News tagged with malaria treatment
New malaria protein structure upends theory of how cells grow and move
Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have overturned conventional wisdom on how cell movement across all species is controlled, solving the structure of a protein that cuts power to the cell ...
May 30, 2011 |
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Community health workers can effectively manage children with malaria and pneumonia
Anti-malarial drugs are being used inappropriately for sick children in Zambia with fevers and difficulty breathing - a problem that can be addressed by arming community health workers with a simple rapid-diagnostic test ...
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Scientists develop new drug treatment for malaria
As part of the £1.5 million project, researchers are now testing the drug to determine how the treatment could progress to clinical trials. The drug is made from simple organic molecules and will be cheaper to mass produce ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 16, 2010 |
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'Needle-free' intervention as natural vaccine against malaria
A study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine proposes that preventative treatment with affordable and safe antibiotics in people living in areas with intense malaria transmission has the potential to act ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Aug 11, 2010 |
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WHO to send swine flu vaccine to poor countries
(AP) -- The World Health Organization plans to start shipping swine flu vaccine to Azerbaijan, Afghanistan and Mongolia in the next few weeks, flu chief Keiji Fukuda said Thursday.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Navigating in the ocean of molecules
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tracking down new active agents for cancer or malaria treatment could soon become easier - thanks to a computer program with which researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology ...
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Tools for more accurate dosage of drugs against HIV/AIDS and malaria
A doctoral thesis presented at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that it is possible to describe and quantify the relationships between dose, concentration and effectiveness of several drugs ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 06, 2009 |
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How to treat fevers in African children up for debate
A new debate in the open access journal PLoS Medicine questions whether all African children with fever should be treated presumptively with antimalarial drugs, or if treatment should wait until laboratory tests confirm malari ...
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Jan 06, 2009 |
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