Archive for October, 2008
The military and malaria have a long history together. Regarded as a scourge of soldiers in tropical areas, the disease is said to have been responsible for more casualties than bullets. In fact, military research produced many of our modern antimalarials including resochin (chloroquine) by the Germans prior to World War 2 and mefloquine which [...]
Mosquito syringes and more funded by the Gates foundations grand challenges
0 Comments Published October 28th, 2008 in ResearchThe Gates Foundation recently released the 104 funded “exploration” topics from an applicant pool of about 4,000 grants. It’s an interesting initiative (previously mentioned here) and my friend Andrew McKee has already posted a great summary of the grants directly or indirectly related to malaria. It’s interesting to note all the applications I came across [...]
Monitoring antimalarial drug resistance with molecular tools
0 Comments Published October 27th, 2008 in Drug resistance, SurveillanceMillions of people get treated for malaria every year so its important to use an antimalarial which works. Treatment failures result in a prolonged illness for the patient with an increased risk of severe malaria and death. In addition, they contribute to increased malaria transmission. Makes sense right? However, the parasite has an amazing ability [...]
Survival - a new BBC global health series showcases malaria
2 Comments Published October 7th, 2008 in CommunicationI have a lot of respect for the BBC and the quality programming they produce, especially when it deals with global health. “Survival” is a new global health documentary produced by BBC World News. The series began October 4th and ends on November 29th - including an entire episode dedicated to malaria which will air [...]
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- Words of malaria wisdom
- NEJM malaria articles and duration of protection for the RTS,S malaria vaccine
- A research agenda towards malaria elimination
- Fighting malaria since the Skeeter beaters
- Mosquito syringes and more funded by the Gates foundations grand challenges
- Monitoring antimalarial drug resistance with molecular tools
- Survival - a new BBC global health series showcases malaria
- Launch of the Global Malaria Action Plan
- 2008 World malaria report released
- Resurrecting the past to create a new malaria vaccine
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