WHO Pins Hopes on Africa for Plant for Malaria Drug
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The World Health Organization has turned  to Africa -- where a child dies every 30 seconds from malaria  -- for urgently needed new stocks of a Chinese plant needed to  make a key antimalarial drug, a top official said.
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A Chinese herbal drug that is strikingly effective against malaria is in critically short supply because of rising demand.
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A genetically engineered cotton plant with lower levels of a harmful chemical in its seeds could create a rich source of protein for people in the developing world.
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A  discovery could lead to drugs to treat a 'forgotten' tropical disease, scientists hope.
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The latest scheme to spread  electric light in Africa may sound familiar, but this time  African leaders say they have the will, and financial backing,  to succeed.
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By The Oklahoman  Jun. 19--Gov. and Mrs. Brad Henry's remedy for the malaria problem in  Africa is to give the people mosquito nets. U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn's malaria fix  is a shot of Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of Seattle has given a $43 million dollars grant to aid in the development of a genetically engineered form of a Chinese herbal drug that is thought to be effective in curing malaria.
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The United States and China want to  expand trade regulations to protect Asian yew trees, a plant  that provides the compound for one of the world's top-selling  chemotherapy drugs but is threatened by poaching.
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Li Guoqiao was a village doctor in China's southwestern Yunnan province in 1974 when the government asked him to try using an herbal drug, artemisinin, to treat malaria patients.
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Researchers have taken to genetically modifying plants to produce medicine for the developing world, but not everyone is keen on the idea. Megan Lindow reports from Cape Town, South Africa.
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Former President Bill Clinton launched a program on Sunday to make subsidized malaria drugs available in Tanzania in a test scheme that could serve as a blueprint for Africa as a whole.
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A pioneering vaccine can protect a  significant proportion of African children against malaria,  scientists said on Thursday, boosting hopes that the  mosquito-borne disease may one day be conquered.
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A transport system used by the malaria parasite to infect blood cells could be a target for new treatments, scientists have said. Australian and US teams both claim that they have pinpointed the key proteins involved in the process.
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For the first time, a vaccine in a clinical trial has convincingly shielded children in Africa from contracting malaria. Researchers hope the results will pave the way for routine jabs in countries stricken
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A United Nations conference approved a  proposal by African countries Friday to control trade in a rare  plant sought hungrily by drug companies for its  appetite-suppressing properties.
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A new, low-cost drug is launched to combat malaria, aimed at children in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Coming soon to a jungle near you -- mosquitoes genetically engineered so they cannot give people malaria. But this time scientists want to do it right.