Volunteers With No Medical Training Are Fighting Diseases The World Ignores
This article is part of HuffPost’s Project Zero campaign, a yearlong series on neglected tropical diseases and efforts to fight them.
For people suffering from painful diseases in remote parts of the world, neighbors volunteering as health educators can be their best shot at getting help.
Ordinary people, without any formal medical training, have stepped up to teach others about common illnesses in the province of Nampula, Mozambique, which has one of the highest rates of neglected tropical diseases in the country ― but where many people live in remote, rural communities, far from any health centers.
As p...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - January 3, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news
Volunteers With No Medical Training Are Fighting Diseases The World Ignores
This article is part of HuffPost’s Project Zero campaign, a yearlong series on neglected tropical diseases and efforts to fight them.
For people suffering from painful diseases in remote parts of the world, neighbors volunteering as health educators can be their best shot at getting help.
Ordinary people, without any formal medical training, have stepped up to teach others about common illnesses in the province of Nampula, Mozambique, which has one of the highest rates of neglected tropical diseases in the country ― but where many people live in remote, rural communities, far from any health centers.
As p...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Deadly sleeping sickness set to be eliminated in six years
A Gambian sleeping sickness could be eliminated in 6 years thanks to new research. A combination of active screening and tsetse fly traps, it turns out, will be the key to quick elimination. Without changing current strategy, however, researchers warn that elimination isn ' t predicted until the next century. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - December 23, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Deadly sleeping sickness set to be eliminated in 6 years
(University of Warwick) Gambian sleeping sickness -- a deadly parasitic disease spread by tsetse flies -- could be eliminated in six years in key regions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to new research by the University of Warwick. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - December 22, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases 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 Group Helps Fight Devastating Diseases The World Ignores
This article is part HuffPost’s Project Zero campaign, a yearlong series on neglected tropical diseases and efforts to eliminate them.
This group is developing drugs to treat diseases that are too often left behind.
The Drugs For Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) develops treatments for neglected tropical diseases ― a group of at least 18 diseases, such as elephantiasis and river blindness, which affect more than 1 billion people but are largely unknown and under-resourced since they mainly impact poor communities.
“They’re diseases that nobody has ever heard of, that are di...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - December 1, 2016 Category: Science 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
How You Can Help Stamp Out A Deadly Disease
This article is part HuffPost’s Project Zero campaign, a yearlong series on neglected tropical diseases and efforts to eliminate them.
Some events have a way of getting under our skin. (The bitter 2016 election comes to mind.) They consume our thoughts and conversations, dominate our news and social feeds, maybe even keep us up at night.
But some problems, for whatever reason, fail to capture the world’s attention.
Take sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease caused by the bite of a fly, that has plagued Africa for centuries. Sleeping sickness is fatal if left untreated, and the most recent epidemic re...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Solving the riddle of putrid camel urine could aid millions affected by sleeping sickness
Biochemists have solved an old mystery as to the cause of especially smelly camel urine, with implications for the millions of people affected by African parasites called trypanosomes. These parasites frequently cause fatalities via sleeping sickness. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - November 17, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Solving the riddle of putrid camel pee could aid millions affected by sleeping sickness
(Trinity College Dublin) Trypanosome parasites that cause sleeping sickness break down amino acids to produce a metabolic by-product that suppresses the immune response. This by-product, which makes the urine of infected camels smell terrible, is a good candidate for anti-trypanosome drugs and therapies. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - November 17, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
New Clues to Sleeping Sickness
Disease-causing parasites found on skin of symptomless people
Source: HealthDay
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Source: MedlinePlus Health News - October 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New Clues to Sleeping Sickness
Title: New Clues to Sleeping SicknessCategory: Health NewsCreated: 10/3/2016 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 10/4/2016 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Sleep General)
Source: MedicineNet Sleep General - October 4, 2016 Category: Sleep Medicine Source Type: news
New clues to sleeping sickness
HealthDay News Parasites that cause sleeping sickness can be found on the skin of people with no symptoms of the disease, a new study finds. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
