Africa: New UN Report Urges Boosting National-Level Investment to Tackle Neglected Tropical Diseases
[UN News]Scaling up investment to tackle leprosy, dengue fever, sleeping sickness and other neglected tropical diseases will improve the health and well-being of more than 1.5 billion people, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today, launching a new report stressing that countries must make firm and sustainable budgetary commitments if they are to meet the agency's targets and accelerate progress. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 20, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
New UN report urges boosting national-level investment to tackle neglected tropical diseases
Scaling up investment to tackle leprosy, dengue fever, sleeping sickness and other neglected tropical diseases will improve the health and well-being of more than 1.5 billion people, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today, launching a new report. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - February 19, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Century-old drug reverses autism-like symptoms in fragile X mouse model
Researchers previously reported that a drug used for almost a century to treat trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, reversed environmental autism-like symptoms in mice. Now, a new study suggests that a genetic form of autism-like symptoms in mice are also corrected with the drug, even when treatment was started in young adult mice. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 15, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Century-old drug reverses autism-like symptoms in fragile X mouse model
(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine previously reported that a drug used for almost a century to treat trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, reversed environmental autism-like symptoms in mice. Now, a new study published in this week's online issue of Molecular Autism, suggests that a genetic form of autism-like symptoms in mice are also corrected with the drug, even when treatment was started in young adult mice. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 15, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Cashew nut by-product may help cut sleeping sickness
A cheap waste product could be used to make chemicals that attract tsetse flies to insecticide-coated traps. (Source: SciDev.Net)
Source: SciDev.Net - December 24, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Important element in fight against sleeping sickness found
Researchers have now uncovered how parasites that cause the deadly sleeping sickness in Africa absorb an important nutrient from the human blood stream. The result may help the development of more effective drugs to fight the disease. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - November 24, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Important element in the fight against sleeping sickness found
(Aarhus University) Researchers from Aarhus have now uncovered how parasites that cause the deadly sleeping sickness in Africa absorb an important nutrient from the human blood stream. The result may help the development of more effective drugs to fight the disease. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 24, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
8 Rare 'House, M.D.' Cases That Can Actually Happen (And How To Avoid Them)
"House, M.D.," starring Hugh Laurie as a pill-popping genius, was conceived as the medical version of "Sherlock Holmes" and ran for eight seasons on Fox. Sunday, Nov. 16, marked the 10-year anniversary of the premiere. Though it's easy to look back on the show and focus on some of the unbelievable details of the cases, it might surprise you to learn that "House" was actually much more realistic than you thought.
Yeah, the odds of all these rare medical cases coming to one hospital in New Jersey are pretty slim, but a variety of sources -- including Andrew Holtz, former CNN Medical Correspondent and author of Medical Scien...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - November 17, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
New hope for drug discovery in African sleeping sickness
African sleeping sickness, the neglected tropical disease, affects tens of thousands of people and is mostly fatal. Now, new research has identified hundreds of chemical compounds that could lead to a cure. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - October 25, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
New hope for drug discovery in African sleeping sickness
(Northeastern University) The neglected tropical disease affects tens of thousands of people and is mostly fatal. Now, new research co-authored by Northeastern chemistry professor Michael Pollastri has identified hundreds of chemical compounds that could lead to a cure. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 24, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Enzyme discovery paves way to tackling deadly parasite diseases
An enzyme found in all living things could hold the key to combating deadly diseases such as sleeping sickness, a study suggests. Researchers say this discovery creates an opportunity to design drugs that block activity of the enzyme -- known as pyruvate kinase -- in species that cause infection. Blocking the enzyme would effectively kill the parasite, without affecting the same enzyme in the patient. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - September 24, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Enzyme discovery paves way to tackling deadly parasite diseases
(University of Edinburgh) An enzyme found in all living things could hold the key to combating deadly diseases such as sleeping sickness, a study suggests. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - September 24, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
New drug candidate for Chagas disease tested in patients in Bolivia
(Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative) The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative announced today at the International Congress of Parasitology, the launch of a Phase II drug trial to test fexinidazole, a drug shelved in the 1980s and 'rediscovered' by DNDi nearly a decade ago, for Chagas disease patients. The drug is also being tested in patients in Africa for two other parasitic diseases, sleeping sickness and visceral leishmaniasis. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - August 12, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Eradicating fatal sleeping sickness by killing off the tsetse fly
A professor of biology has lent his expertise in understanding insect movement to help shape a UN-sanctioned eradication effort of the tsetse fly -- a creature that passes the fatal African sleeping sickness to humans, domestic animals, and wildlife. The tsetse fly is the main vector for Human African Trypanosomiasis (aka sleeping sickness), and spreads the disease by biting humans or animals. The disease affects the central nervous system and is fatal if untreated. For some forms of the disease, victims can reach the terminal stage before symptoms even start to show. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - July 17, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Eradicating fatal sleeping sickness by killing off the tsetse fly
(Brigham Young University) Steven L. Peck, a BYU professor of biology, has lent his expertise in understanding insect movement to help shape a UN-sanctioned eradication effort of the tsetse fly -- a creature that passes the fatal African sleeping sickness to humans, domestic animals, and wildlife.Results of the effort appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 17, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
