Malaria eradication Cure all?
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21594956-novel-approach-using-drugs-instead-insecticides-may-make-it-easier
WHAT if it were possible to get rid of malaria? Not just bring it under control, but wipe it from the face of the Earth, saving 660,000 lives a year, stopping hitherto endless suffering, and abolishing a barrier to economic development reckoned by the ...
S. Africa defuses malaria scare in Johannesburg
http://english.eastday.com/e/140125/u1a7908342.html
JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 24 -- South Africa on Friday defused rumors that there was a malaria outbreak in Johannesburg. "There is currently no outbreak of malaria in Lenasia, Eldorado Park and Ennerdale as has been rumored," the National Institute of ...
Film showing part of CLU malaria effort
http://www.callutheran.edu/news/news_detail.php?story_id=10274
The student-run CLU Malaria Committee is trying to raise $15,000 by June to support the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America initiative to collect $15 million by end of the year. So far, the committee has raised almost $13,000 by collecting donations ...
Modernizing malaria research through a new, interdisciplinary approach
http://news.psu.edu/story/301202/2014/01/22/research/modernizing-malaria-research-through-new-interdisciplinary-approach
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 3.4 billion people in 97 countries live in areas at risk of malaria transmission. In 2012, according to WHO estimates, there were 207 million cases of malaria worldwide resulting in 627,000 ...
How The Immune System Fights Off Malaria
http://www.asianscientist.com/in-the-lab/immune-system-fights-malaria-2014/
The parasites that cause malaria are exquisitely adapted to the various hosts they infect ? so studying the disease in mice does not necessarily reveal information that could lead to drugs effective against human disease. Now, an international team of ...
Volunteer networks tackle malaria and malnutrition in South Sudan
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/malaria-consortium-partner-zone/malaria-and-malnutrition-in-south-sudan
Malaria Consortium's OTP, or outpatient therapeutic programme, provides screening, treatment and, where necessary, hospital referral for malnutrition in children under five at community based sites throughout the region. One site is just a 30 minute ...
Third Central team to visit malaria-stung Shishila
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/third-central-team-to-visit-malariastung-shishila/article5613027.ece
A third team of doctors from the Centre is visiting Shishila in Belthangady taluk where two children died of malaria recently, said H. S. Shivakumar, District Health Officer (DHO). The team will try to ascertain the cause of malaria, he said. The team ...
Science prodigy Jessie MacAlpine, 18, takes on malaria with mustard oil
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/01/23/science_prodigy_jessie_macalpine_18_takes_on_malaria_with_mustard_oil.html
Today, the 18-year-old is in her first year at the University of Toronto and has moved on to even loftier pursuits. Using a molecular compound she stumbled upon in high school, MacAlpine is developing a potential new drug for malaria, a parasitic ...
