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Climate change and health

in Sox First, on May 14, 2009

...as the developed world. There will be an increase in insect-borne diseases such as dengue fever and malaria. But developed countries will be affected as well. Places like Australia, for instance, wil...

Google Likes To Steal Other's Thunder

in Wangtam, on May 3, 2009

...ogle Employee • Top 10 Battery Hacks, Tips, And Tricks • Is RSS Reading Dead? • 29 Twitter Apps for the iPhone Compared • The 100 Million Views Club: The Most Watched Viral Videos of All-Time?... ... • SKOUT - Matches | location-based mobile dating • Glearch: 3x the global search • Malaria No More | Ending Malaria Deaths • Private pensions and policy responses to the crisis • Sony's...

Gates Foundation World Malaria Day Blogger Teleconference

in Straightfromthedoc, on April 23, 2009

... © star5112 World Malaria Day is on April 25. In honor of the day, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has decided to host a blogger-exclusive teleconference today, Thursday, April 23 a...

Using mobile technology to improve medicine supply chain in Africa

in Supplychainer, on April 16, 2009

Zaragoza Logistics Center, a research institute dedicated to logistics and supply chain management in Spain, recently published the overview of an ongoing research about the use of mobile devices to improve medicine SCM in Africa. One of the many challenges in delivering medicines and health...

Ideas for social entrepreneurship in crisis times

in Audeamus - How dare we..., on March 22, 2009

...ough this one is less common, there is tremendous value in it. Right now 30 people are dying out of Malaria every hour (if I am not mistaken) and it's mostly not because the medicine is not there ...

Isolongifolenone: A Natural Repellent of Ticks and Mosquitoes

in The Biotech Weblog, on February 9, 2009

...ignificant potential as an inexpensive and safe repellent for protection of large human populations against blood-feeding arthropods." In addition, a new, patented method developed by the author... ...ter biting of mosquitoes and to repel ticks , both of which are known spreaders of diseases such as malaria, West Nile virus, and Lyme disease. The authors found that isolongifolenone deters the biti...

UNICEF: Spenden Sie - z.B. eine Milchziege oder Schulhefte

in Das Gesundheits-Weblog, on November 27, 2008

...iten. Beispiele für Ihre Hilfe: * Imprägniertes Moskitonetz zum Schutz vor Malaria 4 Euro * Babywaage für eine Gesundheitsstation 26,50 Euro * Milchziege für eine Familie 30 Euro Danke! ...

17. Weltdiabetestag am 14. November

in Mein Diabetes Blog, on October 5, 2008

...ankheit als ebenso große Gefahr für die Weltbevölkerung eingestuft wurde wie zum Beispiel Malaria oder Tuberkulose. Ziel dieses Tages ist es, Diabetes und seine Folgen in den Blickpunkt der Öffentli...

Interview mit Bastian Bechtle von "Elbpartner"

in web2weblog, on August 25, 2008

...eitrag zu Lotto King Karls Hit "(Liebe ist) …Wie Malaria" einreichen. Zu dem Hit gibt's noch kein richtiges Musikvideo, stattdessen eine Youtube-User-Collage. Wir denken, dass es genügen...

Welt-Malariatag: Was UNICEF verspricht

in Das Gesundheits-Weblog, on April 27, 2008

... Der Welt-Malariatag hat hier noch keine Würdigung erfahren, er war bereits am Freitag, 25. April. Ich beginne damit, zu berichten, wie UNICEF helfen will: So hilft UNICEF: UNICEF beschafft u...

PS3 To Get Online Video Service

in Wangtam, on April 22, 2008

- PS3 To Get Online Video Service - Spectec microSD WiFi Card - Picturesque 1.0.4 - ZombieURL - The #1 zombie-infected URL redirection service on the Web. - Undone: to do list / time tracking thing - The Rather Difficult Font Game - AngryJournalist.com - Why are you angry today? - 郑欣宜...

Weltgesundheitstag 2008 7. April: Klimawandel bedroht Gesundheit

in Das Gesundheits-Weblog, on April 5, 2008

...opas oder in Südafrika entlang der Küste des indischen Ozeans ist schon jetzt Malaria neu aufgetreten oder zurückgekehrt. Wenn sich die Temperatur erhöht, vermehren sich Stechmücken schneller und saug...

