Early step in sleeping sickness cure
Scientists have taken a tentative step towards creating a cure for the most common form of sleeping sickness. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - August 21, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Gene variant providing sleeping sickness resistance linked to kidney disease
A new study led by University of Pennsylvania researchers involves a classic case of evolution's fickle nature: a genetic mutation that protects against a potentially fatal infectious disease also appears to increase the risk of developing a chronic, debilitating condition. Such a relationship exists between malaria and sickle cell anemia. Individuals who carry a gene to resist the former are carriers for the latter... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - August 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Genetics Source Type: news
Penn: New variants at gene linked to kidney disease, sleeping sickness resistance
(University of Pennsylvania) A new study led by University of Pennsylvania researchers involves a classic case of evolution's fickle nature: a genetic mutation that protects against a potentially fatal infectious disease also appears to increase the risk of developing a chronic, debilitating condition. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 31, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Global Health: W.H.O. Recognition Is Boost for New Drugs
The World Health Organization has named as essential three medicines developed by a group that has its sights on neglected diseases. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - July 15, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Tags: Malaria Chagas Disease Medicine and Health Sleeping Sickness Source Type: news
[Video] New Drug Could Eradicate Sleeping Sickness By 2020
(Source: MSF Multimedia)
Source: MSF Multimedia - July 10, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
US$100 chip may ease diagnosis of 15 tropical disease
A multitasking microchip that can test blood samples for diseases including malaria and sleeping sickness has been launched in Singapore. (Source: SciDev.Net)
Source: SciDev.Net - May 21, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Designing Novel Inhibitors of Trypanosoma brucei
Computational simulations of essential biological systems in pathogenic organisms are increasingly being used to reveal structural and dynamical features for targets of interest. At the same time, increased research efforts, especially from academia, have been directed toward drug discovery for neglected tropical diseases. Although these diseases cripple large populations in less fortunate parts of the world, either very few new drugs are being developed or the available treatments for them have severe side effects, including death. This chapter walks readers through a computational investigation used to find novel inhibit...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Pharmacology/Toxicology - April 13, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Screening Method Created To Expedite The Development Of New Drugs In The Fight Against Tropical Diseases
A novel tool exploits baker's yeast to expedite the development of new drugs to fight multiple tropical diseases, including malaria, schistosomiasis, and African sleeping sickness. The unique screening method uses yeasts which have been genetically engineered to express parasite and human proteins to identify chemical compounds that target disease-causing parasites but do not affect their human hosts. Parasitic diseases affect millions of people annually, often in the most deprived parts of the world... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 27, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Tropical Diseases Source Type: news
U.S. Cuts to Global Health Budget “Mass-scale Malpractice”
Public health workers, activists and policymakers are stepping up a last-minute campaign to highlight the global health impact of historic, sweeping cuts to the U.S. federal budget due to go into effect Friday if Congress doesn’t act.
While some are suggesting that the automatic reductions, known here as the “sequester”, could set back health-related research and outcomes by a generation, others are warning that NGOs and project implementers, long working on the assumption that the cutbacks would be averted, are now finding themselves massively underprepared for how to operate on slashed budgets.
“While these budge...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 26, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Carey L. Biron Tags: Active Citizens Aid Development & Aid Financial Crisis Headlines Health North America Poverty & MDGs Women's Health World HIV/AIDS sequester United States Source Type: news
Angola: Three New Cases of Sleeping Sickness Recorded
[ANGOP]Luanda -New cases of sleeping illness were recorded throughout January 2013, at a health centre in Luanda's Viana Municipalty, Angop has learnt. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news
[Video] Fighting Neglected Disease Sleeping Sickness in South Sudan
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Source: MSF Multimedia - February 14, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
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Source: MSF Multimedia - February 11, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video Source Type: news
Neglected tropical diseases: mapping occurrence and tracking control
Mobile and mapping technologies can play a key role in controlling NTDs, but more effort is required to put them into the hands of frontline workersGPS-enabled smart phones, satnavs and Google maps provide a wealth of data on geographical locations and the things we are interested in. Such geographical richness is not readily available to programmes that tackle neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) – a group of chronic and disabling diseases that mainly occur in the tropics.The recent Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study estimated that NTDs account for only 1% of disability-adjusted life years worldwide. This aggregate figu...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 30, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Blogposts Guardian Professional Infectious diseases Malaria and infectious diseases Health Society Global development professionals network Science Source Type: news
Discovery May Lead To New Treatments For Deadly Sleeping Sickness
While its common name may make it sound almost whimsical, sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, is in reality a potentially fatal parasitic infection that has ravaged populations in sub-Saharan Africa for decades, and it continues to infect thousands of people every year. Few drugs have been developed to treat sleeping sickness since the 1940s, and those still in use are highly toxic, sometimes causing painful side effects and even death... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 21, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Tropical Diseases Source Type: news
Mathematical Model Suggests Wild Animals May Contribute To The Resurgence Of African Sleeping Sickness
Wild animals may be a key contributor to the continuing spread of African sleeping sickness, new research published in PLOS Computational Biology shows. The West African form of the disease, also known as Gambiense Human African trypanosomiasis, affects around 10,000 people in Africa every year and is deadly if left untreated... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 20, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Tropical Diseases Source Type: news
