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Risk-averse researchers put mothers' lives at risk

Researchers are putting women's lives at risk by being too cautious about trialling drugs during pregnancy, say Nicholas J. White and colleagues.

Source: PLoS Medicine

24 June 2008 | EN | 中文

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Adopt TB approach to tackle chronic diseases

Non-communicable disease treatment has a lot to learn from tuberculosis control programmes, say Anthony D. Harries and colleagues.

Source: PLoS Medicine

17 June 2008 | EN | 中文

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Surgery is cheap and effective, but donors neglect it

Doruk Ozgediz and Robert Riviello make the case for devoting more resources to easily treated surgical conditions in Africa.

Source: PLoS Medicine

10 June 2008 | EN

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Public-private partnerships fail to involve African researchers

Public-private partnership organisations have failed to include African researchers on an equal basis, say T. J. Tucker and M. W. Makgoba.

Source: Science

23 May 2008 | EN | 中文

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Stable support needed for African malaria networks

African malaria research networks have helped scientists combat the disease, but they need more stable support and longer-term funding, says Thomas Egwang.

14 May 2008 | EN

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UNAIDS out of touch and should be closed down

The UN programme for HIV/AIDS is out of touch with reality and hindering health capacity building, argues Roger England.

Source: BMJ

12 May 2008 | EN | 中文

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Ignoring hypertensive disease a travesty

Hypertensive disease kills large numbers in developing countries, but efforts to tackle it are lacking, say Stephen MacMahon and colleagues.

Source: The Lancet

7 May 2008 | EN | 中文

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Vaccine success signals rethink in pneumonia care

Successful vaccination against the main causes of pneumonia will complicate care of remaining cases, say J. Anthony G. Scott and Mike English.

Source: PLoS Medicine

1 May 2008 | EN | 中文

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Eliminating blinding trachoma 'entirely possible'

Elimination of blinding trachoma is entirely possible by 2020, says the New England Journal of Medicine.

Source: New England Journal of Medicine

24 April 2008 | EN | 中文

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Current malaria policy 'needs reconsideration'

Malaria policy needs to be changed if WHO targets are to be met, warn Ephantus J. Muturi, Peter Burgess and Robert J. Novak.

Source: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

17 April 2008 | EN | 中文

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Research deficiencies 'delaying HIV prevention'

Weaknesses in HIV research design have hindered progress in identifying prevention strategies, say Stephen W. Lagakos and Alicia R. Gable.

Source: New England Journal of Medicine

16 April 2008 | EN | 中文

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Stable funding system needed for neglected diseases

Peter J. Hotez believes the establishment of a new financing mechanism is vital for the control and eradication of neglected diseases.

Source: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

31 March 2008 | EN | 中文

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Priorities for controlling urban dengue

Amy C. Morrison and colleagues outline key preventative measures for controlling the Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads disease.

Source: PLoS Medicine

27 March 2008 | EN | ES | 中文

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Prizes, not prices, to stimulate antibiotic R&D

With the worldwide growth of resistance, new antibiotics are increasingly needed. But R&D can be expensive and time-consuming, says James Love.

26 March 2008 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

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Reducing antibiotics not enough to stem resistance

Reducing antibiotic use is not enough to curb the rise of resistance in the developing world, say Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Syed Rehan Ali.

26 March 2008 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

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Antibiotic resistance calls for better diagnostic labs

Tackling antibiotic resistance requires well-run diagnostic laboratories, says Pradeep Seth.

26 March 2008 | EN | ES | FR

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Uphill struggle against tuberculosis

Africa and India are struggling in the fight against tuberculosis, say Richard E. Chaisson, Neil A. Martinson and Vikram Paralkar.

Source: New England Journal of Medicine

17 March 2008 | EN | 中文

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Create open-source databases for clinical trials

Greg W. Fegan and Trudie A. Lang urge the use of open-source database systems to increase the scope and variety of clinical trials.

Source: PLoS Medicine

13 March 2008 | EN | ES | 中文

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Surveillance the secret weapon against malaria

Mark Grabowsky argues that the billions of dollars invested in the fight against malaria are wasted without systematic disease surveillance.

Source: Nature

5 March 2008 | EN | 中文

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Convert Guantanamo to disease research centre

Peter J. Hotez argues that the Guantanamo camp should be converted into a research institute for Latin America's neglected diseases.

Source: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

29 February 2008 | EN | ES | 中文