Babesiose: Hundemalaria

in pfotenundfell, on February 20, 2008

...ird immer mehr zu einer ernst zu nehmenden Gefahr, denn sie überträgt die Babesiose, die Hundemalaria. Früh genug erkannt, läßt sich die Krankheit noch gut behandeln. Symptome sind: Mattigkeit, Let...

Sea Cucumber Protein Kills Malaria Parasites in Mosquitos

in The Biotech Weblog, on December 23, 2007

... A research team genetically engineered mosquitoes which carry the malaria parasite to produce a lectin protein in their gut when feeding. The lethal protein, CEL-III, found in sea cucumbers, kills ...

Gesundes Burma ? Aber kein freies Burma - Birma - Myanmar! Bloggeraktion Free Burma

in Das Gesundheits-Weblog, on October 4, 2007

.... Das Land ist noch so arm, dass es kaum Müll produziert, der die Umwelt verschmutzen könnte. Malaria ist hingegen in Birmas Flachland ein Problem, in der Trockenzeit reicht jedoch oft die entsprechen...

Kinder zu dick - Seehofer startet Kampagne

in Das Gesundheits-Weblog, on September 28, 2007

...gesund. Die hauptsächliche Schwierigkeit, die ich hatte (die einzige?), war die Reaktion auf die Malaria-Prophylaxe; die Impfungen haben mir nichts ausgemacht. Jetzt wird wieder täglich aktuell geblog...

Unterwegs nach Malawi I: Die Vorbereitungen

in Das Reise-Weblog, on September 10, 2007

...rmer Aufwand an Impfungen (Typhus, hepatitis , Gelbfieber...), Prophylaxe (gegen Malaria) und Insektenschutz (mindestens 30 Prozent DEET-Anteil) notwendig, um überhaupt die physischen Herausford...

Aston-Martin Vantage Tackles World's Worst Roads to Promote Safety

in Classical Drives, on August 26, 2007

...where road deaths amongst the young are often killing as many as more familiar causes such as TB or malaria." This was no "great driving roads" jaunt. The pair crossed, says Classic Dr...

Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ): Anti-malarial, Anti-Rheumatoid Arthritis, Now Anti-Diabetes?

in Daily Diabetic, on July 11, 2007

...rogressively declined by as much as 77 percent after four years of treatment with HCQ, a common antimalarial medication that also is used for rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune disorders. Tha...

First Quick Test for Malaria: FDA-Cleared for Marketing

in Straightfromthedoc, on July 3, 2007

... Intended for laboratory use only, Binax NOW Malaria Test - the first authorized U.S. rapid test for malaria - has now been cleared by the US FDA for marketing. The Binax NOW test is signifi...

DNA: How the Biotech Revolution Is Changing the Way We Fight Disease

in The Biotech Weblog, on June 19, 2007

...t Frank H. Stephenson tells the story of how scientists on many fronts are succeeding in the battle against disease. According to Stephenson, efforts to understand the nature of disease, down to its ... ...ts tracks, from curing diabetes, and from preventing afflictions such as Alzheimer's, AIDS, and malaria," he says. "There is the sense that each gene we discover, each molecular pathway ...

Malaria-Risikogebiete: Geoinformationssystem hilft bei Reiseplanung

in kinkaa blog - das Blog zur Reisesuchmaschine, on June 17, 2007

... Ein interaktives Malariainformationssystem im Internet hat das Institut für Hygiene und Öffentliche Gesundheit des Universitätsklinikums Bonn konzipiert. Malaria - eine der weltweit häufigsten ...

G 8, Gipfel: AIDS-Hilfe enttäuschend gering

in Das Gesundheits-Weblog, on June 11, 2007

...) sollen laut G-8-Gipfel-Erklärung zur Bekämpfung der Epidemien HIV und Aids, Tuberkulose und Malaria in Afrika bereitgestellt werden. Völlig unklar bleibt jedoch, in welchem Zeitrahmen das Geld aufge...

Dengue Mosquito Genome Sequence

in The Biotech Weblog, on May 21, 2007

... yellow fever and dengue fever, which at ~1.38 Gbp is ~5-fold larger in size than the genome of the malaria vector, Anopheles gambiae. Nearly 50% of the Aedes aegypti genome consists of transposable e...

