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Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
DNDi Latin America pledges 2013 Carlos Slim Health Award to chagas disease The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative Latin America today announced that it will pledge the US $100,000 Carlos Slim Health Award to Chagas disease, the leading parasitic killer of the Americas. Contact: Betina Moura
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
 Proceedings of the Royal Society BFighting disease from within the mosquito: New techniques to help halt the spread of disease Scientists have revealed a new technique to introduce disease-blocking bacteria into mosquitoes, with promising results that may halt the spread of diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and potentially malaria. Contact: Nerissa Hannink
Public Release: 9-Apr-2013
Circulation'Diseases of affluence' spreading to poorer countries High blood pressure and obesity are no longer confined to wealthy countries, a new study has found. 
Medical Research Council, NIH/National Institute for Health Research Imperial Biomedical Research Centres
Contact: Sam Wong
Public Release: 9-Apr-2013
World Vaccine CongressIDRI and Medicago to present data at the World Vaccine Congress IDRI, a Seattle-based non-profit research organization that is a leading developer of adjuvants used in vaccines combating infectious disease, and Medicago Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing highly effective and competitive vaccines based on proprietary manufacturing technologies and Virus-Like Particles, will present positive interim Phase I clinical results for their H5N1 Avian Influenza VLP vaccine candidate.
DARPA
Contact: Lee Schoentrup
Public Release: 9-Apr-2013
PLOS MedicineTreatment leads to near-normal life expectancy for people with HIV in South Africa In South Africa, people with HIV who start treatment with anti-AIDS drugs (antiretroviral therapy) have life expectancies around 80 percent of that of the general population provided that they start treatment before their CD4 count drops below 200 (cells per microliter), according to a study by South African researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine.
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Contact: Fiona Godwin
Public Release: 8-Apr-2013
DNDi welcomes the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT) The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), based in Geneva, Switzerland, and DNDi Japan, based in Tokyo, welcome the launch of the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund, an initiative supported by the Japanese government, several Japanese pharmaceutical companies, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Contact: Violaine Dällenbach
Public Release: 8-Apr-2013
Journal of Traumatic StressTranscendental Meditation significantly reduces posttraumatic stress in African refugees The Transcendental Meditation technique has been shown to lower posttraumatic stress in veterans of Vietnam and Iraq/Afghanistan wars. This is the first study to look at PTS in African war refugees. The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist scores in the TM group went from high PTS symptoms at baseline to a non-symptomatic level after 30-days TM practice, and remained low at 135-days, while scores in the control group trended upward from baseline to the two posttests.
David Lynch Foundation
Contact: Ken Chawkin
Public Release: 7-Apr-2013
Regional World Health Summit, Asia, Singapore NatureGlobal burden of dengue is triple current estimates The global burden of dengue infection is more than triple current estimates from the World Health Organization, according to a multinational study published today and part-funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Wellcome Trust
Contact: Jen Middleton
Public Release: 5-Apr-2013
DiabetologiaTreatments, not prevention, dominate diabetes research Research for diabetes is far more focused on drug therapies than preventive measures, and tends to exclude children and older people who have much to gain from better disease management, according to a Duke Medicine study.
US Food and Drug Administration
Contact: Sarah Avery
Public Release: 5-Apr-2013
PLOS ONEHighly lethal Ebola virus has diagnostic Achilles' heel for biothreat detection, scientists say By screening a library of a billion llama antibodies on live Ebola viruses in the Texas Biomedical Research Institute's highest biocontainment laboratory, scientists in San Antonio have identified a potential weakness in the make-up of these deadly agents that can immediately yield a sensitive test.
National Institutes of Health, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Texas Biomed
Contact: Joseph Carey
Public Release: 3-Apr-2013
NatureResearchers find potential map to more effective HIV vaccine By tracking the very earliest days of one person's robust immune response to HIV, researchers have charted a new route for developing a long-sought vaccine that could boost the body's ability to neutralize the virus.
