Tag: Disease in the Developing World

The relatively slow pace of neonatal and under-5 mortality reduction could prevent most countries in sub-Saharan Africa from achieving targets ...

The results could help remove one of the barriers to treatment scale up and bring new hope for people with ...

Barcelona/Rio de Janeiro, 14 March 2019 - A two-week treatment course for adult patients with chronic Chagas disease showed, when ...

First evidence that repeated mass administration of ivermectin can reduce malaria incidence in children aged five or younger without an ...

An efficient programCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Introducing Hepatitis B vaccine in preadolescents meant a decline in the disease incidence rate ...

Pioneering technology could pave the way for improved newborn vaccines A global team of scientists have mapped the developmental pathway ...

Deaths due to communicable diseases, transport injuries, drowning and childhood cancers are common for children in all four countries March ...

Today's adolescents make up the largest generation in history, but they encounter greater health challenges than 25 years ago Today's ...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Youth living in the slums of Uganda who are infected with both HIV and sexually transmitted ...

Researchers from the University of Bath are developing a new tool for detecting the presence of Dengue fever early on, ...

Credit: Photo from Thomas Unnasch, University of South Florida Your advance look at three new studies in the American Journal ...

ISN World Congress of Nephrology 2019 highlights glomerulonephritis and integrated end-stage kidney disease Brussels, February 14, 2019 - The upcoming ...

Credit: Emily Lund, Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health. For decades, one of the strongest weapons against malaria ...

New study reveals wide variations in how well or poorly people age; United States ranks 54th between Iran (53rd) and ...

NEW YORK, NY (March 8, 2019)--TB Alliance's new drug application (NDA) for the novel tuberculosis (TB) drug candidate pretomanid has ...

Credit: Christensen, et al. (CC BY 4.0, 2019) In diffuse cutaneous leishmanisis (DCL), a rare form of leishmaniasis, parasites grow ...

The nanoparticle platform for this respiratory syncytial virus study will be applied to vaccine research on flu, HIV, and more; ...

By combining artificial intelligence and hyperspectral imaging, we can make sure facilities are clean during norovirus and flu season -- ...

Unitaid has awarded a US$25.3 million grant to the Barcelona Institute for Global Health for a project that seeks to ...

Downing a casein shake just before sleep increases muscle mass and strength gains from resistance training, without 'making you fat' ...