Nevada Gov Steve Sisolak bans chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for COVID
Just as the FDA granted emergency approval for the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to treat patients suffering from the Chinese Coronavirus, Nevada’s Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak’s (D.) moved More...
NY Times bemoans the Venezuela crisis because Democrats may lose votes
A new article by NY Times writer Patricia Mazzei examines the Venezuela crisis, the efforts of the U.S. to support a more democratic regime, but not in the way you’d expect: Democrats may lose votes. “President More...
Thomas Malone, Former CFO of New Haven Biotech Firm admits Embezzling $1 Million
John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that THOMAS MALONE, 49, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to charges related to his embezzlement of approximately More...
Singapore Placed 13th in Human Capital Investments
Singapore is an island full of opportunities both for its citizens and foreigners. Recently, the state has been ranked number 13 for human capital investment. This is according to a study conducted by experts from More...
New insight on malaria parasite transmission could inform future drug development
A clinical trial involving an established model for studying malaria has yielded new insight on parasite transmission and could assist in future elimination efforts. Plasmodium falciparum ring forms/CDC The study, More...
Malaria: Penn State researchers describe target for combatting drug-resistant parasites
A newly described protein could be an effective target for combatting drug-resistant malaria parasites. The protein, the transcription factor PfAP2-I, regulates a number of genes involved with the parasite’s More...
Tips to Prevent and Treat Bug Bites
Although warm, spring weather means more time outdoors, it also means more bugs – like bees, ticks and mosquitoes. The best way to deal with pesky bites and stings, say dermatologists from the American Academy More...
Malaria ‘superbugs’ threaten global malaria control
A lineage of multidrug resistant P. falciparum malaria superbugs has widely spread and is now established in parts of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, causing high treatment failure rates for the main falciparum malaria More...
How to Deal with the World’s Most Dangerous Animal
What’s the world’s most dangerous animal? Is it a lion, a shark or a venomous snake? This article reveals what the animal is and how to deal with it! If you had to guess what the deadliest living creature More...
Florida reports 10 imported chikungunya cases in 2014
The number of mosquito borne infectious agents spans a plethora of viruses (dengue , chikungunya, West Nile virus, Eastern Equine encephalitis virus and St. Louis encephalitis virus and parasites (malaria and filariasis). More...
Crowdfunding To Combat Malaria
A recent crowdfunding campaign, launched on May 06, 2014, has already received national attention for it’s lofty but entirely feasible goal: eliminate the scourge of malaria by raising $250,000 to develop a robot More...
NIH officials release statement on World Malaria Day
On World Malaria Day, it is encouraging to note that enhanced global efforts to control and eliminate malaria have saved an estimated 3.3 million lives since 2000. However, the mosquito-borne disease continues to More...
Ireland report rise in malaria cases, half from travelers to Nigeria
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) in Ireland has reported 71 malaria cases (all imported) in 2013, up from 65 cases (9%) from the year before. Image-CDC/ James Gathany The category of traveler More...
Scottish researcher discovers how Plasmodium allows human to human transmission
The breakthrough achieved by the University of Glasgow/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute team has been to identify the way the parasite flicks the switch that allows transmission to take place. Plasmodium falciparum More...
Malaria vaccine, PfSPZ, to be available by 2019: Sanaria CEO
A malaria vaccine developed by Rockville, MD company, Sanaria Inc, will debut in 2019, according to a report in the Malaysian news source, Bernama today. Plasmodium falciparum ring forms/CDC The report say that More...
Cases of the ‘Monkey malaria’, Plasmodium knowlesi, up in Malaysia
Health officials in Malaysia are showing concern over the increases in cases of the “Monkey malaria”, Plasmodium knowlesi in humans in recent years, according to a Sun Daily report today. Universiti More...
Nigeria distributes new national guidelines for co-implementation of interventions to eliminate malaria and lymphatic filariasis
PRESS RELEASE The Nigeria Federal Ministry of Health is distributing new national guidelines for co-implementation of interventions to eliminate malaria and lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis). This combined nationwide More...
Cambodia reports dramatic drops in malaria, dengue fever cases in 2013
Cambodia Health Ministry officials reported some very promising news concerning the decrease of two major mosquito borne infections in the Kingdom, according to two separate reports since Sunday. Image/CIA Cases More...
South Africa: ANC Parliament member, Crosby Moni, succumbs to malaria
African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament (MP) and former deputy president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Crosby Moni died Sunday after contracting malaria after a recent visit to Mozambique. What More...
Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University scientists discover way to block malaria parasite from invading RBC
Scientists from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have discovered a key process during the invasion of the blood cell by the Malaria parasite, and more importantly, found a way to block this invasion. Malaria More...
