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NTU Researchers Complete The World's First In-depth Study Of The Malaria Parasite Genome
Groundbreaking research done at Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) School of Biological Sciences (SBS) could lead to the development of more potent drugs or a vaccine for malaria, which is transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes and kills up to three million people each year... ...more		 06 Feb 2010
Researcher Awarded $2 Million To Tackle Elephantiasis, River Blindness
In an effort to eliminate the tropical diseases elephantiasis and river blindness, a Michigan State University researcher has been awarded $2 million to reformulate an existing drug that could stop the debilitating diseases in their tracks... ...more		 06 Feb 2010
Breakthrough By Danish Scientists In Preventing Maternal Malaria
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have become the first in the world to synthesize the entire protein that is responsible for life-threatening malaria in pregnant women and their unborn children... ...more		 06 Feb 2010
Early Stage Trial Finds Malaria Vaccine Effectively Protected Young Children, Study Says
An experimental vaccine was found to effectively protect young children from malaria in Mali, Reuters reports. According to the news service, "The vaccine, which uses an immune system booster called an adjuvant from British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, targets the malaria parasite as it is actively infecting red blood cells and causing fever and illness" (Steenhuysen, 2/3)... ...more		 05 Feb 2010
LSTM Begins £0.5 Million Malaria Study In Burkina Faso
A new study led by LSTM will investigate whether long-term weekly iron and folic acid supplementation can reduce anaemia without increasing the risk of contracting malaria. The information provided by the study, based in Burkina Faso and running until 2014, will strengthen adolescent health services and develop effective preventative programmes for anaemia control in young women... ...more		 05 Feb 2010
Also In Global Health News: GSK's Interest In NTDs; Kenya's Male Circumcision Drive; Dengue Fever; HIV Prevention In Jamaica; Food Shortages In Zimbab
GSK Head Discusses Company Interest In NTDs The Associated Press features a Q&A with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) CEO Andrew Witty, who "is pushing to sell more products in fast-growing 'emerging markets' such as Brazil, Russia, India and China" while simultaneously "increasing efforts to bring medicines for tropical diseases to the poorest countries, at minimum profit... ...more		 04 Feb 2010
Ideal Target For Malaria Therapy Discovered By Scientists
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a protein made by the malaria parasite that is essential to its ability to take over human red blood cells. Malaria, which is spread by mosquito bites, kills between 1 million and 3 million people annually in Third World countries... ...more		 04 Feb 2010
Yale Study May Lead To Better Traps, Repellents Fo Mosquitoes
Yale University researchers have found more than two dozen scent receptors in malaria-transmitting mosquitoes that detect compounds in human sweat, a finding that may help scientists to develop new ways to combat a disease that kills 1 million people annually... ...more		 04 Feb 2010
The Identification Of Malaria's Key Survival Protein Offers Drug Hope
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have identified a key protein used by the malaria parasite to transform human red blood cells, ensuring the parasite's survival. Their discovery means researchers have a clear target against which to develop a new class of anti-malarial drugs that destroy the parasite... ...more		 04 Feb 2010
Billion Dollar Market For Malaria Vaccine Products Should Interest Drug Developers
With increased attention on finding a cure for the scourge of malaria, recently highlighted by the announcement of a large research and development grant from the Bill Gates Foundation, and with several candidates already in the pipeline, there could be a $1 billion market for malaria vaccine products by 2017, according to healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Informati... ...more		 04 Feb 2010
Obama's FY 2011 Budget Gives Global Health Funding Boost
President Barack Obama's FY 2011 budget request for global health totals $9.6 billion and includes funding for global health activities within the State Department, USAID and HHS, the Wall Street Journal reports. "That compares with $8.8 billion enacted for fiscal 2010," according to the newspaper (McKay, 2/1)... ...more		 03 Feb 2010
Also In Global Health News: Food Needs In Sudan; Malaria Vaccine; Agriculture In India; Generic Drugs
Drought, Conflict More Than Triple Food Needs In S. Sudan "The number of people in Southern Sudan needing food aid has quadrupled to about 4.3 million this year from a year ago because of violence and drought, the United Nations World Food Programme said" Tuesday, Bloomberg reports (Maier, 2/2). The agency, which is facing a funding shortfall of $485... ...more		 03 Feb 2010
African Leaders Discuss Ways To Achieve Universal Malaria Control Measures Deadline
The challenges associated with protecting the people of Africa from malaria took center stage Monday during the second day of the African Union (AU) Summit, the New Times/allAfrica.com reports (2/2)... ...more		 03 Feb 2010
Cell-Culture And Animal Tests Show Antiviral Could Provide Protection Against HIV, Ebola, Hepatitis C, Herpes And More
The development of antibiotics gave physicians seemingly miraculous weapons against infectious disease. Effective cures for terrible afflictions like pneumonia, syphilis and tuberculosis were suddenly at hand. Moreover, many of the drugs that made them possible were versatile enough to knock out a wide range of deadly bacterial threats... ...more		 03 Feb 2010
Virus Pulls Bait And Switch On Insect Vectors
A common plant virus lures aphids to infected plants by making the plants more attractive, but when the insects taste the plant, they quickly leave for tastier, healthier ones. In the process, the insects rapidly transmit the disease, according to Penn State entomologists... ...more		 03 Feb 2010
More Details On Obama's Global Health Strategy Expected Along With Budget Release, Wall Street Journal Reports
"The Obama administration is expected to propose in its fiscal 2011 budget Monday new funding to combat preventable and tropical diseases, malnutrition and other conditions afflicting the world's poor, as part of a strategy to broaden its approach to global health," the Wall Street Journal reports... ...more		 02 Feb 2010
Immune Protein Fends Off Exotic Virus
A study published online on February 1 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine shows that antiviral proteins called type I interferons (IFNs) are needed to fend off infection with an exotic mosquito-borne virus called Chikungunya virus... ...more		 02 Feb 2010
U.N. Secretary-General Focuses On MDGs During African Union Summit
Addressing the 14th African Union (AU) Summit on Sunday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for African countries to maintain their commitment to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), "which include reducing poverty, disease and child mortality, ahead of their target date of 2015," BBC reports (1/31)... ...more		 02 Feb 2010
At World Economic Forum, Gates Foundation Announces 10-Year, $10B Vaccine Commitment
Bill and Melinda Gates announced Friday during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that their foundation would commit $10 billion over the next decade to research, develop and deliver vaccines for the world's poorest countries, the New York Times reports (McNeil, 1/29)... ...more		 01 Feb 2010
Enzyme That May Prove An Effective Target For Future Anti-Malarial Drugs Found By Researchers
In collaboration with a multinational team, Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) scientists, Associate Professor Don Gardiner, Dr Katharine Trenholme, and team, have identified a new way to kill the parasites that cause malaria - a disease that kills over 1 million people every year... ...more		 31 Jan 2010
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