6.6 Million Kids Died Last Year From Pneumonia, Malaria, Diarrhea. And That's ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/13/unicef-66-million-children-died_n_3919794.html
LAGOS, Nigeria -- Childhood death rates around the world have halved since 1990 but an estimated 6.6 million children under the age of 5 still died last year, the U.N. children's agency said Friday. Nearly half of all children who die are in five ...
Fast Tests For Drug Resistance Bolster Malaria Fight
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/09/10/221085395/fast-tests-for-drug-resistance-bolster-malaria-fight
Malaria researchers have developed what they consider a crucial advance: Simple and fast tests that can tell when parasites have become resistant to the front-line drug against malaria. Taken together, these tests give humans a new tool to counter the ...
Simple, rapid test can identify patients with drug-resistant malaria
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/09/12/simple-rapid-test-can-identify-patients-with-drug-resistant-malaria/
As doctors and physicians work around the clock in Southeast Asia to treat populations plagued with highly infectious malaria, many researchers are concerned over a growing threat in the region developing among the parasites that cause the disease ...
New discovery could reduce malaria infections
http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/live-news/2013/9/new-discovery-couldreducemalariainfections.html
A recent discovery by a California lab has found a way to make humans invisible to mosquitoes. Mosquito-borne illnesses are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. Stephanie Stanton shows us this new product and it's potential global ...
Simple, rapid test created for drug-resistant malaria
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/265877.php
Scientists have developed a new way of testing whether a lethal form of malaria is resistant to potent artemisinin drugs, according to a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Researchers from Cambodia and the US have created simple in ...
Vaccines for HIV, Meningitis and Malaria Show Promise
http://www.weather.com/article/vaccine-updates-hiv-meningitis-and-malaria-cures-20130912
A new vaccine could cure simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) ? an infection found in monkeys similar to HIV ? and might eventually help scientists create a human version for HIV, according to a study from the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute at ...
UN Reports Childhood Mortality Rates Halved Since 1990
http://www.counselheal.com/articles/6702/20130913/un-reports-childhood-mortality-rates-halved-1990.htm
According to the report, the top causes of death in children under five are malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea. These three killers are responsible for about 6,000 deaths per day. The UN also reported that poor nutrition causes around 50 percent of these ...
Old Drug, New Tricks to Fight Malaria
http://allafrica.com/stories/201309121057.html
A new way of using an old drug is proving to be a breakthrough in combating seasonal malaria in West Africa, which kills tens of thousands of children every year according to Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF). The medical charity says seasonal malaria ...
