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Clinical Briefs For November 2005 Oct 30, 2005
...globe have determined genetic blueprints for the parasites that cause three deadly insect-borne diseases: African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas ...
- U.S. Medicine,
WHO sets its sights on 5 tropical diseases Nov 16, 2005
United Nations’ specialised agency for health, has identified tropical diseases like leprosy, lymphatic filariasis (LF), visceral leishmaniasis (kala azar ...
- Business Standard,
Gulf vets should be screened Nov 3, 2005
Veterans returning from Iraq should be screened for diseases such as Leishmaniasis and Giardiasis, according to Hobbick. Leishmaniasis ...
- Syracuse Post Standard,
Tropical disease research gets £8m funding boost Oct 25, 2005
Despite their prevalence, many of the diseases - including African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis - have attracted little interest from ...
- EducationGuardian.co.uk,
Wellcome Trust awards ?8.1 million to tackle tropical diseases Oct 25, 2005
The diseases, which include African sleeping sickness, Chagas' disease and leishmaniasis, are among the most neglected in the world, affecting millions of the ...
- News-Medical.net,
University hunts cure for parasitic infections Oct 25, 2005
...diseases. Sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas' disease are all caused by parasites spread by blood-sucking insects. Between ...
- EducationGuardian.co.uk,
Taking care of orphans Oct 26, 2005
...by tiny sand flies and triggers hideous facial ulcers, or appalling liver, bone marrow and spleen infections: it is variously known as leishmaniasis, kala azar ...
- EducationGuardian.co.uk,
Institute for OneWorld Health Offers Global Health Experts for ... Nov 2, 2005
In five years, OneWorld Health has completed a clinical trial for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in India, received orphan drug status from the FDA for its drug ...
- Genetic Engineering News,
Victoria G. Hale Oct 31, 2005
But having put our energy into leishmaniasis for a while, we're moving onto bigger diseases such as malaria and diarrhoea, and some of these programmes could ...
- Nature.com (subscription),
£8.1m to fight neglected diseases Oct 25, 2005
...discoveries into candidate drugs ready for clinical trials to treat a range of killer diseases including sleeping sickness, Chagas' disease and leishmaniasis. ...
- Scotsman,
Scientists given £8m to fight tropical diseases Oct 25, 2005
African sleeping sickness, Chagas' disease, and leishmaniasis are among the most neglected in the world and, because it is the poor they affect, they have ...
- The Herald,
£8M BOOST ON DISEASE Oct 25, 2005
They'll concentrate on the likes of African sleeping sickness, Chagas' disease and leishmaniasis that affect millions and kill about 140,000 each year. ...
- Glasgow Daily Record,
Why Biodiversity Is a Public Health Issue Nov 2, 2005
Outbreaks of leishmaniasis, yellow fever, and sleeping sickness can all result when humans encroach on tropical rainforests through slash-and-burn agriculture ...
- American Council on Science and Health,
Biotechnology Can Transform Medicine, Health Care, Expert Says Oct 27, 2005
...tests and recombinant vaccines may have particular relevance for combating long-standing diseases of developing countries, including leishmaniasis (a tropical ...
- Washington File,
New Hope for Old Diseases with Abandoned Drugs Oct 30, 2005
...developing world.". "OneWorld Health is developing the antibiotic paromomycin as a new cure for visceral leishmaniasis. Paromomycin ...
- Technocrat.net,
Clinic begins trial of cancer-treating drug Sep 21, 2005
SSG has been used primarily to treat leishmaniasis, a potentially fatal disease that can damage the liver and pancreas and occurs most often in developing ...
- Crain's Cleveland Business,
Kala-azar outbreak in Seoni district feared Sep 2, 2005
IN A disturbing development, a 22-year-old married woman has contacted the deadly disease Kala-azar (Visceral Leishmaniasis) with symptoms of fever ...
- Hindustan Times,
Officials: Iraq Health Sector in Crisis Sep 19, 2005
...three years ago with Iraqi officials to rehabilitate and develop health facilities and control diseases such as cholera, malaria and leishmaniasis, which are ...
- Newsday,
British vets study Labrador osteoarthritis Sep 26, 2005
...against dog malady (August 3, 2005) -- French researchers say they've developed a trial vaccine for dogs infected with visceral leishmaniasis, which can also ...
- Science Daily (press release)
ABL sales continue to increase Sep 28, 2005
...been filed for government approval, with more to be filed soon; continued positive military testing of the ABL products on Leishmaniasis; continued positive ...
- Canada NewsWire (press release),
Parsing Parasites Sep 25, 2005
This past summer three international groups published the DNA sequences of the parasites that cause Chagas' disease, African sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis ...
- Scientific American
EU parliament calls for more R&D on neglected diseases Sep 14, 2005
...for research on HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis is important, it is vital to tackle comparatively neglected diseases such as leishmaniasis and African ...