Malaria - europäische Allianz zur Bekämpfung

in Das Gesundheits-Weblog, on May 8, 2007

... Obwohl es schon ein paar Tage her ist, das Thema ist zu wichtig: Am Afrika-Malaria-Tag (25. April) hat die "Europäische Allianz gegen Malaria" gestartet. Die Allianz ist ein Zusammensch...

BIO 2007 on the Web

in The Biotech Weblog, on May 8, 2007

...r. The BIO 2007 summarizes the highlights on their web site, where you also view short videos on malaria , cotton in India , and Asian Biotechnology Centers . The BioVoice blogs in situ and pro...

Google aims to Knit Back the Web of Nature

in The Search Engine Weblog, on April 23, 2007

...e more benign native species on the back of climate change. Now able to thrive at higher altitudes, malaria-carrying mosquitoes, which cause 1.5 million to 2 millions deaths a year, are about to sprea...

Zecken übertragen Babesiose - die Hundemalaria

in pfotenundfell, on April 18, 2007

...rreliose. Dazu kommt aber immer mehr die Erlichiose und die babesiose , die auch als Hundemalaria bezeichnet wird. Für FSME gibt es noch immer ausgewiesene Risikogebiete, hauptsächlich in Österr...

Zinc Supplementation Reduce Mortality in Young Children

in Straightfromthedoc, on March 20, 2007

...eath in children aged 12-48 months by 18 %, on top of reduction in cases of pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria. But in children 1- 11 months of age, zinc supplements did not result in significant reduct...

Vor Fernreisen: Mückenschutz wird immer wichtiger

in Das Reise-Weblog, on March 16, 2007

...et. Gemeint ist damit insbesondere der amerikanische Kontinent, auf dem Krankheiten wie Malaria, das Dengue-Fieber aber auch der so genannte West-Nil-Virus lauern. Dabei kann man sich zum einen d...

The 2007 State of the Union Address

in IfEnergy, on January 25, 2007

...eople's money wisely; to solve problems, not leave them to future generations; to guard America against all evil; and to keep faith with those we have sent forth to defend us. (Applause.) We'... ...g our efforts to fight HIV/AIDS. I ask you to provide $1.2 billion over five years so we can combat malaria in 15 African countries. (Applause.) I ask that you fund the Millennium Challenge Account,...

Klimawandel: Tropenkrankheiten an der Ostsee

in Das Gesundheits-Weblog, on January 8, 2007

... Fluch der Karibik, Orientbeule, Malaria und ... und ... und Beim Baden in der Ostsee bekamen mehrere Menschen Krankheiten, die sonst nur in warmen Gegenden auftreten - Folgen des Klimawandels? &...

Somalia: Not der Kinder besonders groß

in Das Gesundheits-Weblog, on December 29, 2006

...m Dienstag (26.12.) brachte UNICEF 100.000 imprägnierte Moskitonetze zum Schutz vor Malaria in den Süden des Landes. Die hygienischen Bedingungen nach den Überschwemmungen sind sehr schlecht, C...

Plant-Derived Lead Compound Against Malaria Liver Stages

in The Biotech Weblog, on December 28, 2006

...ntified a compound called tazopsine , obtained from the a plant in madagascar , to be active against the liver stages of human and mouse malaria . One of its semisynthetic derivatives, NCP-... ...ed from the a plant in madagascar , to be active against the liver stages of human and mouse malaria . One of its semisynthetic derivatives, NCP-tazopsine , completely protected mice from a ...

The ROP18 Toxoplasma Virulence Gene

in The Biotech Weblog, on December 15, 2006

...author] notes that ROP18's primary role in T. gondii virulence suggests that similar genes in malaria parasites may be worthy of further study. These findings may pave the way in develop...

RTI International's Malaria Prevention Program

in Audeamus - How dare we..., on December 12, 2006

... Some recent good news from RTI International on a malaria prevention program it has instituted in South Africa: As part of an effort to prevent the spread of malaria, RTI International led a co...

