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Public Release: 13-Sep-2012
 Journal of American Chemical SocietyIU chemist develops new synthesis of most useful, yet expensive, antimalarial drug In 2010 malaria caused an estimated 665,000 deaths, mostly among African children. Now, chemists at Indiana University have developed a new synthesis for the world's most useful antimalarial drug, artemisinin, giving hope that fully synthetic artemisinin might help reduce the cost of the live-saving drug in the future. 
Indiana University
Contact: Steve Chaplin
Public Release: 13-Sep-2012
PLOS PathogensScripps Research scientists reveal how deadly virus silences immune system Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have determined the structure of a critical protein from the Marburg virus, a close cousin of Ebola virus. These viruses cause similar diseases and are some of the deadliest pathogens on the planet, each killing up to 90 percent of those infected.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at The Scripps Research Institute
Contact: Mika Ono
Public Release: 13-Sep-2012
'Saving brains' in developing countries: $11.8 million for innovative ideas worldwide With the goal of helping children in resource-poor countries meet their full intellectual potential, 11 projects in Asia, Africa and South America will receive in all some $11.8 million from the Government of Canada via Grand Challenges Canada to test innovations to address four impediments to cognitive development -- inadequate nurturing, nutrition deficiency, premature birth, and infection.
Grand Challenges Canada
Contact: Terry Collins
Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesGenetic make-up of children explains how they fight malaria infection Researchers from Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center and University of Montreal have identified several novel genes that make some children more efficient than others in the way their immune system responds to malaria infection. Contact: William Raillant-Clark
Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
LancetDengue Vaccine Initiative welcomes latest progress in vaccine development Today, the Dengue Vaccine Initiative welcomed new clinical trial results that reveal progress in developing the first-ever dengue vaccine. In a publication in the Lancet, pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur reported results from the first study conducted to evaluate the efficacy of any dengue vaccine candidate against clinical dengue disease in a population naturally exposed to dengue. Contact: Johanna Harvey
Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
Journal of Antimicrobial ChemotherapyDiet could combat adverse side-effects of quinine Scientists at the University of Nottingham say adverse side-effects caused by the anti-parasitic drug quinine in the treatment of malaria could be controlled by what we eat. Contact: Lindsay Brooke
Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
European Heart JournalResults from world's first registry of pregnancy and heart disease Results from the world's first registry of pregnancy and heart disease have shown that most women with heart disease can go through pregnancy and delivery safely, so long as they are adequately evaluated, counseled and receive high quality care. However, the research published in the European Heart Journal shows there are important differences: Mothers and babies in developing countries are more likely to die than those in developed countries, and women with cardiomyopathy also have worse outcomes.
European Society of Cardiology
Contact: Emma Mason
Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
PLOS MedicineBlood transfusion services in Africa should suit local contact -- funders take note "Flexibility and pragmatism are necessary to reduce the unacceptably high rates of unnecessary deaths in Africa because blood for transfusion is lacking," according to a group of 20 international authors from high-, middle- and low-income countries writing in this week's PLOS Medicine. Contact: Sumrina Yousufzai
Public Release: 10-Sep-2012
Journal of Clinical Investigation'Humanized' mice developed at OHSU enable malaria research breakthrough at Seattle BioMed A novel human liver-chimeric mouse model developed at Oregon Health & Science University and Yecuris Corporation has made possible a research breakthrough at Seattle Biomedical Research Institute that will greatly accelerate studies of the most lethal forms of human malaria.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, US Department of Defense
Contact: Tamara Hargens-Bradley
Public Release: 10-Sep-2012
LancetIndia's patent laws under pressure: The Lancet special report In a special report published in the Lancet today, researchers from Queen Mary, University of London argue that pending cases against India's patent laws threaten public health and misinterpret international intellectual property agreements. Contact: Emma Mason
Public Release: 10-Sep-2012
Funding for neglected global diseases research at UBC exceeds $20 million Researchers with the Neglected Global Diseases Initiative at the University of British Columbia have attracted more than $20 million in funding to find ways to eliminate diseases and conditions that kill millions of people in developing countries worldwide.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Canadian International Development Agency
Contact: Kishor Wasan
Public Release: 10-Sep-2012
NatureRV144 vaccine efficacy increased against certain HIV viruses Scientists used genetic sequencing to discover new evidence that the first vaccine shown to prevent HIV infection in people also affected the viruses in those who did become infected. Viruses with two genetic "footprints" were associated with greater vaccine efficacy. The results were published today in the online edition of the journal Nature.
