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Tackling malaria
8 hours ago

A revival of this system improves surveillance of all events and indicates to the community the physical availability of health functionaries. Currently, private medical care, though very strong in its presence, hardly follows the protocol in malaria...
UK & World News: Captain Conman: Website cad fleeced Julie out of £11K and left her life in ruins
9 hours ago

But she heard nothing for three months. Julie added: "I was angry and upset - I was due to go on holiday to Egypt and needed the money." Then a man claiming to be a Ghanaian friend called Eric rang Julie and said Wescott was in hospital in Libya with...
Education: Taking a More Holistic Approach to Global Health Education
17 hours ago

Or it might have included sailing to the West Indies to help a team of researchers investigate something called filariasis, a pathogen that seemed to be spread by mosquitoes. It could even have meant heading to Africa to help combat outbreaks of...
Real Life: Single mum tricked out of £11,000 by website conman who said he was an Army captain stranded in Libya
21 hours ago

But she heard nothing for three months. Julie added: “I was angry and upset – I was due to go on holiday to Egypt and needed the money.” Then a man claiming to be a Ghanaian friend called Eric rang Julie and said Wescott was in hospital in Libya with...
80% of deliveries take place at home, says PMA, among other startling statistics
1 day ago

A total of 96,000 lady health workers were trained and deployed in rural areas and eight million children were immunized. Various health awareness programmes, including those focusing on HIV/Aids, malaria, tuberculosis and hepatitis were also organised.
New combo of chemo and well-known malaria drug delivers double punch to tumors
1 day ago

Amaravadi will give a presentation on the role of autophagy in fighting cancer at the annual American Association for Advancement of Science meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. His lab and others have demonstrated that adding hydroxychloroquine...
New combo of chemo and well-known malaria drug delivers double punch to tumors
1 day ago

Blocking autophagy -- the process of "self-eating" within cells -- is turning out to be a viable way to enhance the effectiveness of a wide variety of cancer treatments. Specifically, blocking the action of an acidic inner cell part, which acts like a...
Nigeria's Abandoned Youth: Are They Potential Recruits for Militants?
1 day ago

In a small stone, tin-roof building in Regassa in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, in a room whose walls are decorated with slates inscribed with Koranic verses, Adulai, 15, lies on a mat, feverish with malaria and typhoid. His younger brother,...
Malaria drug passes first clinical test
1 day ago

The treatment was first developed at Industrial Research Ltd in Lower Hutt. The company's principal scientist, Gary Evans, says the new treatment effectively starves to death the parasite responsible for malaria within seven days. Dr Evans says...
Climate health costs: Bug-borne ills, killer heat
1 day ago

(Reuters) - Tree-munching beetles, malaria-carrying mosquitoes and deer ticks that spread Lyme disease are three living signs that climate change is likely to exact a heavy toll on human health. These pests and others are expanding their ranges in a...
Ban the antimalarial drug Mefloquine (Lariam)
1 day ago

However, it has drastic side effects in many users. Some are psychological, including problems sleeping, cases of worsening depression, and even suicide. Other side effects are physical, and can range anywhere from heart palpitations and chest pain to...
Growing faith: St. Mary of the Knobs has room to flourish with new church building
1 day ago

St. Mary of the Knobs is the oldest church in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and was founded in 1823. The church has had four structures and the new church sits less than a mile from where the original log cabin church sat. The church was founded by...
Ban on using mobile phone during meetings
1 day ago

Morover, commissioner of the corporation Harish Kumar K made it clear that malaria will be fully controlled in next few years it best possible way. Furthermore the reports said that the corporation would reserve special funds in its 2012-13 budget to...
Injured TFG Soldiers Seek Treatment in Nairobi
1 day ago

I thank the KDF forces who immediately picked us from the front line to thishospital. We really appreciate the way they have treated us in the battle field. They also offer support to the locals in the areas we have liberated. They offer first aid and...
Three Part Harmony: Clean Energy, Health, and MDGs
2 days ago

This pledge became the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) to be achieved by 2015. Health is at the heart of the MDG’s with three goals related directly to health: reduce child mortality, improve material health and combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and...
Portrait of a Lady, Shrouded in Mystery
2 days ago

When Sen. Thomas F. Bayard told her that a bungled "peacemaking" effort by the State Department, after a war between Chile and Peru, had actually been a maneuver on behalf of speculators in Peruvian guano, Clover told Beacon Street that "there seems to...
George Washington slept (fitfully) here
2 days ago

He lost more battles than he won, but was the only commander in chief who led his army in battle. As president, the press corps hated him almost as much as he hated Thomas Jefferson whom he detested. He never lived in Washington, D.C. , is credited...
CDRI underlines its 2011 progress on 61st annual day
2 days ago

Meanwhile, Tushar Kanti Chakraborty, director, CDRI, shared information on the progress of various research and development (R&D) activities of the last year at the institute. "Sustained progress has been made in the development of 'candidate drugs and...
View: WHO Should Regulate Alcohol
2 days ago

Because alcohol kills 2.5 million people annually -- more than AIDS, malaria or tuberculosis -- the World Health Organization should regulate alcohol at the global level, enforcing such regulations as a minimum drinking age, zero-tolerance drunken...
Inbrief
2 days ago

As many as 7.07 lakh mosquito-nets will be distributed in eight districts of the State. The work of distributing long-lasting impregnated nets in tribal-dominated areas has been started by the Health Department from Nalchha village in Dhar district. ...

About Malaria

Wikipedia

Malaria is a vector-borne infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites. It is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Each year, there are approximately 515 million cases of malaria, killing between one and three million people, the majority of whom are young children in Sub-Saharan... Full Article