NTDs in the News
8.24.10
Lancet seminar: lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis
National electronic Library for Medicines
This Lancet seminar gives a comprehensive overview of these tropical helminth infections.
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8.23.10
PLoS ONE is launched by the Public Library of Science
Public Library of Science
Until now, online scientific journals have been little more than electronic versions of the printed copy.
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8.20.10
Can Intestinal Parasites Help Crohn's Disease?
Suite101
Obsession with cleanliness has cleared out intestinal parasites that tamed the immune response; hence the rise in autoimmune disorders like Crohn's disease.
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8.19.10
Ugandan Man Helps Rid His Community of Onchocerciasis
The Carter Center
In the early 1990s, fear dominated the community of Jawe parish, found in Mbale district, Uganda.
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8.17.10
Mapping this Wormy World
Biology News Net
Maps showing the distribution and prevalence of worm infections in every African country will be launched today (17 August).
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8.17.10
MMV joins Pool for Open Innovation against neglected tropical diseases
The Medical News
The Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) today became the first product development partnership (PDP) to contribute intellectual property to the Pool for Open Innovation against Neglected Tropical Dise
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8.13.10
Lancet Article Highlights Devastating Lack of Treatment for Neglected Tropical Disease in Africa
The Lancet
In an editorial in the August 13 edition of The Lancet, authors representing the Sabin Vaccine Institute, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Imperial College of London call for increased supplies of praziquantel for the African continent. Praziquantel is the only commercially available treatment for human schistosomiasis, a devastating neglected tropical disease (NTD) affects an estimated 200-600 million people worldwide, with the vast majority of cases occurring in Africa, and causes chronic anemia and inflammation associated with severe disability among children, adolescents and young adults. Schistosomiasis produces a disease burden that could exceed that of malaria.
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7.23.10
NTD Control Program 2010 Annual Meeting
The Access Project
Kigali, Rwanda — The Ministry of Health, in partnership with Columbia University’s Access Project, organized the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) 2010 annual workshop, which was held at Laico Umubano Hotel on July 20, 2010.
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7.19.10
Gulf Coast must remain vigilant for new health threat
The Houston Chronicle
As world attention focuses on the BP oil disaster and its environmental and health consequences for people living on the Gulf Coast of the United States, we must also remain vigilant for a new infecti
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7.15.10
One stop shop for NTD's in the US
PLos Neglected Diseases
The last issue of PLos includes an interesting editorial by Dr. Peter Hotez that highlights the need of a school solely dedicated to Neglected Diseases in our country.
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7.12.10
Vaccines over missiles
By Dr. Peter Hotez, Published in the Ottawa Citizen
Last month, the world learned of the intention by Myanmar, also known as Burma, to join Iran, North Korea and Syria as the first nations in this century to initiate nuclear weapons development program
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7.9.10
New Potential TB Drugs To Be Investigated Against Multiple Neglected Diseases
Medical News Today
The Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) and Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) announced a unique first-ever royalty-free license agreement between two not-for-profit dru
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7.7.10
New Potential TB Drugs to be Investigated Against Multiple Neglected Diseases
http://www.dndi.org/press-releases/722-tbi-dndi-collaboration.html
A Unique Collaboration: TB Alliance and DNDi Enter Cross-Disease License Agreement to Speed Development of Novel Therapies
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7.6.10
IMA World Health Treats More Than 1 million Haitians in June Mass Drug Administration
PRWeb
IMA World Health treated more than 1 million Haitians in June for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD).
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7.1.10
Low spending on Health in the Sri Lanka Budget could lead to low intelligence (IQ)
Disease and intelligence
Mens sana in corpore sano
Parasites and pathogens may explain why people in some parts of the world are cleverer than those in others
Jul 1st 2010
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6.29.10
Community-Based Education Strengthens Campaign for Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis
Science Daily
ScienceDaily (June 29, 2010) — Community-based lymphatic filariasis education in Orissa State, India, increased treatment compliance from around 50% to up to 90%, according to a study published June
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6.29.10
G8 Nations Commit $5B For Maternal, Child Health; Additional $2.3B Committed From Other Countries, Foundations
Medical News Today
G8 nations, plus other countries and private organizations, have committed at total of $7.3 billion to improve maternal and child health in the developing world, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
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6.29.10
Do Parasites Make You Dumber?
What can you do to make your kids smarter? Keeping them healthy might help. A new study suggests that worldwide differences in intelligence can be explained by disparities in infectious disease.
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6.28.10
Dengue Re-emerges in U.S., Spurring Race for Vaccine
For the first time in more than 65 years, dengue has returned the continental United States, according to an advisory the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued in late May.
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