Malaria Newswire (Page 10)
Comprehensive Real-Time News Feed for Malaria. (Page 10)
Results 181 - 200 of 44,008 in Malaria
-
New weapon in malaria battle: mosquitoes resistant to disease
Malaria, still a virulent problem in Southeast Asia and much of Africa, poses a threat to the populations there and abroad. Comment?
-
Top Stories: Debunking Aliens, Old Hearts Made Young, and Attempts to Kill an NSF Bill
w/Photo
... its potential use in humans. Scientists are turning the tables on mosquitoes in an effort to stop the spread of malaria. They've infected them with a strange bacterium that messes with the bugs' sex lives, preventing them from spreading the disease. ... Comment?
-
The (im)morality of conspicuous consumption
... ignorant, or just plain selfish. If I were not ignorant, I would know that children are dying from diarrhea or malaria, because they lack safe drinking water, or mosquito nets, and obviously what I have spent on this watch or handbag would have been ... Comment?
-
Island Wild: Pancake flowers and popcorn seeds
w/Photo
... fevers, stomach and intestinal ailments, and early settlers boiled the tannin-rich bark to use like quinine to cure malaria. Three different members of the Cornaceae (dogwood) family grow in the Pacific Northwest; all have characteristic "dogwood ... Comment?
-
Bacteria Interferes with Malaria Transmission
Mosquitoes are deadly efficient disease transmitters. Research conducted at Michigan State Universit y, however, demonstrates that they also can be equally adept in curing diseases such as malaria. Comment?
-
Africa's Pharmaceutical Industry Faces Numerous Challenges
w/Photo
... jobs and bring more technology to the continent. Africa suffers frequent bouts of many preventable diseases, such as malaria and tuberculosis. But the medicines to treat these diseases are imported from outside the continent. And the cost of those ... Comment?
-
Fight Against Malaria Takes Odd New Turn
w/Photo
A new study has found a possible way to stop at least one species of mosquito from giving you malaria by infecting them with a special strain of bacteria. Comment?
-
... Colin, a Benedictine monk and the first superior of the Kristo Buase monastery, in Techiman, Ghana, died from malaria. With his brother Robin, David made the painful trip to Ghana for the funeral. He later established a school in his brother's name. ... Comment?
-
Why is Africa's healthcare so far behind the rest of the world?
w/Photo
... healthcare in the fight against the main diseases that cause child mortality, namely measles, pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, and AIDS. Targeted interventions for newborn babies need to be accelerated, as newborns are more likely to succumb than ... Comment?
-
New bacteria can make mosquitoes resistant to malaria parasite
London, May 10 : Researchers from the Michigan State University in the US have found that a strain of bacteria called Wolbachia bacterium can infect mosquitoes and make them resistant to the malaria parasite. Comment?
-
Reading health articles may make you feel ill, and 7 more stories to watch
... Mail reports . Researchers have found a strain of bacteria that can infect mosquitoes and make them resistant to the malaria parasite. The study, published in the journal Science , showed the parasite struggled to survive in infected mosquitoes. ... Comment?
-
Web tool tracks insecticide-resistant malaria mosquitoes
w/Photo
The free interactive website identifies places in more than 50 malaria-endemic countries where mosquitoes have become resistant to the insecticides used in bed nets and indoor sprays. Comment?
-
Canada gives US$10 million to health innovations
w/Photo
... the Middle East and North Africa, and South and Central America, and address a range of diseases including HIV/AIDS, malaria and typhoid. In Bangladesh, for example, researchers are designing a programme to make street food safer for consumers by ... Comment?
-
Bacteria-infected mosquitoes may halt malaria
w/Photo
Scientists have infected mosquitoes with a bacteria known as Wolbachia, which sabotages malaria-causing parasites in the bugs, limiting their ability to spread malaria to humans, Science News reported. Comment?
-
Mbaraga strikes twice to send AS Kigali into last four
Striker Jimmy Mbaraga struck twice as AS Kigali beat Musanze 3-1 to book a place in the semi finals of the Peace Cup against malaria competition on Tuesday at Kicukiro turf. Comment?
-
New test determines which children with malaria are likely to develop cerebral malaria
Researchers at Michigan State University have identified a test that can determine which children with malaria are likely to develop cerebral malaria, a much more life-threatening form of the disease. Comment?
-
Top 10: ISS Leak, Earth Timelapse
... their own-with a strange bacterium that tinkers with the insects' sex lives-may prevent mosquitoes from transmitting malaria." Science "Chemical analysis of lunar rocks suggests that Earth was born wet, and it held on to its water long enough to ... Comment?
-
UN shifts from traditional model
w/Photo
... or risk losing their funding. The World Health Organization, for example, gets lots of restricted funding to fight malaria and AIDS, but those aren't the only public-health crises facing the world. Restricted funding only makes agencies accountable ... Comment?
-
Bacteria being used to fight malaria
Washington, May 10 : Research conducted at Michigan State University demonstrated that mosquitoes could be equally adept in curing diseases such as malaria. Comment?
-
5K walk aids women across globe
... or someone they know. Among women ages 15 to 44, acts of violence cause more death and disability than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents and war combined. Piedmont Park is at 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue in midtown Atlanta. For more information ... Comment?
Malaria Forum
Most Popular
- Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan wants to rebuild Detroit; he'll meet City C... - 91 comments
- 1 dead after crash on LaSalle St. in Cape Girardeau - 47 comments
- Philippine President Apologizes for Taiwanese Fisherman Death - 86 comments
- Scientists agree on climate change. So why doesn't everyone else? - 33 comments
- Outgoing IRS chief deflects Republican attempts to link scandal to White House - 41 comments
- Heydar Aliyev preferred Armenian cognac - 76 comments
- Turkey and the Dream of Ottoman Revival - 29 comments
- Meat-slicing facility laying off 100 workers - 24 comments
- Woman, 37, 'stabbed boyfriend after he farted in her face during argument' - 27 comments
- George Will: IRS scandal carries echoes of Watergate - 51 comments
Copyright ©2013 Topix LLC
