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American Family Physician
August 1, 2003 |
Preventing Malaria When You Travel What is malaria? Who gets it?... How is malaria transmitted?... Who is at risk for malaria?... How can I tell if I have malaria?... Can I do anything to keep from getting malaria?... What should I do if I think I have malaria?... etc.   |
Chemistry World
April 2008
Victoria Gill |
Malaria no More? A fresh round of research funding could put an end to the killer disease. |
American Family Physician
August 1, 2003
Lo Re & Gluckman |
Prevention of Malaria in Travelers As travel to tropical locations increases, U.S. physicians are being asked more frequently to provide recommendations for malaria prevention. An organized approach to reducing the risk of acquiring this disease is necessary. |
Chemistry World
July 29, 2015
Maria Burke |
Malaria vaccine approval first marred by efficacy question mark After decades of research, a malaria vaccine has finally been given the green light by a regulatory agency. But with limited efficacy and questions over the vaccine's cost, its future remains unclear. |
Scientific American
September 2007
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Ending Malaria Deaths in Africa One of the world's worst killers can be stopped soon if we make the investment. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010
Robert Koenig |
Collaborating Across an Ocean to Stop Malaria Two scholars, one from Mali and one from the United States team up to produce a vaccine for malaria. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2011
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Warming Malaria Climate change is expanding the disease-causing pathogen's comfort zone. |
Geotimes
May 2005
Jeffrey Shaman |
Malaria Mapping and Prevention Today, scientists from various fields, including the geosciences, are contributing to the fight against malaria and other infectious diseases. |
Chemistry World
December 15, 2011 |
Eastern promise Yongyuth Yuthavong discusses the challenges that face scientists in Thailand with Kathleen Too. |
Chemistry World
June 17, 2015
James Urquhart |
Promising compound offers single dose knock-out for malaria Ian Gilbert and colleagues, working with the Medicines for Malaria Venture, have found a compound dubbed DDD107498 which kills Plasmodium falciparum -- the species responsible for most dangerous form of malaria. |
Salon.com
December 15, 2000
Arthur Allen |
Warming to malaria With fears mounting that global climate change may cause the dreaded disease to spread, scientists turn their attention to vaccine research... |
Chemistry World
August 18, 2006
Bea Perks |
Resistance is Futile Resistance to malaria drugs poses a serious problem in countries where the disease is endemic. But researchers have now reported the synthesis of a hybrid molecule that combines chloroquine with a molecule that reverses resistance. |
Chemistry World
May 13, 2013
Harriet Brewerton |
Early malaria diagnosis Now, Nicholas Smith and colleagues at Osaka University have shown that Raman spectroscopy can detect changes in heme and hemozoin in plasma samples to identify malarial infection. |
Chemistry World
February 9, 2012
Harriet Brewerton |
Pressurizing red blood cells for information Scientists in Canada have developed a method to study the changes in red blood cells caused by the most common malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. |
Chemistry World
April 25, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
Malaria Drug Cures Mice with Single Dose U.S. chemists have adapted a Chinese herbal medicine to create a new generation of antimalarial drugs which could solve some of the current crop's failings. |
Chemistry World
September 2010 |
Repulsive chemistry Simon Hadlington discovers why some people get bitten by more insects than others, and how new chemical deterrents are helping fight them off |
Chemistry World
February 24, 2011
Laura Howes |
Seaweed recruited in fight against malaria Compounds found in seaweed have shown anti-malarial properties, killing even drug-resistant malaria parasites. |
Scientific American
October 2007
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Ending Malaria Deaths in Africa One of the world s worst killers can be stopped soon if we make the investment. |
AskMen.com
Dustin Driver |
Most Contagious Diseases Super-contagious diseases spread like wildfire. The best way to battle any of these nasty bugs is to avoid them altogether. Keep your eyes open for these most-unwanted diseases, and stay healthy. |
Chemistry World
July 3, 2006
Mark Peplow |
Drug Screen Reveals Antimalarial Agent A widely-available antihistamine called astemizole could help in the battle against malaria, according to a survey of more than 2,600 drugs in a pharmaceutical library. |
Chemistry World
May 27, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
Computer brain unearths better insect repellents Mosquitoes seeking to gorge on human blood could soon be faced with a new range of chemicals designed to put them off, thanks to new research. |
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Drug-Resistant Swine Flu Surfaces Health officials have confirmed a case of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, the leading pharmaceutical weapon against the new virus. |
Chemistry World
May 3, 2011
