Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management
...ut drastically increasing pollution and decimating tropical forests would be an excellent way to help achieve several of the United Nations' 'millennium development goals' at the same time. It also presents an opportunity for the developed world to invest in the African continent, as many promised at the Janu...Charcoal and forest management could reduce greenhouse gas levels & save lives in Africa
...ut drastically increasing pollution and decimating tropical forests would be an excellent way to achieve several of the United Nation's "millennium development goals," among them reducing child mortality, and ensuring gender equity and environmental sustainability, and to invest in development of the African ...Envisat enables first global check of regional methane emissions
...results show larger than expected emissions across tropical land regions. The report concerns work carried out by the Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP) at the University of Heidelberg in cooperation with the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KMNI), based on interpretation of methane observati...Drug companies and governments must act on fake drug problem
...feiting around the world. The authors, who include tropical medicine experts Professor Nick White and Dr. Paul Newton from Oxford University, United Kingdom, and Mahidol University, Thailand, and drug regulators Dr. Dora Akunyili of Nigeria and Mr. Kyeremateng Agyarko of Ghana, will present their provocative ...The courage to change the rules: A Proposal for an essential health R&D treaty
...ween 1975 and 1999 were specifically developed for tropical diseases and tuberculosis - diseases that account for over 10% of the global disease burden. What we need, argue Nicoletta Dentico and Nathan Ford of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Working Group ( www.accessmed-msf.org/dnd/index.asp ) in this mont...New highly active agents against sandfly fever
...South-West Japan, the Caribbean, Latin America and tropical Africa. It can cause a specific form of leukaemia and a slowly developing degradation of the nervous system (tropical spastic paraparesia). The activity of these substances is closely linked to their chemical structure, and especially to the length o...'Signal' identified that enables malarial parasites to target blood cells
...r, particularly in underdeveloped and impoverished tropical and sub-Saharan countries. Plasmodium faciparum is the most virulent form of the four human malarial parasite species, killing over 1 million children each year, and is responsible for 25 percent of infant mortality in A...Malnutrition in early years leads to low IQ and later antisocial behavior, USC study finds
...r dyspigmentation, a condition found primarily in tropical regions where children's hair takes on a reddish-orange color due to protein deficiency; sparse, thin hair created by a deficiency in protein, zinc and iron; and anemia, which reflects iron deficiency. The children's intelligence level and cognit...Promising results for malaria vaccine trial
...cheap and effective drugs and population growth in tropical regions could mean that by the end of the decade half the world's population-around 3.5 billion people- could be living in areas where malaria is transmitted . The malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS02A has shown promise as a potential vaccine against Plasmodiu...Coast-mapping satellites will follow the tides
...be performed if weather conditions are right. Both tropical and polar coasts may stay enshrouded in cloud and precipitation for weeks or months at a time. Radar sensors such as the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) aboard ESA's Envisat can penetrate cloud cover as well as local darkness. They work on ...Taking apart a hurricane: Multi-sensor Envisat sees through Frances
...need to exceed 26C in order to form and maintain a tropical cyclone. Envisat's Advanced Along Track Scanning R...ater, which partly powers a hurricane, is known as tropical cyclone heat potential (TCHP). Oceanic features, such as warm core rings, eddies, and the Gulf Stre...UCSD partners with Peru in NIH grant to battle malaria, world's number 2 killer
...ken by an international team of researchers led by tropical disease specialist Joseph Vinetz, M.D., from the U...cine. The team will also study a variety of other tropical infectious diseases endemic to the area. With $750,000 from the Fogarty Training Grant for Global In...Tropical medicine: A brittle tool of the new imperialism
...cet editorial is strongly critical of the way that tropical medicine remains structured on outdated colonial l...ism and corporate colonialism'. THE LANCET charges tropical medicine with rewriting its history to suggest that it is 'an emblem of social enlightenment, indivi...System can predict disease spread
...ks. Something as remote as an El Nino event in the tropical Pacific Ocean has caused increases in precipitation thousands of miles away in the eastern United States. The extra rainfall, in turn, caused an increase in acorn production by oak trees, an increase in the numbers of mice and other animals such as d...Nonprofit pharmaceutical seeks drug approval next year
...Hale is an expert on developing new treatments for tropical infectious diseases and brings extensive pharmaceutical experience from public and private sectors, including the FDA and Genentech. In recent months, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Geneva, Switzerland, named Dr. Hale one of 10 o...Ebola virus a threat to great ape populations
...la virus causes epidemics that wreak havoc in some tropical forest areas in Central Africa. Its control is therefore a major public health priority. The virus, transmitted to humans mainly by carcasses of gorillas, chimpanzees and duikers (Bovidae), provokes haemorrhagic fever which is usually fatal. IRD rese...Chagas' disease: virulence factor identified
...s which affects nearly 20 million people mainly in tropical regions of Central and South America. The aetiological agent that causes it is a flagellate protozoan, Trypanosoma cruzi, transmitted to humans by haematophagous insects (Reduviidae).Research scientists from the IRD research unit "Pathognie des Trypa...Vaccines against fatal African cattle fever
...d at a very low temperature, which is difficult in tropical areas. Furthermore, with this method there is always the chance that the animal could become ill as a result of the vaccination. The new vaccines do not have these problems. The researchers developed two methods to make a stable form of the parasite...Hormones and drugs that control blood pressure also control malaria infection
...r, particularly in underdeveloped and impoverished tropical and sub-Saharan countries. The most virulent form of the four human malaria parasite species, Plasmodium falciparum, kills over 1 million children each year and is responsible for 25 percent of the infant mortality in Africa, according to latest est...OneWorld Health licenses compounds from Yale, U of Washington to treat major parasitic diseases
... of new medicines for the treatment of devastating tropical diseases," said Gelb, of the University of Washing...s in academic settings to develop therapeutics for tropical diseases will actually lead to new drugs." Victoria Hale, CEO and founder, OneWorld Health, explaine...