GreeneChip DNA Chip for Detection of Pathogens

in The Biotech Weblog, on December 7, 2006

... chip. The device has been successfully tested in detecting a previously undiagnosed fatal case of malaria that occurred during an outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever in Angola in 2004-2005. They s...

PCR-Based Malaria Screening in Urine and Saliva Samples

in The Biotech Weblog, on November 23, 2006

... Researchers at the Johns Hopkins's Malaria Research Institute were able to develop a PCR-based method for detecting malaria -causing parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, in urine and saliva sa...

Amyris Biotechnologies Raises $20 Million in Series A Funding

in The Biotech Weblog, on October 12, 2006

...fill the promise of synthetic biology, ... In addition to its ongoing focus on creating a low-cost malaria drug , Amyris will add a new program aimed at renewably producing second-generation, high-pe...

And Africa's problem is ...?

in Audeamus - How dare we..., on August 31, 2006

...op problem, then millions are pumped into prevention without looking at treatment, or the next year Malaria is the big problem and the focus shifts, and so on and so on, but it ends up feeling like no...

India In Throes Of Diabetes Crisis

in Daily Diabetic, on August 30, 2006

...edical system in this country of 1.1bn people has traditionally focused on contagious diseases like malaria, polio and measles made chronic by a lack of food and proper sanitation for millions. But a...

Who Needs Harvard?

in The Universities Weblog, on August 15, 2006

... Yale these days anyway? Maybe they should have sent him to Mali for the summer to dig wells, fight malaria, give him something to write about in his essay. You're the college counselor at a publ...

DDT to make a comeback?

in Audeamus - How dare we..., on August 12, 2006

... and wildlife. Renewed support from global health agencies is helping to put DDT back in the battle against malaria. Most experts agree: DDT is the most effective weapon in the war against malaria. ... ...punk band , but dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro ethane. This time the WHO is recommending DDT to fight malaria . Global efforts to eradicate malaria have long relied heavily on DDT, short for dichloro-...

Male Circumcision Significantly Lowers Risk of HIV Infection

in Straightfromthedoc, on August 11, 2006

...d an assault to the male sex. These days (and in the future) the protective effect of circumcision against HIV (found in research studies) will become the best reason that will change parental expect... ...s charities, Richard Feachem, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, who believes that we are on the brink of a revolution in attitudes to circumcision. In a ...

Top Picks From Medical Rounds 2.44

in The Biotech Weblog, on July 25, 2006

...r Caffeine as a memory enhancer Implications of genetically modifying mosquitoes to control malaria and dengue I might have missed more. Do visit Medical Humanities and see for yourself...

Glykomik: Zucker für die Medizin

in Das Gesundheits-Weblog, on July 6, 2006

...n Krebszellen vor dem Immunsystem verstecken, man kann sie bald für neue Medikamente gegen Malaria, alzheimer oder Krebs verwenden. Glykomik nennt sich die entsprechende Forschungsrichtung -...

Wellcome Trust to Issue Sterling Bonds

in The Biotech Weblog, on July 6, 2006

... thrusts of the Wellcome Trust were the human genome sequencing, developing therapeutics for malaria and psychological disorders, as well as sponsoring the National Science Learning Centre whic...

Mosquito Repellent Compounds From The American Beautyberry

in The Biotech Weblog, on July 3, 2006

...ere found to be effective in repelling mosquitos, particularly those that transmit yellow fever and malaria. While the compounds could potentially help control mosquito-transmitted diseases, scientis...

Most Influential or a Popularity Contest?

in Bizinformer, on June 22, 2006

...ances for malaria research? Their $43 million grant is making a significant difference in the fight against malaria. ... ...ing things. Did you know that Bill and Melinda Gates contribute 1/3 of the world's finances for malaria research? Their $43 million grant is making a significant difference in the fight against ma...

Discovering "Exceptional Lives"

in Audeamus - How dare we..., on June 15, 2006

...s a force for sustainable development. *USAID announces funding for the Inter Religious Campaign Against Malaria in Africa. * Dr Iqbal Survé asks : "If India and China combined can bring 60... ...e for sustainable development. *USAID announces funding for the Inter Religious Campaign Against Malaria in Africa. * Dr Iqbal Survé asks : "If India and China combined can bring 600 millio...

