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Nanomal smartphone-like malaria detection device to be field tested one year earlier than scheduled

A pioneering mobile device using cutting-edge nanotechnology to rapidly detect malaria infection and drug resistance will be ready for field testing this year, one year ahead of schedule.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 26, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Malaria elimination strategies should adapt to changing patterns of infection

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 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 14, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Statin drug shows promise for fighting malaria effects

Researchers have discovered that adding lovastatin, a widely used cholesterol-lowering drug, to traditional antimalarial treatment decreases neuroinflammation and protects against cognitive impairment in a mouse model of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New whole plant therapy shows promise as an effective and economical treatment for malaria

In the worldwide battle to curtail malaria, one of the most prevalent and deadly infectious diseases of the developing world, drug after drug has fallen by the wayside as the malaria parasite has become resistant ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New research helps predict susceptibility to Burkitt lymphoma

New research, presented this morning at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), has identified important associations between Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria and endemic Burkitt Lymphoma (eBL) ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 11, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists report injectable formulation of malaria parasites achieve controlled infection

In a breakthrough that could accelerate malaria vaccine and drug development, scientists announced today that, for the first time ever, human volunteers were infected with malaria via a simple injection of cryopreserved sterile ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The effects of turmeric therapy on cerebral malaria studied

A Centenary researcher is off to New Delhi to study the impact on cerebral malaria of the major ingredient of turmeric, curcumin.

Medical research created Oct 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Genetic make-up of children explains how they fight malaria infection

Researchers from Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center and University of Montreal have identified several novel genes that make some children more efficient than others in the way their immune system responds to malaria ...

Genetics created Sep 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Benign' malaria key driver of human evolution in Asia-Pacific

The malaria species rampant in the Asia-Pacific region has been a significant driver of evolution of the human genome, a new study has shown. An international team of researchers has shown that Plasmodium vivax malaria, the mo ...

Medical research created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Novel technique demonstrates interactions between malaria parasite and HIV

The World Health Organization estimates that in 2011 there were 216 million cases of malaria and 34.2 million people living with HIV. These diseases particularly afflict sub-Saharan Africa, where large incidence ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Aug 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two studies offer new insights from the front lines of battle against malaria

A pair of provocative studies in the July 2012 issue of The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (AJTMH) provides a window into the intense ground war now underway against malaria. In one review, researchers offer ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jul 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Methods developed to enable large-scale analysis of malaria parasite genomes from patient blood samples

Researchers have developed a new technique to identify hotspots of malaria parasite evolution and track the rise of malarial drug resistance, faster and more efficiently than ever before.

Medical research created Jun 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Immune system 'circuitry' that kills malaria in mosquitoes identified

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute have, for the first time, determined the function of a series proteins within the mosquito that transduce a signal that enables the mosquito to fight off infection ...

Medical research created Jun 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New combination malaria treatment equally effective

(HealthDay) -- Fixed-dose, combination pyronaridine-artesunate treatment is as effective as mefloquine plus artesunate in treating malaria infection, according to a study published in the April 5 issue of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Malaria immunity in the spotlight

(Medical Xpress) -- Mothers who are treated for malaria may pass on lower levels of natural immunity to their young, animal studies show.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0