- SciDev.net,
Officials: Iraq Health Sector in Crisis Sep 19, 2005
Leishmaniasis, a skin disease transmitted by bites from sand flies, is known as "Baghdad Boil" to US soldiers in Iraq, and can leave disfiguring lesions on the ...
- Leading The Charge,
Attention for Neglected Diseases Sep 7, 2005
The full report is also available on-line at http://www.wellcome.ac.uk. * Rectal artesunate for malaria and paromomycin for visceral leishmaniasis.
- Newswise (press release)
A new era of hope for neglected diseases Sep 8, 2005
...have already reached clinical trial stage and two are awaiting regulatory approval (rectal artesunate for malaria, and paromomycin for visceral leishmaniasis). ...
- Medical News Today (press release),
VioQuest's Proposed Drug Acquisition Candidate Enters Phase I ... Sep 13, 2005
SSG has been used for decades to treat leishmaniasis, an infectious disease common in many developing countries, but until recently its mechanism of action was ...
- ArriveNet (press release),
Taussig Cancer Center Begins Trial for Drug Developed by Cleveland ... Sep 13, 2005
The investigational drug, sodium stibogluconate (SSG), has been used historically to treat leishmaniasis, an infectious disease prevalent in many developing ...
- PharmaLive.com (press release),
Parliament passes resolution on neglected diseases Sep 13, 2005
...into new technologies for HIV prevention such as vaccines and microbicides, and for efforts to combat the chronic under-funding of leishmaniasis research to be ...
- ResearchResearch,
Poor drugs get a rich dad Sep 15, 2005
...currently has 17 projects at different stages of development to address identified needs for the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness, Chagas ...
- Economic Times,
Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis Presenting As Facial CellulitisJul 28, 2005
We report a case of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania viannia braziliensis. ... We report a case of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis. ...
- RedNova.com
Leishmaniasis disease under control in EthiopiaJul 11, 2005
Ethiopia's Ministry of Health said Saturday it has put under control Leishmaniasis, also known as Kala-azar disease, which had broke out in various lowland ...
- People's Daily Online
Visceral leishmaniasis - successful vaccine trial in dogsJul 3, 2005
Visceral leishmaniasis, which is the most severe form of the leishmaniases, hits an annual total of 500 000 people, mostly in the developing countries. ...
- I-Newswire.com
Rare outbreak of leishmaniasis kills more than 150 in EthiopiaJul 5, 2005
A rare outbreak of parasite-borne visceral leishmaniasis has killed more than 150 people, many of the children, in northern Ethiopia since the end of last year ...
- TODAYonline
Leishmaniasis vaccine successful in dogsJul 6, 2005
A NEW vaccine against the parasitic disease leishmaniasis not only prevents the disease in dogs, it can cure them too. The experimental ...
- New Scientist (subscription)
Leishmaniasis disease under control in EthiopiaJul 10, 2005
ADDIS ABABA, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopia's Ministry of Health said Saturday it has put under control Leishmaniasis, also known as Kala-azar disease, which had ...
- RedNova.com
Traveling the globe? Be sure to pack CDC's 'Yellow Book'Jul 29, 2005
...necessary for specific locations worldwide, tips on preventing travel-associated diseases (including cholera, typhoid fever and leishmaniasis), as well as ways ...
- Los Angeles Times
Metabolism cycle of Kala-Azar parasite revealedJul 26, 2005
Leishmaniasis, known as Kala-Azar in India, infects at least 12 million people worldwide, in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and parts of Africa. ...
- MedIndia
Yorkshire scientists in tropical disease progressJul 18, 2005
Unit are part of an international collaboration which has sequenced the genomes of single-celled parasites which cause the disease Leishmaniasis in humans. ...
- Yorkshire Post Today
Three deadly parasite genomes sequencedJul 15, 2005
...globe have determined genetic blueprints for the parasites that cause three deadly insect-borne diseases: African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas ...
- innovations report
Researchers Sequence Three Deadly Parasite GenomesJul 15, 2005
Genetic blueprints for the parasites that cause three deadly insect-borne diseases -- African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease -- are now ...
- Daily News Central
Gene 'Maps' Show Way to Beat Killer DiseasesJul 15, 2005
...have decoded the genetic blueprints of the parasitic microbes responsible for African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis, which collectively ...
- RedNova.com
Old World Parasites Get New World TreatmentJul 15, 2005
Three parasite-originating diseases, African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and Leishmaniasis, are widespread and currently incurable on the African ...
- WebProNews
Health guidelines issued to control epidemicsJul 28, 2005
During the past few years, it has been noted that hepatitis, gastroenteritis, malaria, typhoid, leishmaniasis, dengue fever and rabies are the main cause of ...
