Nets and New Drug Make Inroads Against Malaria
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Widespread distribution of mosquito nets and a new medicine sharply reduced malaria deaths in several African countries, World Health Organization researchers reported.
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Scientists have taken an important step towards developing an effective malaria vaccine, announcing in today&#39;s edition of the Lancet that a candidate vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline will protect a significant number of children.
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Clinical trials are under way in the UK to test how effectively it combats the increasingly drug-resistant malaria parasite. The drug is a synthetic, simpler version of a traditional
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British and Kenyan scientists have developed a new treatment for the killer disease malaria.
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Scientists say they have developed an effective vaccine against malaria that could be ready for use in six years.
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Scientists have created a synthetic drug which could offer new hope in the fight against malaria. Nearly two billion people live in areas affected by malaria.
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A new compound gives hope as the disease has become increasingly resistant to current drugs. By Thomas H. Maugh II / Los Angeles Times.
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Combating malaria has been one of the primary goals of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and its latest gift of $42.6 million will fund a nonprofit drug company&#39;s high-tech take on an ancient Chinese remedy.
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In a major medical breakthrough, researchers in the United Kingdom and United States have discovered why the malaria parasite (Plasmodium falciparum) has become resistant to chloroquine, one of the most ...
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After 50 years of failure, a vaccine against malaria could be in sight, raising hopes of slashing the death toll from a disease that kills more than a million people, mostly babies and pregnant women, every year.
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AIDS drugs that work through novel mechanisms and next-generation versions of existing drugs will soon offer new options for the growing number of patients whose disease no longer responds to current drugs.
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Scientists have tested in mice an experimental vaccine for malaria that does not provide immunity but aims to stamp it out in whole regions by eradicating the disease-causing parasite from mosquitoes that spread it.
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After more than two decades of effort, researchers say they have found the first vaccine that is effective against malaria. Trials in Africa showed that the vaccine blocked almost half of new infections in
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Widespread use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets and state-of-the-art drugs have succeeded in cutting malaria deaths in half in two countries most heavily affected by the disease, the World Health Organization will report tomorrow.
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NAIROBI, Aug. 16 -- Long-lasting, insecticide-treated mosquito nets should be distributed free, rapidly and widely in malaria-endemic areas, World Health Organization officials said here Thursday, setting new guidelines for fighting the mosquito-borne disease around the globe.
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NEW YORK - In a new study, researchers present molecular evidence to show that malaria parasites in Africa that are resistant to the drug pyrimethamine actually originated in southeast Asia.
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If SARS comes back to haunt the world again, a team of Belgian scientists may have discovered a new weapon to use against it. Chloroquine, a drug used to fight malaria since World War II, has been found to