Tag: Disease in the Developing World

A systematic review and meta-analysis led by ISGlobal concludes that there is not sufficient evidence to support the safety of ...

Credit: Mick Urbaniak Lancaster University researchers have shed light on how the parasite which causes sleeping sickness multiples inside its ...

Credit: Mallur Madhusudhan, CC BY 4.0 Nipah virus, which is transmitted to humans from bats and pigs, has a high ...

Credit: Prof. Steve Tor, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Tsetse flies infest an estimated 10 million square kilometers of sub-Saharan ...

Modeling mercury release from soil erosion could help mine-heavy, deforested regions create helpful policiesCredit: Axel Berky, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. ...

Credit: NIAID WHAT: Efforts to prevent new HIV transmissions in the United States must be accompanied by advances in addressing ...

Credit: QUT A drug used to treat high blood pressure may alleviate anxiety induced by long-term heavy alcohol use, and ...

Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- Researchers from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University are building and expanding global relationships and collaborations ...

Credit: World Health Organisation The tropical disease Leishmaniasis is being tackled by catching female sand flies who carry the parasite ...

Researchers at Göttingen University investigate relationship between our body size and human global calorie demandCredit: Lutz Depenbusch The amount of ...

Credit: Dr. Simone Bagnis/University of Plymouth Poor sanitation leads to untreated wastewater entering river systems in many countries where industrialisation ...

Credit: Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) DNA from 75-year old eradicated European malaria parasites uncovers the historical spread of one ...

New study by University of Göttingen shows reduction of child undernutrition through supermarkets in KenyaCredit: E M Meemken Hunger and ...

Credit: University of Warwick Since 2015 Malaria has resurged and typical bednets treated with insecticide are losing their efficiency due ...

Study with the CRISPR/Cas9 editing technologyCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Researchers from the University of Barcelona (UB) and the August Pi ...

Study leaders publish results from NIH-DRC-WHO clinical trial of four experimental therapiesCredit: ALIMA The investigational therapeutics mAb114 and REGN-EB3 offer ...

New approach could be used to detect and kill viruses in the bloodstreamCredit: Image courtesy of Xing Wang TROY, N.Y. ...

Credit: WSU Promoting healthcare strategies that target both human and animal populations at the same time can save money, participant ...

ESMO Asia Congress 2019Credit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Singapore, 23 November 2019 - Combination therapy with the PD-L1 ...

A small-town girl with a whole lot of passion prepares for medical mission to ColombiaCredit: Texas Heart Institute/Joe Brewton HOUSTON ...