Importance of Active Case Detection in a Malaria Elimination
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/829299
Background: With the aim of eliminating malaria from Sri Lanka by 2014, the Anti-Malaria Campaign of Sri Lanka (AMC) sought the support of Tropical and Environmental Disease and Health Associates Private Limited (TEDHA), a private sector organization.
Ebola outbreak: Deaths from malaria and other diseases could soar while ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/ebola-outbreak-deaths-from-malaria-and-other-diseases-could-soar-while-africas-overstretched-healthcare-systems-fight-the-virus-expert-warns-9667362.html
The ?collapse? of healthcare systems in West Africa because of the Ebola outbreak could lead to thousands more people dying from malaria and other diseases, a leading expert has said, with the additional death toll from malaria and other diseases ...
Computation and collaboration lead to significant advance in malaria
https://www.bcm.edu/news/molecular-and-human-genetics/computation-collaboration-advance-malaria
Researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new computational method to study the function of disease-causing genes, starting with an important new discovery about a gene associated with malaria ? one of the biggest global health ...
At least it wasn't Ebola! New York man quarantined after he was suspected of ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2723989/At-wasn-t-Ebola-New-York-man-quarantined-suspected-having-disease-probably-just-malaria.html
He was kept in an isolated glass box for more than 72 hours, as Americans all over the country feared the disease had spread to their shores, but an infectious disease doctor has now told him that all the evidence suggests he has malaria - a disease he ...
Ghana records over 11 million cases of OPD malaria in 2013
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=321262
It said there is the need to improve the collaboration with National Health Insurance Authority to better inform pricing and enable reimbursement for malaria case management and to strengthen the capacity for case management and supportive supervision.
Drug-Defying Malaria Cases Found in Southeast Asia
http://www.newsweek.com/drug-defying-malaria-parasites-found-southeast-asia-262208
It seems straight out of The X-Files, but the news is terrifyingly real: Drug-resistant malaria-carrying parasites have been found in Cambodia-Thailand border regions, according to a study published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.
A Key Malaria Drug Becomes Less Effective
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/health/a-key-malaria-drug-becomes-less-effective.html
The parasite that causes the most deadly form of malaria is becoming more resistant to the most effective drug used to treat it, scientists in Southeast Asia are reporting. Their study, in The New England Journal of Medicine, adds urgency to the effort ...
Blood test identifies people with resistant malaria
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329822.900-blood-test-identifies-people-with-resistant-malaria.html
OUR old foe malaria is becoming resistant to artemisinin ? the world's most potent antimalarial drug. But it may not be too late to turn the tide. A large study has scoped out the extent of resistance in South-East Asia and shown that a blood test can ...
