News tagged with resistant malaria
Detecting malaria early to save lives: New optical technique promises rapid and accurate diagnosis
Correctly and quickly diagnosing malaria is essential for effective and life-saving treatment. But rapid detection, particularly in remote areas, is not always possible because current methods are time-consuming ...
Apr 18, 2012 |
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WHO urges stepped up battle against drug-resistant TB
The World Health Organisation on Wednesday urged donors to stamp out multidrug-resistant tuberculosis after the number of the hard-to-treat strains of the lung disease doubled in recent years.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 23, 2011 |
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UN: Drug-resistant malaria spreading in Asia
(AP) -- The World Health Organization says countries are not doing enough to detect drug-resistant malaria, which is spreading in Southeast Asia.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 18, 2010 |
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Scientists pinpoint gene linked to drug resistance in malaria
Scientists have shed light on how malaria is able to resist treatment with a leading drug.
Oct 12, 2010 |
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Drug-resistant malaria suggests a health policy change for pregnant women and infants
Malaria remains a serious global health problem, killing more than one million people per year. Treatment of the mosquito-borne illness relies on antibiotics, and the emergence of drug-resistant malaria is of growing concern. ...
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Promising new one-dose malaria drug discovered
Researchers have discovered a promising new malaria drug with the potential to treat resistant strains of the deadly disease in a single dose, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 02, 2010 |
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Africans text message to check if drugs are real
(AP) -- For Africans wondering whether the malaria drugs they've bought are real, there may soon be a quick way of finding out: sending a text message.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Aug 20, 2010 |
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New methods, new math speed detection of drug-resistant malaria
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University developed techniques to quickly identify evolution of drug resistance in strains of malaria. Their goal is to enable the medical community to react quickly to inevitable resistance ...
Aug 02, 2010 |
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Novel anti-malarial drug candidate found
As part of a multicenter study, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a series of chemical compounds that might serve as starting points for the identification of new classes of anti-malarial drugs.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 25, 2010 |
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How the parasite responsible for severe forms of malaria can resist a major antimalarial agent
French esearchers from CNRS, INSERM and Toulouse University Hospital have demonstrated how the parasite Plasmodium falciparum, which causes severe forms of malaria, is able to circumvent the action of artemisinin ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 05, 2010 |
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Genomic warfare to counter malaria drug resistance
Scientists battling malaria have earned a major victory. According to a Nature Genetics study, an international group of researchers has used genomics to decode the blueprint of Plasmodium falciparum - a strain of malaria mo ...
Feb 16, 2010 |
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Bad malaria pills in Africa raise resistance fears
(AP) -- High rates of the most effective type of malaria-fighting drugs sold in three African countries are poor quality - including nearly half the pills sampled in Senegal - raising fears of increased drug resistance that ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 08, 2010 |
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New malaria vaccine is safe and protective in children, scientists find
A new vaccine to prevent the deadly malaria infection has shown promise to protect the most vulnerable patients — young children — against the disease, according to an international team of researchers led by the University ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 04, 2010 |
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South African doctor sees drug-resistant HIV
(AP) -- It's 8 a.m. and Dr. Theresa Rossouw is already drowning behind a cluttered desk of handwritten HIV charts - new, perplexing cases of patients whose lifesaving drugs have turned against them.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 30, 2009 |
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New form of malaria threatens Thai-Cambodia border
(AP) -- O'treng village doesn't look like the epicenter of anything. Just off a muddy rutted-out road, it is nothing more than a handful of Khmer-style bamboo huts perched crookedly on stilts, tucked among ...
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Dec 28, 2009 |
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