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ABC News features six videos on global health issues

ABC News on Thursday posted six videos in its "World In 3" health series. The three-minute videos examine malaria in Uganda, neglected tropical diseases in Niger, pneumonia in the Philippines, sleeping sickness in the Democratic Republic of Congo, tuberculosis in South Africa and parasitic worms in Brazil.

26 Aug 2011

IOM report: Few health problems are clearly associated with vaccines

An analysis of more than 1,000 research articles concluded that few health problems are caused by or clearly associated with vaccines.

26 Aug 2011

Faith-based organizations assist in fight against malaria

Natasha Bilimoria, president of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, discusses the importance of faith-based organizations in battling malaria in this post on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog.

26 Aug 2011

Global Fund official says global economic downturn affecting resource mobilization

ABC Radio Australia's "Connect Asia" features an interview with Christophe Benn, director of external relations for the Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Benn said "it has become much more difficult to mobilize resources" since the 2008-09 economic downturn and "a great deal of mobilization, both of public and private donors" is needed to maintain ongoing projects that receive donations from the Global Fund.

26 Aug 2011

Cholera strain associated with latest pandemic originated in Bangladesh, researchers report

"A cholera pandemic that has swept poor countries in three waves over nearly four decades has been traced to a bacterial strain that first emerged in Bangladesh, scientists reported on Wednesday," Agence France-Presse reports.

26 Aug 2011

Injecting mosquitoes with bacterium shows potential for dengue elimination, scientists report

Injecting mosquitoes with the Wolbachia bacterium "can block them from transmitting the dengue virus and help control the spread of a disease that kills 20,000 annually in more than 100 countries," a team led by Scott O'Neill, a geneticist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, reports in two papers published in Nature on Thursday, Reuters reports.

26 Aug 2011

High job stress causes workers to increasingly seek help from health professionals

Job-related stress is catching up with the Canadians. A new study by Concordia University economists, published in BMC Public Health, has found that increased job stress causes workers to increasingly seek help from health professionals for physical, mental and emotional ailments linked to job stress.

26 Aug 2011

Malaria mosquito has disappeared from villages without organized control measures

The incidence of malaria in many African countries south of the Sahara is falling rapidly. A Danish-Tanzanian research group has discovered that the mosquito carrying the malaria parasite has practically disappeared from villages without organized mosquito control, and the researchers do not know why.

26 Aug 2011

Researchers develop single vaccines to prevent rabies, Ebola infection

Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University, among other institutions, including the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, have developed single vaccines to protect against both rabies and the Ebola virus.

26 Aug 2011

Emergent announces results of adjuvanted BioThrax anthrax vaccine Phase 1a trial

Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced today that results from a Phase 1a clinical trial evaluating an investigational anthrax vaccine, Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed with CPG 7909 Adjuvant mixed at bedside, have been published in Vaccine, a leading medical journal on vaccines and immunology.

26 Aug 2011

Saudi Arabian medical products distributor enters agreement with NMI

Nano Mask, Inc. (NMI), a healthcare product development and distribution company focused on emergency and critical care as well as infection control markets, has announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with a Saudi Arabia-based medical products distributor which will represent NMI's product line on an exclusive basis to: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Egypt, Morocco, Oman, Algeria, Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain, Sudan, Yemen Lebanon, Yemen and Tunisia.

26 Aug 2011

Dengue fever mosquito trial successful

Researchers have stopped mosquitoes from spreading the dengue virus by infecting it with bacteria from flies that commonly live in kitchen fruit bowls. The two papers showed how the fruit-fly bacteria was established in wild mosquito populations, offering a practical and inexpensive way to stop transmission of dengue fever which affects 50 million people annually.

25 Aug 2011

AHF shares The Lancet's concerns over use of Gilead's Truvada as HIV prevention pill

Today AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) commented on an editorial published in the September 2011 issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases that raises concerns about the use of the HIV treatment drug Truvada, manufactured by Gilead Sciences Inc., as an HIV prevention pill or pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), agreeing with the publication's public health concerns.

25 Aug 2011

Disease/Infection News

ABC News features six videos on global health issues

IOM report: Few health problems are clearly associated with vaccines

Faith-based organizations assist in fight against malaria

Global Fund official says global economic downturn affecting resource mobilization

Cholera strain associated with latest pandemic originated in Bangladesh, researchers report

Injecting mosquitoes with bacterium shows potential for dengue elimination, scientists report

High job stress causes workers to increasingly seek help from health professionals

Malaria mosquito has disappeared from villages without organized control measures

Researchers develop single vaccines to prevent rabies, Ebola infection

Emergent announces results of adjuvanted BioThrax anthrax vaccine Phase 1a trial

Saudi Arabian medical products distributor enters agreement with NMI

Dengue fever mosquito trial successful

AHF shares The Lancet's concerns over use of Gilead's Truvada as HIV prevention pill

Insight into how bacterial toxins cause human diseases may help improve treatment

Redesigned vancomycin can kill deadliest antibiotic-resistant bacteria

New way to combat dengue fever

Cone Health uses Xenex room disinfection systems to reduce HAI rates and costs

Tel Aviv University researcher finds already-medicated patients transmit HIV virus to others

Study finds novel small molecule that inhibits EboV entry into host cells

Scientists identify cellular protein that plays a critical role in Ebola virus infection

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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