Dengue-malaria combo new scare, city hospitals report rise in cases
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/denguemalaria-combo-new-scare-city-hospitals-report-rise-in-cases/1178041/
With the Delhi government and municipal corporations struggling to contain the dengue outbreak, hospitals have begun reporting cases of patients being diagnosed with both dengue and malaria at the same time. Dr Atul Gogia, consultant in medicine at Sir ...
Positive Signs for Malaria Vaccine
http://allafrica.com/stories/201310040986.html
A malaria vaccine based on genetically modified parasites is worth developing further, according to the first study to test the new approach in humans. Six volunteers were exposed to the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, rendered harmless by ...
Malaria research receives NIH grant
http://unewsonline.com/2013/10/04/malaria-research-receives-nih-grant-2/
The fight against malaria has taken a new turn with the research of Marvin Meyers, Director of Chemistry at the Center for World Health and Medicine at Saint Louis University. Meyers and his research team recently identified two new classes of ...
Sabmiller Gives Pregnant Women Lessons On Malaria
http://allafrica.com/stories/201310040500.html
According to UNICEF, 50 per cent or more of all people who die from malaria in Zambia are children under five years of age, and 50 per cent of all under-five hospital admissions are due to malaria. Malaria also accounts for 20 per cent of maternal deaths.
Croydon has third highest cases of Malaria in London
http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/news/localnews/10718987.Croydon_has_third_highest_cases_of_Malaria_in_London/
Croydon residents have been warned of the dangers of Malaria after the borough had the third largest number of cases in London. Health chiefs said there was a misconception that people born in West Africa have immunity to the disease, but after moving ...
'Gambia's Malaria Incidences Drop to 81 Percent'
http://allafrica.com/stories/201310041625.html
The minister of Transport, Works and Infrastructure, and National Assembly Matters, has disclosed that malaria incidences in The Gambia have been reduced to 81% with admissions to hospitals also dropping to 71%. Speaking Monday at the National ...
'Get malaria, dengue data from private hospitals'
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/navi-mumbai/Get-malaria-dengue-data-from-private-hospitals/articleshow/23481507.cms
NAVI MUMBAI: Following reports that cases of private hospitals are not reflecting in the number of malaria and dengue cases reported by the NMMC, state health minister Suresh Shetty will soon be sending a letter to the authorities to collect the number ...
United Methodist Church aims to end malaria
http://www.newspressnow.com/life/religion/article_df70c892-8bef-529d-99cf-f7b9567efef6.html
That amounts to millions of lives lost each year. But the United Methodist Church hopes to reduce that number to zero. With several other partners, the denomination has launched Imagine No Malaria, an effort to put faith into action to end preventable ...
