Tag: Disease in the Developing World

Self-sterilizing microneedles revolutionizing vaccination and drug deliveryCredit: University of South Australia Vaccinations are the world's frontline defence against infectious diseases ...

Now, with an unprecedented level of accuracy, an international team of researchers, led by Dr Moritz Kramer at the University ...

A rapidly evolving new subspecies of the cryptosporidium parasite - a leading cause of diarrhoeal disease in children worldwide - ...

P. falciparum parasites can develop drug resistance by epigenetic changes in clag3 gene expressionCredit: Mira et al, 2019 Resistance to ...

Three-fold risk increase of respiratory diseases from crop residue burning; Economic loss estimated to be nearly USD 30 billion annually ...

A PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases press releaseCredit: Lee, et al (2019) Dengue fever is a major public health concern in ...

Credit: Rahim et al. (2019) Vaccines that induce protective T-cell responses could protect against members across the filovirus family, according ...

The 2015-2016 El Niño event brought weather conditions that triggered regional disease outbreaks throughout the world, according to a new ...

Credit: Professor Melita Gordon New research by the University of Liverpool and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine shows that vaccination ...

Credit: Photo by US Army Flight Operations Specialist 4 John Crivello in 1969 URBANA, Ill. - During the Vietnam War, ...

Applying antimalarial drugs to bed nets could lead to drop in malaria transmission Mosquitoes that landed on surfaces coated with ...

The review, published in Nature, outlines how healthcare workers in low-income countries, like those in sub-Saharan Africa, could use existing ...

The AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG), the world's largest and longest-established HIV research network, funded by NIAID at the U.S. ...

A new World Health Organization (WHO) strategy aims to halve the impact of snakebite, which affects 5.4 million people globally ...

Eradication goalCredit: UT Arlington A biologist at The University of Texas at Arlington is using a new grant to look ...

New Haven, Conn. - Researchers at Yale and at the National Center for Cardiovascular Disease in China just quantified a ...

Transferring technology to South Africa for on-site vaccine production In an effort to produce vaccines where they are needed most, ...

Bats don't only carry the deadly Ebola virus, but are also a reservoir for a new type of influenza virus. ...

A genomic analysis suggests African hunting and gathering groups diverged from a common ancestry, and underscores the role of infectious ...

Program spotlights scientific innovation across African continent February 15, 2019 (Washington, D.C.) - Johnson & Johnson Innovation today announced five ...