Indian-origin scientist finds way to treat deadly malaria
http://www.dnaindia.com/health/report-indian-origin-scientist-finds-way-to-treat-deadly-malaria-1948476
A common but dangerous strain of malaria that hides in the liver, re-emerging years later to trigger new infections and is harder to prevent, diagnose and treat, can soon be treated. According to Niraj Tolia, assistant professor of molecular ...
British biotech startup turns to crowdfunding to help eliminate malaria
http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/10/british-biotech-startup-turns-to-crowdfunding-to-help-eliminate-malaria/
With a small team of researchers, O'Halloran has spent several years building a device that health care workers can use to rapidly analyze a blood sample and provide a malaria diagnosis and screening for drug resistance in approximately 15 minutes.
District health authorities wake up to malaria deaths of children
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/District-health-authorities-wake-up-to-malaria-deaths-of-children/articleshow/28691003.cms
MANGALORE: District health and family welfare Dr H S Shivakumar and district malaria officer Dr Arun Kumar on Friday visited the house of Taniyappa Mugera in Shishila of Belthangady taluk that saw two children succumb to malaria. While Harinakshi, 10 ...
Doctors: siblings were anaemic, couldn't resist malarial attack
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/doctors-siblings-were-anaemic-couldnt-resist-malarial-attack/article5565823.ece
The deaths due to malaria of two siblings, both minors, was ?a freak incident?, said a two-doctor team from Directorate of Health and Family Welfare, Bangalore, in the city on Thursday. The children were anaemic and could not resist the malarial attack.
Lasers Could Be Used to Hear Malaria Through the Skin
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/lasers-can-be-used-to-hear-malaria-through-the-skin
Last year we got some good news in the fight against malaria: The number of infections dropped as did the mortality rate for those who are infected, and there was (once again) a promising vaccine developed. But the fight is far from over?there were ...
Malaria Significantly Reduced in Gambia - New WHO Rep
http://allafrica.com/stories/201401101364.html
The new country representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has given a global analysis of the prevalence rate of malaria, indicating that in The Gambia, "the burden has significantly gone down in the past few years." But even so, he ...
Researchers bypass blood work, favoring lasers to detect malaria
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57616805-76/researchers-bypass-blood-work-favoring-lasers-to-detect-malaria/
Researchers bypass blood work, favoring lasers to detect malaria. Using the same tech a destroyer uses to detect a submarine, a new diagnostic tool listens for the sound of popping vapor nanobubbles -- a telltale sign that malaria parasites are dining.
A New Test for Malaria, No Blood Required
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/science/a-new-test-for-malaria-no-blood-required.html
Rice University researchers have developed a rapid malaria test that uses a laser pulse, eliminating the need to draw blood. The test has not yet been tried on humans with the disease, but in experiments with blood samples and mice, it detected malaria ...