Sustainable models of world banking

in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 1, 2006

...d the Sardar Sarover in India. *Also, see this commentary at TCS Daily on bad management of the malaria problem in Africa: In 1998, the World Bank along with other health agencies launched the ...

Artemisinin-Precursor Production from Genetically Modified Yeast

in The Biotech Weblog, on April 13, 2006

...ant, however, that artemisin-resistance will evolve, eventually leaving the potent drug ineffective against malaria. Early this year, WHO urged firms to help prevent the emergence of resistance by s... ...ve been able to engineer the E.coli bacteria to produce amorphadiene , a precursor to the anti-malarial drug artemisinin . This time, in a short corrrespondence published in the current issue of...

Mosquito Repellent From Frog Skin

in The Biotech Weblog, on February 23, 2006

This entry is submitted by Gloria Gamat, via Creative Reporter . Mosquito repellents that are currently available are made up of either synthetic chemicals such as DEET , or chemicals derived from plants like Citronella . Researchers at the University of Adelaide found, however, t...

WHO Urges Firms To Stop Sales of Artemisinin As Stand Alone Therapy Against Malaria

in The Biotech Weblog, on January 24, 2006

...HO called on 17 pharmaceutical companies recently to stop selling the drug as a stand-alone therapy against malaria. "WHO is taking this preemptive action in order to protect this medicine from... ... Artemisinin drugs are a class of anti-malarial drug derived from a Chinese medicinal herb. Although also sold commercially in combination with other anti-malarials, about 60% of sales are &quo...

Designing DNA: synthetic biology enters the spotlight

in Nanotechbuzz, on January 19, 2006

...nd bacteria to create microbes that produce hydrogen for use in fuel cells, genes to produce malaria drugs, and biological circuitry to detect cancer cells and deliver so-called suicide genes c...

Anti-Malaria Watch Alarms The Infected

in Philoneist, on January 19, 2006

... A wrist-watch that can detect malaria is expected to save millions of lives and could prevent hundreds of millions from becoming ill when it becomes available in February. Coined the "Malari...

Medical Blogging Grand Rounds and Tangled Bank

in The Biotech Weblog, on January 18, 2006

...e section are particularly interesting: From Aetiology comes an article explaining in detail why Malaria is so nasty. It plays hide-and-seek and changes it's molecular signature, among other di...

Medical Breakthrough Could Reduce Cancer Treatment Costs By 90% In Five Years

in Philoneist, on November 30, 2005

...her percentage of isoprenoids than normal. Isoprenoids are a key compound in anti-cancer and malaria drugs, which are currently harvested from plant genes. The research team claims that this te...

Novel Antimalarial Drug and Vaccine Candidates

in The Biotech Weblog, on November 28, 2005

...dentified an enzyme called PfSUB2 , also called sheddase , that may serve as a target for an anti-malarial drug. PfSUB2 is an enzyme enables the parasite Plasmodium falciparum to shed its sticky...

Glowing Gonads: A Novel Approach Against Malaria

in The Biotech Weblog, on October 12, 2005

... Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that plagues about a hundred countries and kills about 3 million yearly. Researchers from the Imperial College of London propose releasing sterile male mos...

Review Articles on Drug Discovery

in The Biotech Weblog, on September 27, 2005

...abstract reads: New antiparasitic drugs are urgently needed to treat and control diseases such as malaria, leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness and filariasis, which affect millions of people each year....

Costa Rica: Montezuma Waterfall

in The Outdoor Weblog, on September 13, 2005

...ll the strange effects from the pills they had taken in order to avoid awful incurable plagues like malaria. Evidently the area I was traveling in had several cases. Oops. Forgot to go get my shots be...

The public health risks in the hurricane aftermath

in Straightfromthedoc, on September 1, 2005

...ple going to get chlorine right now?" he said. Mosquito-borne illnesses, including West Nile, malaria, dengue, and even yellow fever, are concerns now given the extensive amount of still water t...

Monte Alban - Tripping In Oaxaca

in The Outdoor Weblog, on June 2, 2005

...hreat to the original excavations -- the mosquito. Yes, it was the pesky bloodsucker and the wicked malaria that it carried; it was a huge killer then, and a lifelong ailment today. Unflustered by the...