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, US Deptartment of Defense
Contact: Lisa Reilly
Public Release: 9-Sep-2012
Nature MedicineOHSU research helps explain why an AIDS vaccine has been so difficult to develop New research by Oregon Health & Science University scientists explains a decades-old mystery as to why slightly weakened versions of the monkey AIDS virus were able to prevent subsequent infection with the fully virulent strain, but were too risky for human use, and why severely compromised or completely inactivated versions of the virus were not effective at all.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Jim Newman
Public Release: 7-Sep-2012
Zoonoses and Public HealthPrecautions for tick-borne disease extend 'beyond Lyme' This year's mild winter and early spring were a bonanza for tick populations in the eastern United States. Reports of tick-borne disease rose fast.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Cheryl Dybas
Public Release: 6-Sep-2012
Advocacy toolkit launched to halt the 'runaway train' of cancer in Africa In order to try to create a better recognition of the rising burden of cancer in Africa where it is most needed –in Africa– a 'toolkit' for local cancer advocates will be launched Saturday, Sept. 15 at a conference. Contact: Vanessa Pavinato
Public Release: 6-Sep-2012
14th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology Journal of Human Nutrition and DieteticsNew research: Soluble corn fiber plays important role in gut health and calcium absorption Two new research studies supported by Tate & Lyle, the global provider of specialty food ingredients and solutions, provide further evidence that certain higher-fiber diets can be well-tolerated, and that fiber may play an important role in supporting a healthy gut as well as promoting calcium absorption.
Tate & Lyle
Contact: Allison Parker
Public Release: 5-Sep-2012
Students create low-cost biosensor to detect contaminated water in developing nations Diarrheal disease is the second leading cause of death in children under five years old -- killing as many as 1.5 million children worldwide every year. These startling statistics from the World Health Organization point to the reason why a team of nine Arizona State University students is participating in the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition -- a global event that challenges students to design and build simple biological systems made from standard, interchangeable parts. Contact: Sandra Leander
Public Release: 5-Sep-2012
PLOS ONEThe best strategy to defeat HIV in South Africa Researchers at UCLA suggest a strategy being proposed by the World Health Organization to combat HIV in South Africa is badly flawed. Contact: Mark Wheeler
Public Release: 5-Sep-2012
New England Journal of MedicineCall for a new approach to fighting tuberculosis Each year, nearly two million people die from tuberculosis -- a treatable disease that has been brought under control in the United States, but continues to ravage other parts of the world. This health inequity should prompt a complete rethinking of the way tuberculosis is fought on a global level, argue Salmaan Keshavjee, M.D., Ph.D., and Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D., from Brigham and Women's Hospital. Their argument appears in an essay published Sept. 6 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Contact: Tom Langford
Public Release: 4-Sep-2012
Global health requires new dynamics, suggests science panel How can science better address global health crises? This week, Rita Colwell, Alice Dautry, Harvey Fineberg, and Kiyoshi Kurokawa discussed priorities and related topics at the 2012 Kavli Prize Science Forum, moderated by BBC's Pallab Ghosh. Contact: James Cohen
Public Release: 4-Sep-2012
Mobilization: An International JournalDeadly witch hunts targeted by grassroots women's groups Witch hunts are common and sometimes deadly in the tea plantations of Jalpaiguri, India. But a surprising source -- small groups of women who meet through a government loan program -- has achieved some success in preventing the longstanding practice, a Michigan State University sociologist found. Contact: Andy Henion
Public Release: 4-Sep-2012
PLOS Medicine'Benign' malaria key driver of human evolution in Asia-Pacific The malaria species rampant in the Asia-Pacific region has been a significant driver of evolution of the human genome, a new study has shown. An international team of researchers has shown that Plasmodium vivax malaria, the most prevalent malaria species in the Asia-Pacific, is a significant cause of genetic evolution that provides protection against malaria.
MalariaGen Consortium, National Health and Medical Research Council, National Institutes of Health, Veterans Affairs Office of Research and Development, AusAID, Victorian Government
Contact: williams@wehi.edu.au
Public Release: 4-Sep-2012
PLOS MedicineSoutheast Asian ovalocytosis protects against P. vivax malaria A multinational group of authors, led by Ivo Mueller from the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Australia and the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, have found a strong association between Southeast Asian ovalocytosis, an inherited disorder that affects the shape of red blood cells, and protection against malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax. Contact: Sumrina Yousufzai
Public Release: 4-Sep-2012
PLOS MedicineIncreased mortality in HIV-positive South African men versus women is unrelated to HIV/AIDS In South Africa, HIV-infected men who are receiving treatment with anti-HIV drugs (antiretroviral therapy) are almost a third more likely to die than HIV-positive women who are receiving similar treatment: however, these differences are likely to be due to gender differences in death rates in the general population rather than related to HIV, according to a study by a team of international researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine. Contact: Sumrina Yousufzai
Public Release: 3-Sep-2012
Environmental PollutionHigh levels of DDT in breast milk The highest levels ever of DDT in breast milk have been measured in mothers living in malaria-stricken villages in South Africa, where DDT has been sprayed indoors for many years to fight malaria. Contact: Henrik Kylin
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