Glaxo Files Its Entry in Race for a Malaria Vaccine
http://online.wsj.com/articles/glaxo-files-its-entry-in-race-for-a-malaria-vaccine-1406218538
That would make RTS,S the world's first vaccine against malaria or any parasitic disease. In clinical trials, RTS,S almost halved malaria cases in children aged 5 months to 17 months, and by around a quarter in young babies. Malaria kills an estimated ...
Accountants take plunge to raise funds for the Against Malaria Foundation
http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2014/07/26/Accountants-take-plunge-to-raise-funds-for-the-Against-Malaria-Foundation/stories/201407250180
The group of 30 PwC Pittsburgh employees ? 27 swimmers, plus three tagging along in kayaks ? paddled between the Roberto Clemente and Andy Warhol bridges and back in an annual show of support for the Against Malaria Foundation, an organization ...
GSK Seeks EU Approval for Malaria Vaccine
http://allafrica.com/stories/201407251285.html
These trials showed that RTS,S protects African infants and young children against malaria. The trials found that it almost halved the number of malaria cases in young children (aged 5-17 months at first vaccination) and reduced by around a quarter ...
Malaria infection during pregnancy leads to low birth weight - Study
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/health/artikel.php?ID=318519
The study estimate that, without pregnancy-specific protection, 12?4 million pregnant women (44?9 per cent of all 27?6 million live births in malaria endemic areas in Africa in 2010) would have been exposed to infection, with 11?4 million having ...
Genomics Reveals Mechanism for Malaria Drug Resistance
http://www.dddmag.com/news/2014/07/genomics-reveals-mechanism-malaria-drug-resistance
The research team also defined the crystal structure of the PfHAD1 protein, above. When Researchers have uncovered a way the malaria parasite becomes resistant to an investigational drug. The discovery, at Washington University School of Medicine in St.
Revealed! How the malarial parasite evades drugs
http://www.thehealthsite.com/news/revealed-how-the-malarial-parasite-evades-drugs/
Malaria A study has revealed the answer to how malaria parasite becomes resistance to the antimalarial drug in clinical trials, which makes the drugs less effective. Audrey R. Odom, senior author of the study by Washington University School of Medicine ...
A Call to Fight Malaria One Mosquito at a Time by Altering DNA
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/17/science/a-call-to-fight-malaria-one-mosquito-at-a-time-by-altering-dna.html
Every year, malaria-carrying mosquitoes kill more than 600,000 people, most of them children. Over the centuries, people have battled those mosquitoes in numerous ways, like draining swamps, spraying insecticides and distributing millions of bed nets.
Malaria is the leading killer in Central African Republic: aid group
http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN0FU0HG20140725
By Mirjam Donath. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - As a recent ceasefire deal boosts prospects for peace in Central African Republic, a key medical aid group warned on Thursday that malaria was the leading killer in the impoverished landlocked country.