Michael Gross |
New hope for malaria drugs as sickle cell protection unravelled Researchers have come up with a molecular mechanism that explains how it protects people from this deadly disease. |
Chemistry World
May 3, 2012
Akshat Rathi |
Ranbaxy launches new anti-malarial Synriam It is the first recently developed antimalarial that is not based on artemisinin, one of the most effective treatments for malaria, which has begun to suffer from problems with resistance in recent years. |
AskMen.com
Dustin Driver |
Travel Diseases: Africa The allure of a safari through the Serengeti or a trek up Kilimanjaro may inspire you to strike out for the heart of Africa, but before you go there are a few things you should know: like, the huge continent is teeming with bug-borne, water-borne and human-borne diseases. |
Chemistry World
June 30, 2014
James Urquhart |
Smell of malaria attracts mosquitoes The word 'malaria' means 'bad air', but new research suggests the disease may actually make its victims smell good to mosquitoes. |
Chemistry World
September 10, 2007
Lewis Brindley |
Taking the Sting Out of Malaria Scientists have identified sugar chains lining the mosquito's gut that the malaria parasite latches onto to infect the insect. |
Reactive Reports
David Bradley |
Chemical Mask Deters Mosquitoes If you are one of those people who suffer from insect bites when others seem to swat them away without a care, you can no longer claim that it is the sweeter-smell of your blood. You may lack a chemical, or blend of chemicals, instead. |
AskMen.com
Dustin Driver |
Travel Diseases: Central & South America There are more than a few diseases that can turn your dream vacation to Central or South America into a nightmare -- so here are a few "ounces of prevention." |
Chemistry World
September 10, 2013
Emma Stoye |
Mosquito repellents from skin secretions Those plagued by mosquitoes may one day be able to ditch the DEET in favour of substances naturally produced by skin, according to researchers at the US Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service. |
Outside
September 2006
Jennifer Kahn |
Itchy For more than 100 years, a swat team of brilliant scientists, pest-control shock troops, and eggheads with bizarre schemes have been waging a global war against mosquitoes. Why are the pests still winning? |
Chemistry World
March 21, 2013
Phillip Broadwith |
New antimalarial drug class resists resistance Early indications also show that it may take longer for the parasite to develop resistance to the new molecules than it has for existing drugs targeting the same pathway. |
Chemistry World
August 22, 2014
Tim Wogan |
Yeast turned into morphine and opioid biofactories Genetically modified yeast can synthesize morphine and semisynthetic opioid pharmaceuticals, researchers in the US have shown. |
Chemistry World
April 9, 2009
Phillip Broadwith |
Dual-action malaria drug reverses resistance US chemists have designed a new class of antimalarial drug that can reverse the malaria parasite's resistance to existing drugs. |
BusinessWeek
May 13, 2010
Simeon Bennett |
Mobile Phones Fight Africa's Drug Wars New systems that let users dial up to verify antimalarial and other drugs' authenticity could be a major defense against counterfeit meds. |
Salon.com
August 20, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
Blood lust The coauthor of a new book on mosquitoes talks about who they bite, where they lurk and how they've killed over a billion human beings... |
Chemistry World
June 23, 2015
Ida Emilie Steinmark |
Fruity alternative to toxic insecticides A compound found in fruit could be the safe insect repellent of the future, according to a group of scientists from the University of California, Riverside in the US. |
Chemistry World
April 23, 2015
Tim Wogan |
SiRNA treatment cures Ebola in monkeys The first laboratory trial demonstrating the effectiveness of an experimental drug against the strain of Ebola currently ravaging West Africa has been performed in rhesus monkeys. |
Chemistry World
April 10, 2013
Hayley Birch |
Yeast to make malaria drug on demand A natural biochemical pathway that produces the antimalarial drug artemisinin in the sweet wormwood plant has been fully reconstructed in yeast. |
Chemistry World
October 5, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Antiparasitic drugs derived from natural products take 2015 medicine Nobel The 2015 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has been split between three researchers for unearthing two naturally-occurring antimicrobial products that can fight parasitic diseases such as malaria and river blindness. |
American Family Physician
October 1, 2003
Lo Re & Gluckman |
Fever in the Returned Traveler With the rising popularity of international travel to exotic locations, family physicians are encountering more febrile patients who recently have visited tropical countries. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2010
Kendall Powell |
Malaria's Weakness With different approaches, two HHMI researchers land on an enzyme critical to the malaria parasite's destructive ways. |
Chemistry World
April 25, 2008
James Mitchell Crow |
Drug Costs Cut on World Malaria Day Swiss pharmaceuticals firm Novartis has announced it will reduce by one fifth the price it charges governments and NGOs for artemisinin-based antimalarial Coartem. |
