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Student innovation in low cost diagnostics
2 Comments Published by naman April 6th, 2009 in DiagnosisMy brother is amazing. For his senior design project as a biomedical engineer, he is developing an inexpensive platform for the diagnosis of infectious diseases (covered by the News & Observer). Pavak sought out technical and business development experts, put together a great team of students, and spent countless hours building an imaging cytometer – [...]
Belgium and the globalization of malaria
0 Comments Published by naman January 23rd, 2009 in DiagnosisA very interesting malaria case was reported in the CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases journal (open access). Theunissen et al. describe a patient who contracted Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Belgium despite not havingĀ visited any malaria endemic area for nine years! What happened here? A number of possibilities exist. Relapse from a previous infection is not [...]
Scaling lab diagnosis of malaria and the end of presumptive treatment in Africa?
2 Comments Published by naman January 12th, 2009 in Diagnosis, TreatmentPLOS Medicine (open access! – I enjoy supporting journals in this format) did it again. The journal has carried some great exchanges between scientific “clans” on contentious topics which tend to be both lively and informative. A previous debate included whether or not data from Demographic Surveillance Systems (DSS), a form of long term demographic [...]
The CellScope – mobile phone microscopes for malaria
1 Comment Published by naman May 24th, 2008 in DiagnosisThis is cool. Often much research feels far removed from everyday applications and practical concerns. So it is terribly rewarding to see a skunk works type creation that has great potential for how we deliver care. The CellScope is a microscope attachment for cellular phones which is designed to allow field workers to take images [...]
Overdiagnosis of malaria hurts the patient (and you and me)
1 Comment Published by naman February 21st, 2008 in Diagnosis, Drug resistanceMuch of the world still diagnoses malaria clinically (based on symptoms alone without testing for the presence of the parasite). Recently, a Liverpool team working in Mozambique examined the cost to individual patients resulting from the clinical diagnosis of malaria (Malaria Journal – open access). The findings were striking but certainly not surprising. 23 percent [...]
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