Tag: Disease in the Developing World

Catch-up vaccination may be efficient means for controlling epidemics in big cities with large migrant populations February 14, 2019 -- ...

Scientific partnerships and opportunities Leading experts from the field of food and nutrition security will present findings from its recently ...

Cost-effective biosensor provides immediate and accurate resultsCredit: UBC Okanagan A handheld 'tricorder' that can test for biological contamination in real-time ...

Task sharing in Sierra Leone -- teaching emergency surgery to health officers -- can help improve healthcare in a country ...

Model is likely cost-effective and greatly increases reporting of vital statisticsCredit: Doreen Nabukalu, M.P.H. Chapel Hill, NC - Training community ...

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 13, 2019 - A high proportion of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) cases can be cured in conflict-affected communities with ...

Early-career researchers living and working in Bangladesh, Bolivia, the Gambia, Nepal and Palestine have been recognized for their work in ...

Credit: Florida Atlantic University Accessible, connected, and computationally powerful, smartphones aren't just for "selfies" anymore. They have emerged as powerful ...

Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT Press Office Biologist Aleksey Belikov from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology has proposed that rapid progression ...

Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease A detailed analysis of blood samples from Ebola patients in Sierra Leone ...

Analyses of Plasmodium vivax parasite RNAs help understand transmission and antimalarial treatment response BALTIMORE, MD., Feb. 8 - Scientists at ...

Vaccination policies against the diseaseCredit: University of Barcelona Researchers of the University of Barcelona (UB) have analysed, with massive sequencing ...

Credit: Courtesy of Kathrin Zuercher Around ten million people around the world develop tuberculosis every year and 1.5 million people ...

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 7, 2019 - The higher a person's immunity to dengue virus, the lower their risk of Zika infection, ...

Credit: Feldmeier, et al. (2018) Tungiasis, a tropical disease associated with poverty, is caused by the penetration of female sand ...

New Haven, Conn. -- When the Zika virus arrived in the Americas in early 2015, it struck hard, infecting 73% ...

Credit: Choi, et al. (CC BY 4.0, 2018) Infections by the mosquito-borne Mayaro virus (MAYV) have largely been restricted to ...

Credit: Nita Bharti, Penn State A massive release of passive-surveillance satellite data of nighttime lights could help researchers in fields ...

Credit: Children's National Health System A therapy derived from the eggs of parasitic worms helps to protect against one of ...

Vitamin D has been found to speed up the clearance of tuberculosis (TB) bacteria from the lungs of people with ...