News tagged with elimination
New strategy to eliminate malaria
UCSF global health experts have outlined a new strategy and action plan to help countries eliminate malaria and bring the world closer to global eradication of the deadly disease.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 05, 2010 |
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Researchers use math, maps to plot malaria elimination plan
Two University of Florida researchers and their international colleagues have used mathematical models and maps to estimate the feasibility of eliminating malaria from countries that have the deadliest form of the disease.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 29, 2010 |
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Researchers break speed barrier in solving important class of linear systems
Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have devised an innovative and elegantly concise algorithm that can efficiently solve systems of linear equations that are critical to such important computer applications ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 21, 2010 |
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Parasite evades death by promoting host cell survival
Researchers have discovered how the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes Chagas' disease, prolongs its survival in infected cells. A protein on the parasite activates the enzyme Akt, which blocks cell ...
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Global health experts release new guidance on malaria elimination
Countries and policy leaders gain new guidance today on how and when to eliminate malaria, paving the way for the potential global eradication of the deadly disease. The announcement is being made on behalf of the Malaria ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 24, 2009 |
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Immune cell type controls onset and course of severe malaria
Scientists have determined that a subset of immune cells may cause malaria patients to contract the severe form of the disease, suffering worse symptoms. Led by Monash University immunologist Professor Magdalena Plebanski, ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 24, 2009 |
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