Model to predict cholera outbreaks earlier, better
A new cholera prediction model can warn of outbreaks 11 months in advance and also describe the possible severity.
14 February 2012 | EN

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A new cholera prediction model can warn of outbreaks 11 months in advance and also describe the possible severity.
14 February 2012 | EN
Critics have questioned the methods of a study claiming that the WHO has greatly underestimated the number of malaria fatalities.
10 February 2012 | EN
Pakistan's medical laboratory workers need better biosafety awareness says a new study.
8 February 2012 | EN
A drug undergoing clinical trials for sleeping sickness could also treat leishmaniasis, say researchers who have tested it on mice.
6 February 2012 | EN
Science institutions from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay are collaborating on the study of high-impact diseases in the region.
6 February 2012 | ES
Unprecedented collaboration by drug firms, ambitious targets and more funds form part of a new fight against neglected tropical diseases.
The Argentinean government and a public-private consortium have allocated US$1.2 million for the improvement of early diagnosis of Chagas disease in newborns.
26 January 2012 | ES
A modelling study of a promising malaria vaccine finds low transmission areas would benefit the most from mass vaccination.
25 January 2012 | EN
China's largest biotechnology company and a non-profit product developer are teaming up to develop new tuberculosis vaccines.
The origin of two genetic sub-types of the malaria parasite P. falciparum in South America has been traced back slaves arriving from Africa, a study says.
24 January 2012 | ES
The key malaria drug, artemisinin, can now be produced in greater quantities ― from a waste material of the current production process.
23 January 2012 | EN
Indian health officials are describing hard to treat cases of TB as 'extra XDR-TB' amid warnings that the disease is not being managed properly.
19 January 2012 | EN
A Nicaraguan study is helping scientists understand why a second dengue fever infection can be more severe than the first one.
16 January 2012 | ES
A retrospective study of tweets on the 2010 cholera epidemic in Haiti found them broadly as good as official data at predicting its progress.
An award-winning, rapid test for hepatitis C that uses gold nanoparticles could be especially useful in the Middle East and North Africa.
A vaccine candidate that exploits how the malaria parasite enters human red blood cells is set to enter safety trials.
Source: BBC News
22 December 2011 | EN
Silk 'chips' capable of diagnosing a range of diseases in a matter of minutes could be ready for market by early 2013.
The WHO recommends supplying iron-deficient children with micronutrients, but a study finds this may increase their risk of malaria.
15 December 2011 | EN
Once malaria patients are in intensive care, Plasmodium vivax is just as likely to kill as P. falciparum, according to researchers.
A big cut in donor commitments to the global health fund has forced the agency to cancel new programmes.