Dominic Kwiatkowski obituary
Paediatrician and geneticist determined to save the lives of children in countries where malaria is endemicMalaria kills more than half a million people every year, mostly children under the age of five in Africa. Saving the lives of those children was the lifelong mission of Dominic Kwiatkowski, who has died suddenly aged 69.Allied to that ambition was his vision that genetic sequencing – a technology that was beginning to be affordable on a large scale in the 2000s – could answer questions about why some children died and others survived.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 16, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Georgina Ferry Tags: Malaria Medical research Genetics People in science World news Thailand Vaccines and immunisation Doctors Source Type: news
Reps. Bera, Kiggans Introduce Bipartisan Global Frontline Health Workers Resolution
This article is based on thepost published on the Frontline Health Workers Coalition blog authored by Carol Bales of IntraHealth and Corinne Paul of CARE USA. (Source: IntraHealth International)
Source: IntraHealth International - May 15, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Tags: Health workforce development Policy & Advocacy Health Workers Nurses Source Type: news
‘ What Price Was My Father ’ s Life Worth? ’ Right-Wing Doctors Are Still Peddling Dubious COVID Drugs
Julie Moore keeps an orange plastic bottle on her desk in Gas City, Indiana, with 14 round white pills. The other 21, she says, killed her father.
Moore remembers laughing when she first heard on the news that people were taking ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug commonly used as a livestock dewormer, to treat COVID-19. She never expected her father, a career pharmacist, to become one of them.
Over the course of the pandemic, Moore’s father started watching online videos of doctors in white coats who claimed that alternative COVID treatments were being used effectively in India. He told his skeptical children that th...
Source: TIME: Health - May 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Vera Bergengruen Tags: Uncategorized feature Misinformation & Disinformation uspoliticspolicy Source Type: news
Kenya: The Real Impact of the New Malaria Vaccine in Kenya
[Africa Renewal] Since the vaccine was introduced in parts of Kenya, hospitalizations for children under 5 for severe malaria have fallen substantially, and there is a drop in child deaths (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - May 10, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Are you a mosquito magnet? Help may be at hand
From repellants to app-based mosquito monitoring and a new malaria vaccine, researchers are making important breakthroughs in the fight against the biting insectsThe earliest signs of summer herald my annual metamorphosis – from woman to lifesize pincushion. Whether at home or abroad, when mosquitoes begin their hunt for blood I am reminded, via a blanket of red blotches that have more than once swelled to the size of a golf ball, that mine is a godlike nectar. On a single day last December, a tropical Christmas tr ip quickly became a less-than-festive scratchathon after a glut of bites arrived, following which I was stu...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 7, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Charlotte Lytton Tags: Medical research Infectious diseases Vaccines and immunisation Science Source Type: news
Kenya: Beyond the Numbers - the Real-World Impact of the Malaria Vaccine in Kenya
[Africa Renewal] Since the vaccine was introduced in parts of Kenya, hospitalizations for children under 5 for severe malaria have fallen substantially, and there is a drop in child deaths (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - May 4, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Tuberculosis Risk Factors Exacerbated by Climate Change
A doctor talks to a TB survivor at a clinic in Manilla,
Philippines. Credit: Getty Images for TB Alliance
By Ed HoltBRATISLAVA, May 2 2023 (IPS) While there is no established causal relationship between climate change and tuberculosis (TB), studies have begun to highlight the potential impact its effects could have on the spread of the disease.
Undernutrition, HIV/AIDS, overcrowding, poverty, and diabetes have all been identified as TB risk factors that are worsened by climate change. Worryingly, many countries with high burdens of TB, including, for instance, drought-hit Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, and Peru, have suffered...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ed Holt Tags: Climate Change Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Migration & Refugees TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report tuberculosis (TB) Source Type: news
Malawi: Health Workers Tout Routine Vaccination Programme As Game-Changer in Malaria Fight
[Nyasa Times] Health workers in Machinga have described the ongoing Malaria Vaccination Programme as a game-changer in the fight against malaria in the district. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - April 29, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
News at a glance: U.S. rules on carbon emissions, better vehicle batteries, and a Mars moon ’s close-up
PLANETARY SCIENCE
Mars’s moon may be its kin
Researchers have long believed that Mars’s two moons, Deimos and Phobos, are captured asteroids. But the first close-up images of Deimos, taken by the United Arab Emirates’s $200 million Hope spacecraft, suggest the 12-kilometer-wide body instead formed from the same material as Mars, researchers revealed this week at the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union. The imagery, taken during a 10 March flyby, indicates that Deimos’s surface is covered by volcanic basalts like those on Mars, with no signs of the carbon-rich rock more often foun...
Source: ScienceNOW - April 27, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Nigeria: R21 Malaria Vaccine - Clinical Trials 'Ll Begin in 6 Weeks - NAFDAC
[Vanguard] The Director General of the National Agency For Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, said yesterday that the approval process for the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine requires more clinical trials before its full use. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 27, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Malaria Vaccine Adoption Pre-Empts WHO Green Light
[SciDev.Net] Edo, Nigeria -- The approval of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine by Ghana and Nigeria is the first time a major malaria intervention has been adopted without World Health Organization (WHO) qualification and could greatly reduce child deaths in Africa, say disease experts. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 26, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Use New Tools to Save Lives, WHO Says On World Malaria Day
[UN News] The UN health agency issued a call to action on Tuesday, on the occasion of World Malaria Day, for increased implementation of new and existing interventions to save lives, including its pilot vaccine programme in Africa. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 26, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: WHO Urges Increased Implementation of Recommended Tools to Combat Malaria
[WHO] Marking World Malaria Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) is issuing a call for increased implementation of new and existing interventions to save lives from malaria. Nearly 1.5 million children at high risk of illness and death from malaria in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have now received their first dose of the first malaria vaccine, RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S), thanks to an ongoing pilot programme coordinated by WHO. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 26, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Malawi: Malawi Vaccinates 1.5 Million Children Against Malaria
[Nyasa Times] Officials from ministry of Health say nearly 1.5 million under five children have received at least one dose of the malaria vaccine in the country since 2019. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - April 25, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
A new malaria vaccine could be a 'huge deal' in the fight to save lives in Africa and abroad
Ghana is the first country in the world to approve the R21/Matrix-M vaccine from the University of Oxford. Since then, Nigeria has conditionally approved the vaccine, and other African countries may follow suit — but WHO's yet to approve it. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Radio/The Current Source Type: news
