of bacteraemia, which kill hundreds of thousands of children each year in Africa ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The malaria mosquito is disappearing -- but it is not just good news

The incidence of malaria in many African countries south of the Sahara is falling rapidly. A Danish-Tanzanian research group has discovered that the mosquito carrying the malaria parasite has practically disappeared from ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study: Cheap, common drug could dramatically reduce malaria transmission in Africa

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 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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