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Sarah Avery
Public Release: 1-Apr-2013
GeneticsMosquito genetic complexity may take a bite out of efforts to control malaria A team of scientists from West Africa, the United States and the United Kingdom found that the mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, which was thought to be splitting into two completely new species, may actually have a more complex range of forms due to frequent inter-mating. The resulting hybrids, in sub-Saharan western Africa, may have implications for insecticide resistance and malaria parasite infectivity. Contact: Phyllis Edelman
Public Release: 27-Mar-2013
Journal of Human ResourcesSex discrimination begins in the womb Women in India are more likely to get prenatal care when pregnant with boys, according to groundbreaking research that has implications for girls' health and survival. Contact: Andy Henion
Public Release: 25-Mar-2013
International Journal of Gynecology & ObstetricsGhanaian pregnant women who sleep on back at increased risk of stillbirth Pregnant women in Ghana who slept on their back (supine sleep) were at an increased risk of stillbirth compared to women who did not sleep on their back, according to new research led by a University of Michigan researcher. Contact: Mary Masson
Public Release: 25-Mar-2013
Tobacco ControlSmokefree workplaces linked to smokefree homes in India Adults in India are substantially more likely to abstain from smoking at home if they are prohibited from smoking at work, a new study has found. Contact: Sam Wong
Public Release: 25-Mar-2013
TB Vaccines Third Global ForumGlobal scientific experts convene in Cape Town to report on progress toward tuberculosis vaccines At a time of growing global concern about the rising level of drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis in South Africa and worldwide, the world's top TB vaccine experts are meeting this week, the first time this scientific forum has been held in Africa, where they will present new research aimed at advancing development of vaccines against the deadly airborne disease. Contact: Jamie Rosen
Public Release: 25-Mar-2013
PediatricsNew urgency in battle against 'bound legs' disease The harm done by konzo -- a disease overshadowed by the war and drought it tends to accompany -- goes beyond its devastating physical effects to impair children's memory, problem solving and other cognitive functions.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Andy McGlashen
Public Release: 22-Mar-2013
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making JournalAPL novel method accurately predicts disease outbreaks Scientists from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory have developed a way to accurately predict dengue fever outbreaks several weeks before they occur.
Department of Defense
Contact: Gina Ellrich
Public Release: 22-Mar-2013
Scientific Translational MedicineMalaria drug treatment breakthrough An international study, involving researchers from Griffith University's Eskitis Institute, has discovered a molecule which could form the basis of powerful new anti-malaria drugs. Contact: Helen Wright
Public Release: 22-Mar-2013
'Water Security': Experts propose a UN definition on which much depends Calls have been growing for the UN Security Council to include water issues on its agenda. And there's rising international support for adopting "universal water security" as one of the Sustainable Development Goals -- a set of mid-term global objectives being formulated to succeed the UN's Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015). But what does "water security" mean? Marking World Water Day at UN Headquarters March 22, a common working definition was published, forged by UN and international experts from around the world. Contact: Terry Collins
Public Release: 22-Mar-2013
Environmental Health PerspectivesAdditional research must be done to ensure safety of pit latrines, new study says Pit latrines are one of the most common human excreta disposal systems globally, and their use is on the rise as countries aim to meet the sanitation-related target of the Millennium Development Goals. Strong evidence supports the use of these basic toilets as a way to improve human health. However, improperly designed pit latrines can actually allow disease-causing microbes or other contaminants to leach into the groundwater. Contact: Kathy Fackelmann
Public Release: 21-Mar-2013
Medical Devices: Evidence and ResearchLow-cost 'cooling cure' would avert brain damage in oxygen-starved babies When babies are deprived of oxygen before birth, brain damage can occur. Preventive treatment is not always available in developing nations. Johns Hopkins undergraduates have devised a low-tech $40 unit to provide protective cooling in the absence of hospital equipment that can cost $12,000.
Johns Hopkins University
Contact: Phil Sneiderman
Public Release: 21-Mar-2013
Frontiers announces launch of new open-access journal, Frontiers in Public Health Frontiers in Public Health is the third journal to be launched as part of Frontiers' drive to branch out into all scientific and medical fields across the academic tree. Contact: Gozde Zorlu
Public Release: 21-Mar-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesFindings to help in design of drugs against virus causing childhood illnesses New research findings may help scientists design drugs to treat a virus infection that causes potentially fatal brain swelling and paralysis in children.The virus, called enterovirus 71, causes hand, foot and mouth disease, and is common throughout the world. Contact: Emil Venere
Public Release: 20-Mar-2013
John Moores gives $2 million to Scripps Research to develop river blindness field test Philanthropist, businessman and community leader John Moores has given the Scripps Research Institute approximately $2 million to fund the development of a new field test for Onchocerciasis, or river blindness, a parasitic infection that affects tens of millions of people in Africa, Latin America and other tropical regions.
John Moores
Contact: Mika Ono
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