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Natural compund in cedar and grapefruit skin could help repel mosquitoes and ticks says CDC

Over the last few years, there has been a rise in the number of cases of diseases caused by mosquito and tick bites. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said that a natural chemical compound could help combat this problem. This compound Nootkatone is found commonly in cedar trees, and grapefruit skin says the organization.

11 Aug 2020

Using medieval medicine to find new treatments for modern-day infections

News-Medical spoke to researchers from the University of Warwick about their research investigating natural antimicrobials and their potential as antibiotics.

11 Aug 2020

Kids with silent malaria remain vulnerable to developing endemic Burkitt lymphoma

A study has found strong similarities between children with endemic Burkitt lymphoma — an aggressive cancer that attacks the body's defense system and children with silent malaria infection.

10 Aug 2020

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Still waiting for that Trump health plan

President Donald Trump keeps promising to unveil a comprehensive plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, but it keeps not appearing.

6 Aug 2020

Scientists detect emergence and spread of artemisinin-resistant malaria parasites in Rwanda

Resistance to artemisinin, the main component of the current antimalarial treatments recommended by WHO, is already widespread in South-East Asia, but it had not previously been described in Africa.

5 Aug 2020

New iron intervention study fights anemia with advanced computer simulation

A new iron intervention study has determined which of the world's low-and-middle income countries would benefit from using iron-containing micronutrient powders to tackle childhood anaemia.

4 Aug 2020

Scientists discover new set of channels that link deadliest malaria parasite and blood cells

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions have discovered another set of pore-like holes, or channels, traversing the membrane-bound sac that encloses the deadliest malaria parasite as it infects red blood cells.

30 Jul 2020

Anti-inflammatory Tetracycline activity may modulate COVID-19 severity

The current COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), seems to attack the human airway epithelium primarily. In severely affected patients, the illness progresses to hypoxemic respiratory failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The latter is treatable mainly by supportive management.

30 Jul 2020

Antimalarial drug shows in vitro activity against SARS-CoV-2 and flu viruses

Now, a new study published in the preprint server bioRxiv in July 2020 reports on the antiviral activity of two drugs found in an antimalarial drug currently in phase II trials in South Korea, called Pyramax.

30 Jul 2020

Public health experts fear a hasty FDA signoff on vaccine

The vaccine trial that Vice President Mike Pence kicked off in Miami on Monday gives the United States the tiniest chance of being ready to vaccinate millions of Americans just before Election Day.

29 Jul 2020

Study: HIV, TB, and malaria deaths could increase in low- and middle-income countries

Low- and middle-income countries could see HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria deaths increase by up to 36 per cent over the next five years because of COVID-19-induced health services disruptions, a study projects.

29 Jul 2020

Sniffer dogs detect COVID-19 infections with 94 percent accuracy

Dogs have an acute sense of smell. They have up to 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses, compared to six million in humans, making their smell receptors up 10,000 to 100,000 more powerful than humans.

28 Jul 2020

Researchers unlock new insights that may help inform vaccine design for infectious diseases

Vaccination is the most effective public health measure to prevent infectious diseases. Vaccines can greatly reduce the risk of infection by working with the body's natural defenses to safely develop immunity to disease.

28 Jul 2020

Study: Mosquitoes species are attracted and repelled by light at different times of day

In a new study, researchers found that night- versus day-biting species of mosquitoes are behaviorally attracted and repelled by different colors of light at different times of day.

28 Jul 2020

SwRI, UTSA researchers receive grant to create powerful, cost-effective malaria treatment

Southwest Research Institute and The Uni-versity of Texas at San Antonio are working to synthesize novel highly potent derivatives of the antimalarial drug artemisinin with the goal of creating a powerful, cost-effective malaria treatment.

27 Jul 2020

Malaria drug does not prevent infection of human lung cells with novel coronavirus

More than 600,000 people worldwide have fallen victim to the lung disease COVID-19 so far, which is caused by the SARS coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2).

22 Jul 2020

Study shows chloroquine does not prevent SARS-CoV-2

More than 600,000 people worldwide have fallen victim to the lung disease COVID-19 so far, which is caused by the SARS coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2).

22 Jul 2020

Hydroxychloroquine is not indicated for COVID-19 under any circumstances

The drug Hydroxychloroquine has long been studied as a treatment for malaria and autoimmune diseases. When the coronavirus pandemic spread across the globe, many countries resorted to using the drug in the hopes that it would improve outcomes of hospitalized patients affected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

19 Jul 2020

Pesticide use can speed the transmission of schistosomiasis

Widespread use of pesticides and other agrochemicals can speed the transmission of the debilitating disease schistosomiasis, while also upsetting the ecological balances in aquatic environments that prevent infections, finds a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

17 Jul 2020

More COVID-19 cases where blood type A is common

Now, a new study by researchers at the University of Ulm, Germany, which is published on the preprint server medRxiv in July 2020, focuses on how blood group distribution is related to the mapped dynamics of the epidemic as shown by its geographical distribution.

17 Jul 2020

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Latest Malaria News and Research

Natural compund in cedar and grapefruit skin could help repel mosquitoes and ticks says CDC

Using medieval medicine to find new treatments for modern-day infections

Kids with silent malaria remain vulnerable to developing endemic Burkitt lymphoma

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Still waiting for that Trump health plan

Scientists detect emergence and spread of artemisinin-resistant malaria parasites in Rwanda

New iron intervention study fights anemia with advanced computer simulation

Scientists discover new set of channels that link deadliest malaria parasite and blood cells

Anti-inflammatory Tetracycline activity may modulate COVID-19 severity

Antimalarial drug shows in vitro activity against SARS-CoV-2 and flu viruses

Public health experts fear a hasty FDA signoff on vaccine

Study: HIV, TB, and malaria deaths could increase in low- and middle-income countries

Sniffer dogs detect COVID-19 infections with 94 percent accuracy

Researchers unlock new insights that may help inform vaccine design for infectious diseases

Study: Mosquitoes species are attracted and repelled by light at different times of day

SwRI, UTSA researchers receive grant to create powerful, cost-effective malaria treatment

Malaria drug does not prevent infection of human lung cells with novel coronavirus

Study shows chloroquine does not prevent SARS-CoV-2

Hydroxychloroquine is not indicated for COVID-19 under any circumstances

Pesticide use can speed the transmission of schistosomiasis

More COVID-19 cases where blood type A is common

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