Tag: malaria
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Maternal education fights malaria better than vaccine
Researchers have found that maternal education could be a more potent weapon against childhood malaria than biomedical vaccine. Malaria is a treatable disease that each year affects approximately 200 million people globally. The young are particularly vulnerable to the disease with nearly 70 per cent of all deaths occurring in children under the age of …
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May 10, 2017 -
Drug-resistant malaria cures by plant therapy: study
In a first, a malaria therapy made only from the dried leaves of an Asian plant has successfully cured 18 critically ill patients who did not respond to standard treatments, scientists say. The findings suggest that the not-yet-approved treatment may help fight the growing problem of drug-resistant malaria. The attending physician in clinic in the …
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April 28, 2017 -
Drug-resistant malaria cured by dried leaf tablets
Tablets made from dried leaves of the Artemisia annua plant have cured 18 critically ill patients who were not responding to the standard malaria medications in a Congo clinic, says a study. The results, published in the journal Phytomedicine, suggest a new and inexpensive treatment option for the mosquito-borne disease that affects 212 million people …
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April 26, 2017 -
Rishi Kapoor, Nandita Das hope diseases like malaria end soon
Actors Rishi Kapoor and Nandita Das want diseases like malaria to end in India as it is responsible for taking a number of lives especially in rural India. "Thousands of pregnant women lose their lives to malaria in rural India. India must do more to save these precious lives and end malaria," Nandita tweeted on …
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April 25, 2017 -
WHO comes out with new policy guidance on malaria elimination
World Health Organisation has for the first time in ten years launched a new policy guidance on malaria elimination, which provides countries with strategies aimed at achieving elimination of the disease. Malaria is a public health problem in several parts of of the country with over 10 lakh malaria cases being registered last year. The 2017 framework …
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April 5, 2017 -
Scientific breakthrough to aid malaria vaccine research
Australian scientists have discovered a "key molecule", which can kill microbes that infect the human liver, which experts believe, could be a breakhrough in malaria aid research and take the fight against the disease a step closer. Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) announced the breakthrough after they tracked cells and discovered a molecule …
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March 20, 2017 -
Malaria superbug spreads in Asia
A lineage of multidrug resistant P. falciparum malaria superbugs has widely spread and is now established in parts of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, a study has warned. Noting that the further spread of these multidrug resistant parasites through India to sub-Saharan Africa would be a global public health disaster, the authors of the study called …
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February 2, 2017 -
Steering them away from targets
This unexpected bias of mosquitoes, which has been recently discovered, is one of the factors that have been considered in developing a mathematical formula of how an outbreak of malaria may progress. Xiunan Wang and Xiao-Qiang Zhao, of the department of mathematics and statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, Canada, published their study of …
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January 31, 2017 -
Exercise, diet could offset effects of malaria
Regular exercise and a healthy diet consisting of fruits, vegetables and the right amount of protein may help lessen damage to the heart and skeletal muscles brought on by malaria, a new study has claimed. Each year, malaria afflicts over 500 million people in scores of countries around the world, killing more than 400,000, according …
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January 14, 2017 -
Exercise, diet could offset effects of malaria
Regular exercise and a healthy diet consisting of fruits, vegetables and the right amount of protein may help lessen damage to the heart and skeletal muscles brought on by malaria, a new study has claimed. Each year, malaria afflicts over 500 million people in scores of countries around the world, killing more than 400,000, according …
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January 14, 2017 -
Going back to the basics
An impediment in the treatment of many diseases is that the resources for detecting and identifying the concerned pathogen are not available. Even when there are microscopes and trained personnel, the equipment for preparing the blood sample is often absent. This is particularly true of malaria, which affects hundred million people and claims well over …
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January 11, 2017 -
Anaemia may protect against malaria
Parents, take note! Anaemia may protect your children against blood-stage malaria infection, according to a new study which claims that iron supplements removes this protective effect. Iron deficiency is the most common nutritional deficiency in the world and causes long-term adverse consequences in children. However, concerns remain about the safety of iron supplements, particularly for …
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January 7, 2017