Genomic screening helps doctors target girl's cancer
(Medical University of South Carolina) Two-year-old Victoria Thompson is part of the national precision medicine trial Peds PLAN through MUSC Children's Health for children with high-risk neuroblastoma. She's also receiving DFMO, a drug normally used to treat African sleeping sickness that may help keep high-risk neuroblastoma that's in remission from recurring. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 5, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
News from the pathogen that causes sleeping sickness
(University of W ü rzburg) A team of researchers from the University of W ü rzburg has discovered an interesting enzyme in the pathogens responsible for African sleeping sickness: It could be a promising target for drugs. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - June 22, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Researchers studying century-old drug in potential new approach to autism
(University of California - San Diego) In a small, randomized Phase I/II clinical trial (SAT1), researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine say a 100-year-old drug called suramin, originally developed to treat African sleeping sickness, was safely administered to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who subsequently displayed measurable, but transient, improvement in core symptoms of autism. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 26, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Merck partners with University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to fight Neglected Tropical Diseases
Merck, a leading science and technology company, today announced that it has agreed with the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to share compounds under the WIPO Re:Search open innovation umbrella, thereby deepening its efforts in the fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) to identify potential cures for leishmaniasis, Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) and human African trypanosomiasis (HAT, sleeping sickness). (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - April 20, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Merck Group Business and Industry Source Type: news
Scientists effectively disrupt communication between parasites that spread disease
A new intervention to tamper with parasites ' communication system may lead to the development of drugs to treat, and prevent the spread of, devastating diseases such as African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas ' disease. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - March 9, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news
This Man Went Abroad And Brought Back A Disease U.S. Doctors Had Never Seen
This article is part of HuffPost’s Project Zero campaign, a yearlong series on neglected tropical diseases and efforts to fight them.
Lying in a hospital bed at the State Department medical unit in Washington, D.C., Claude Reece suspected he might have contracted malaria.
It was 1995 and the American was sent back to the U.S. after coming down with a fever, sweats, pounding stomach aches and headaches, while on his first assignment working as a USAID country desk officer for Chad.
“I felt that whatever ailment I contracted could be treated by the Medical Unit,” Reece told The Huffington Post ― that...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 17, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
This Man Went Abroad And Brought Back A Disease U.S. Doctors Had Never Seen
This article is part of HuffPost’s Project Zero campaign, a yearlong series on neglected tropical diseases and efforts to fight them.
Lying in a hospital bed at the State Department medical unit in Washington, D.C., Claude Reece suspected he might have contracted malaria.
It was 1995 and the American was sent back to the U.S. after coming down with a fever, sweats, pounding stomach aches and headaches, while on his first assignment working as a USAID country desk officer for Chad.
“I felt that whatever ailment I contracted could be treated by the Medical Unit,” Reece told The Huffington Post ― that...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - January 17, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news
How Disease Detectives Unearthed A Forgotten Drug To Fight A Lethal Illness
This article is part HuffPost’s Project Zero campaign, a yearlong series on neglected tropical diseases and efforts to eliminate them.
One morning a few years ago, a vial containing just a few drops of a long-forgotten drug candidate arrived at the office of bioengineer Els Torreele in Switzerland.
The compound, fexinidazole, had been studied at a drug company several decades earlier, but researchers had given up on it for no clear reason. Torreele had asked the company to unearth whatever it had left from its archive, hoping to get her hands on the final clue in a long process of painstaking detectiv...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - December 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
18 Diseases The World Has Turned Its Back On
This article is part HuffPost’s Project Zero campaign, a yearlong series on neglected tropical diseases and efforts to eliminate them.
More than 1 billion people on the planet suffer from illnesses that the world pays little attention to.
Neglected tropical diseases are a group of at least 18 diseases that primarily affect people living in poverty in tropical regions of the world and are virtually unknown elsewhere, according to the World Health Organization.
These are diseases like river blindness, which has infected 18 million people worldwide and caused blindness in 270,000 people; or...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - December 6, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
18 Diseases The World Has Turned Its Back On
This article is part HuffPost’s Project Zero campaign, a yearlong series on neglected tropical diseases and efforts to eliminate them.
More than 1 billion people on the planet suffer from illnesses that the world pays little attention to.
Neglected tropical diseases are a group of at least 18 diseases that primarily affect people living in poverty in tropical regions of the world and are virtually unknown elsewhere, according to the World Health Organization.
These are diseases like river blindness, which has infected 18 million people worldwide and caused blindness in 270,000 people; or...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - December 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
This Doctor Gave Up His Shot At A Cushy Career To Cure A Little Known-Disease
This article is part HuffPost’s Project Zero campaign, a yearlong series on neglected tropical diseases and efforts to eliminate them.
His name was Tendayi. He had watched five of his nine children die. Yet when he was diagnosed with a serious disease, he steadfastly held onto his will to live ― until he just couldn’t anymore.
Tendayi died about a decade ago, but his picture still sits on Dr. Wilfried Mutombo’s desk in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It reminds him daily that a terrifying ― yet treatable ― disease is still killing far too many people.
Muto...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Africa: New Finding Offers Breakthrough in Beating Sleeping Sickness
[The Conversation Africa] African sleeping sickness is a deadly disease spread by the bite of the tsetse fly, which only lives in sub-Saharan Africa. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 22, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
New drug for tropical disease Trypanosomiasis discovered
Researchers are working to find the fastest way possible to treat and cure human African trypanosomiasis, long referred to as sleeping sickness. Human African trypanosomiasis, or HAT, is a tropical disease endemic to some rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa. A vector-borne parasitic disease, existing diagnosis and treatment regimens are complex, especially challenging in some of the world ' s most poverty-stricken regions. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 30, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
UGA researchers discover a drug for a tropical disease
(University of Georgia) Researchers at the University of Georgia are working to find the fastest way possible to treat and cure human African trypanosomiasis, long referred to as sleeping sickness. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - August 30, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
New research reveals single class of drug could treat three neglected diseases
New research conducted by scientists from the University of York and Novartis has revealed that one drug might be able to treat three fatal and usually neglected parasitic diseases, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis and human African trypanosomiasis, als … (Source: Pharmaceutical Technology)
Source: Pharmaceutical Technology - August 9, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
