Tag: Disease in the Developing World

Standard survey asks caregivers to recall diarrhea cases over past two weeks -- but a one-week recall period may be ...

INTE-AFRICA aims to scale up care for two chronic conditions whose prevalence is high and rising in sub-Saharan AfricaCredit: C. ...

Researchers at the University of York have shown that regulations on smokeless tobacco are still lacking, despite 181 countries agreeing ...

Credit: Photo courtesy of Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - The tsetse fly, also known as the "fly of death" ...

New studies suggest combining data around parasite genetics and human movement can improve malaria transmission mapping, and help with efforts ...

Researchers discovered the virus, which does not infect humans, in Kenya, 3,400 miles west of where it first appearedCredit: Paul ...

The partnership reflects the expanding synergism of Indo-Israel medical collaborationCredit: Ocular Discovery New Delhi, India - April 2, 2019 - ...

A new study suggests that it could be a common disorder in other rural communities in tropical and subtropical countriesCredit: ...

Innovative training steps up treatment for diabeticsCredit: University of South Australia It's gory, sticky and undoubtedly on the nose, but ...

The role of mosquitoes in spreading malaria is the biggest factor behind a recent study that found them to be ...

Credit: NIAID (CC BY 2.0, 2016) Mosquito-borne viruses, such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika, already threaten over a billion people ...

About 40 percent of the global population is at risk for contracting dengue - the most important mosquito-borne viral infection ...

WASHINGTON -- As many as a billion people could be newly exposed to disease-carrying mosquitoes by the end of the ...

The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) today announced that, for the first time, the U.S. Food ...

Tuberculosis (TB), an ancient and notoriously difficult disease to treat, has killed millions through the course of human history; and ...

Scientists propose revising the guidelines to take data from sub-Saharan Africa into account, reports the Journal of Hepatology Amsterdam, March ...

A quarter of people surveyed during active 2018 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo believed the virus was ...

Improved housing estimated to have doubled between 2000 and 2015 but nearly 50 percent of the urban population still living ...

Computers which are capable of teaching themselves to predict premature death could greatly improve preventative healthcare in the future, suggests ...

Populations with a high prevalence of AIDS-immunocompromised people are more likely to see the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, according ...