Malaria News

More recent studies suggest that halofuginone, a compound derived from this extract's bioactive ingredient, could be used to treat many autoimmune disorders as well.

Israeli scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed genetically altered tobacco plants which contain a natural compound that can fight drug- resistant malaria.

According to the "Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010 report," published in the British medical journal Lancet, malaria accounted for 1.24 million deaths including 714,000 children younger than five and 524,000 individuals aged five or older in 2010.

European Union Development Commissioner Andris Piedalgs arrived here Sunday on a three-day visit to monitor latest developmental works in the country.

In Katherine Boo's new book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers , she follows a 19-year-old trash scavenger through a Mumbai slum.

Posted in: Reports Written By: Ahmed al-Hasani For Yemen Observer Article Date: Feb 11, 2012 - 7:15:19 PM The trip from the enchanting Green Capital of Yemen, Ibb, will not take you long since Odain city lies only 30 kilometers away.

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TIME MAREEBA DOCTOR has sold her general practice to fulfil a lifelong dream to volunteer her medical expertise in isolated and impoverished regions of Papua New Guinea.

Why do people hoard pets? Psychologists have explained the phenomenon as arising from early childhood experiences.

Scientists can spend years working on problems that at first may seem esoteric and rather pointless.

Via allAfrica.com, a report from the Guardian Global Development Network: Africa: Highest-Ever Levels of Multi-Drug-Resistant TB Revealed .

The first known fossil of a rare bloodsucker called the bat fly has been found in 20-million-year-old amber.

BANGKOK, 10 February 2012 - Lack of access to reproductive health services in Myanmar has led to high rates of maternal deaths and unplanned pregnancies among the country's displaced, migrant and refugee populations, say health experts.

Manufacturing in the United States is in trouble. That's bad news not just for the country's economy but for the future of innovation.

A dispute has arisen between the WHO and the authors of a study claiming that malaria kills twice as many people as previously estimated, partly due to the under-reporting of malaria deaths in adults.

Kenya Medical Research Institute said Tuesday it is doing research on a new tuberculosis drug that will reduce treatment period for those infected and should be on the market within a year.

January 30, 2012 - A recent report by the World Health Organization showed that a third fewer people in Africa are dying of malaria than in 2000 thanks to global campaigns like the Lutheran Malaria Initiative .

"It is deeply worrisome that inadvertently, the millions of people fighting with deadly diseases are in danger of paying the price for the global financial crisis." -- Michel Kazatchkine, executive director, The Global Fund In 2010, 1.8 million people died from AIDS, 1.4 million from tuberculosis and 655,000 from malaria.

In one of the oddest articles I've seen in a mainstream magazine in a long time, Kathleen McAuliffe writes in the new issue of The Atlantic about a Czech scientist named Jaroslav Flegr with a very serious theory about the potentially devastating effects of a parasite, Toxoplasma gondii , found in the feces of ordinary house cats.

A study of almost 3,800 pregnancies has provided the most accurate and direct evidence to date that malaria infection reduces early foetal growth.