topnaman | Malaria blog

This 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 […]

Much 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 […]