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The battle against malaria in Africa has stalled. Can research in Mozambique explain why?
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Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - September 8, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Corporate Efforts to Research and Develop Therapeutic Agents for Infectious Diseases That Threaten Human
Yakugaku Zasshi. 2022;142(7):691-696. doi: 10.1248/yakushi.21-00210-2.ABSTRACTOvercoming serious infectious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that threaten human life around the world is an important issue in global health. Most of these diseases are concentrated in developing and low-income countries, and in order to reinforce drug discovery activities, pharmaceutical companies are actively promoting industry-academia-government partnerships and utilizing funds to stimulate global health activities. In this presentation, three examples of our drug discovery activities are...
Source: Yakugaku Zasshi : Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan - July 5, 2022 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Ryu Yoshida Rina Kaki Osamu Yoshida Takao Shishido Teruhisa Kato Yoshinori Yamano Source Type: research

Transforming the Global Economy or Parachuting Cats into Borneo?
Credit: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)By Lawrence SurendraBANGKOK, Thailand, Aug 24 2020 (IPS) The COVID 19 Pandemic continues relentlessly. Deaths approaching a million globally, 22 million infected and growing. Brazil, India, the US and Russia accounting for almost 50% of the total cases in the world. Medically the promise of a vaccine is given as signs of hope; what surprises awaits us when such a vaccine is available, would be another story. Economically, to address the uncertainty and the grim future ahead, the UN, some governments and even Joe Biden the US Presidential hopeful, are waving ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 24, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lawrence Surendra Tags: Development & Aid Featured Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Population Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news

Digital Health And The Ebola Epidemic: How Not To Let It Go Viral
More than 1,500 deaths and 2,500 people sickened – that’s the recent account of the ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) raging in the country since last August, and recently declared a public health emergency of international concern. Experts say efforts to contain the virus are hindered by biological, public health, political, and cultural issues, but we looked around what digital health technologies could do to mitigate the spread and the devastation of the infectious disease. The Spaghetti-like virus… The lethal Ebola virus first appeared in 1976 around a river in Congo – it was named ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 1, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Africa AI artificial intelligence Congo digital digital health digital maps disease disease outbreak ebola epidemic Innovation technology Source Type: blogs

Philanthropists Join Forces to Fund Africa ’s Cash-Strapped Health Sector
Tristate Heart and Vascular Centre in Nigeria. Credit: Tristate Heart and Vascular CentreBy Pavithra Rao, Africa Renewal*NEW YORK, Sep 28 2017 (IPS)In the 2017 World Happiness Report by Gallup, African countries score poorly. Of the 150 countries on the list, the Central African Republic, Tanzania and Burundi rank as the unhappiest countries in the world. Some of the factors driving unhappiness are the poor state of the continent’s health care systems, the persistence of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, and the growth of lifestyle diseases such as hypertension, heart disease and diabetes.Few African countries make sig...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 28, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Pavithra Rao Tags: Development & Aid Featured Global Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news

Doctors Do Know Best. Exhibit A: The Charlie Gard Case.
By SAURABH JHA, MD For American conservatives, Britain’s NHS is an antiquated Orwellian dystopia. For Brits, even those who don’t love the NHS, American conservatives are better suited to spaghetti westerns, such as Fistful of Dollars, than reality. The twain is unlikely to meet after the recent press surrounding Charlie Gard the infant, now deceased, with a rare, fatal mitochondrial disorder in which mitochondrial DNA is depleted – mitochondrial depletion disorder (MDD). In this condition, the cells lose their power supply and tissues, notably in the brain, die progressively and rapidly. The courts forbade Charlie�...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: OP-ED Patients Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 25th 2016
This study offers one useful data point, as the authors describe a genetic alteration that can boost the supply of new immune cells in old mice. The decline in that supply with age is one of the factors leading to poor immune function - and that means more than just vulnerability to infections, as the immune system is also responsible for destroying potentially cancerous and senescent cells, as well as clearing out forms of damaged proteins and unwanted metabolic waste. Various possibilities for increasing the number of new immune cells already exist in principle, such as regenerating the thymus, or cell therapies in which...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 24, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Malaria: Hitches and Hopes.
Abstract Malaria, a devastating infectious disease caused by parasites of Plasmodium genera is transmitted from person to person through bites of infected mosquitoes. It generally traps underdeveloped nations with poor infrastructure and high population density. It has attracted considerable attention from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries and government agencies but the efforts to eradicate this threat face a number of technical, economic, financial and institutional hurdles. In the absence of clinically proven vaccines to combat malaria,chemotherapy continues to be the best available option, altho...
Source: Mini Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry - April 28, 2014 Category: Chemistry Authors: Marella A, Verma G, Shaquiquzzaman M, Akhter M, Alam MM Tags: Mini Rev Med Chem Source Type: research

Twerking Disease: The Definitive Medical Resource For Doctors.
This study was published in Time magazine so it must be true.  In addition, the story was picked up by 95.8 THE BONE and was described by a self proclaimed expert twerker jockey between songs about booty slappin' and G-thangs.      EXERCISE Studies have shown most folks watching Richard Simmons in "Twerking to the Oldies" have been cured of their twerking addiction.      MIRROR THERAPY Consider buying a full length wall mirror for full therapeutic effect.  Alternatively, take a video of yourself twerking while checking yourself out in a mirror, put it on YouTube and let ever...
Source: The Happy Hospitalist - September 7, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Tamer Mahrous Source Type: blogs

Indian Court Wants Stricter Clinical Trial Oversight
Amid ongoing concern over the conduct of clinical trials in India and patient protection, the Indian Supreme Court has slammed regulators for shoddy oversight that is creating “havoc” and leading to the deaths of many citizens. In sharp remarks, the government was criticized for going into a “deep slumber” and failing to establish mechanisms to stop “rackets” of multinational drugmakers, which are allegedly conducting illegal clinical trials around the country, according to various media reports (see here and here). “There has to be some sense of responsibility (on the part of the government). Hu...
Source: Pharmalot - January 7, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Clinical Trials GlaxoSmithKline HPV India Vaccines Source Type: blogs