River blindness parasite resisting treatment
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The parasite that causes river blindness appears to be developing resistance to the only drug widely available to treat it, researchers said on Thursday.
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Seven years after the World Health   Organization heralded the virtual elimination of river   blindness from West Africa, the debilitating disease is   regaining ground in the world's poorest continent.
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German scientists have found a new way to prevent the HIV virus from replicating, offering hope in the face of the virus's increasing resistance to existing drugs.
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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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Researchers are developing a vaccine that blocks development of the malaria parasite while it is still inside the mosquito.
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By Erik Lacayo, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 14--ARMONA -- In an attempt to save their Armona farm from becoming a water treatment plant, members of a Texas family pleaded their case before the local water district Wednesday night.
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SAN DIEGO ---- The batter&#39;s eye in baseball is the device that prevents hitters from losing sight of the tiny white pill emerging from a pitcher&#39;s hand amid the swarm of distracting motions beyond the outfield fence.
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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - It's best not to get between a predator and its prey - especially when they're in the passenger seat of your golf cart. Water plant worker Mitch Walter would offer that bit of advice and bears the scratches of one who speaks from experience.
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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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WUGONG LAKE, China -- Near the banks of the catfish farm he owns is Zhu Zhiqiu's secret weapon for breeding healthy fish: the medicine shed. Inside are iodine bottles, vitamin packets, and Chinese herbal concoctions he says substitute for antibiotics.
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Clearing algae from pools and rivers could significantly curb the spread of malaria, research carried out in Mexico indicates.
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A transport system used by the malaria parasite to infect blood cells could be a target for new treatments, scientists hope.
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To make matters worse in South Asia, the disaster zone is now being threatened with outbreaks of disease. The World Health Organization is warning that if fresh water and medicine
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Wildlife officials in Missouri are trying to get boaters to help stop the spread of invasive zebra mussels through the region's lakes and rivers.
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German scientists have found a new way  to prevent the HIV virus from replicating, offering hope in the  face of the virus's increasing resistance to existing drugs.
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By Georgia Evdoxiadis  gevdoxiadis@@dailyherald.com  Though a bane to lake bathers everywhere, so-called swimmer's itch is no more than a cycle of life gone awry.
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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.