- Daily Times
Three deadly parasite genomes sequencedJul 15, 2005
...have determined genetic blueprints for the parasites that cause three deadly insect-borne diseases: African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease ...
- Xagena.it
International researchers sequence genomes of developing world ...Jul 18, 2005
The completion of the genome sequence for the three protozoan parasites responsible for sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis is described in the ...
- ResearchResearch
Three deadly parasites share common genesJul 15, 2005
...reported Thursday to have determined genetic blueprints for parasites causing three deadly diseases--African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease ...
- EastDay.com
Three Tropical Parasites Genetic Code UnravelledJul 17, 2005
Scientists have now cracked the genetic makeup three fatal diseases –sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease that are caused by Trypanosoma brucei ...
- MedIndia
THE DISEASESJul 20, 2005
...at risk. Leishmaniasis is caused by the parasite Leishmania major and related species, conveyed through a sandfly bite. Twelve million ...
- OregonLive.com
Deadly parasites show common genetic coreJul 15, 2005
The three parasites – the culprits behind African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis – cause markedly varying diseases and are carried by ...
- ScienceBlog.com
Scientists sequence the genomes of three species of parasites ...Jul 17, 2005
...say the sequencing of the genomes of the parasitic protozoa that cause Chagas disease, African sleeping sickness, and leishmaniasis, could significantly impact ...
- News-Medical.net
Wasilla man fights pests as contractor for militaryJul 6, 2005
...facilities. A. The tiny sand fly, the one that carries Leishmaniasis. Q. Not many people have probably ever heard Leishmaniasis? Can ...
- Anchorage Daily News
Parasites' genetic code 'cracked'Jul 14, 2005
Their understanding should help with treatments for Chagas disease, African sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis caused by the three pathogens. ...
- BBC News
Parasites’ genomes may reveal common weak spotJul 14, 2005
By comparing newly published genomes of parasites which cause sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis, researchers have discovered thousands of ...
- New Scientist (subscription)
Scientists map deadly parasites' gene codesJul 15, 2005
The research opens the possibility of finding drugs that would fight all three ancient scourges: African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis. ...
- Xinhua
Scientists decode deadly parasite genomesJul 15, 2005
The international team said they had mapped out the genomes of the parasites that cause African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis, which kill ...
- Independent Online
Gene scientists win crucial battle in the war against killer ...Jul 15, 2005
The work promises the development of a new generation of drugs and vaccines for African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis, a family of insect ...
- Times Online
Three Dangerous Parasites Share Genetic CoreJul 16, 2005
Three single-cell parasites responsible for three diseases — African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis — share a ...
- Los Angeles Times
News In BriefJul 26, 2005
Leishmania major is the culprit behind leishmaniasis, characterized by disfiguring skin lesions, and affects as many as 300 million people in 88 countries. ...
- Nature.com (subscription)
Scientists Unravel Genetic Material of 3 Deadly ParasitesJul 16, 2005
...from 21 countries worked for five years to decipher the genetic blueprints of the single-cell parasites that cause sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas ...
- Food Consumer
Soldiers, Civilians Returning from Middle East: Be Aware of “ ...Jul 23, 2005
...study published in the June 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, “Baghdad boil,� or cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), among ...
- I-Newswire.com
Scientists Decode DNA of 3 Deadly ParasitesJul 15, 2005
...drugs to treat them. The three illnesses in question are African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis. The results of ...
- Elites TV
Genome Sequences for Three Deadly Parasites Provide Foundation for ...Jul 15, 2005
The sequences of these related parasites – which cause African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis – provide a foundation for developing ...
- RedNova.com
Oregon Health & Science Univ Scientist Helps Analyze Sleeping ...Jul 20, 2005
Leishmania major causes leishmaniasis that takes three forms: kala azar, espundia and cutaneous leishmaniasis, which together affect more than 12 million ...
- CentralPointNews.com
A Lab Builds Better Barriers Against Invading ParasitesJul 25, 2005
At my lab, we are working on the five neglected diseases of mankind - malaria; schistosomiasis; leishmaniasis, aka the Baghdad boil; African sleeping sickness ...
- New York Times
Nation/WorldJul 15, 2005
...to drugs or vaccines that could be used against common weak points in the protozoa that cause Chagas disease, African sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis. ...
- Birmingham Post Herald
Yorkshire leads research into deadly Baghdad BoilJul 6, 2005
Yorkshire. Developing nations, including Iraq and Afghanistan, have been plagued by the fly-borne disease called leishmaniasis. ...
- Yorkshire Post Today
Common Genetics Key to Fighting Deadly ParasitesJul 14, 2005
July 14 (HealthDay News) -- Three different parasites driving three tropical diseases -- sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis -- have a lot in ...
- Forbes
Bug catchers unite for securityJul 5, 2005
Last year, leishmaniasis was discovered in kangaroos in the Northern Territory. "It causes a wide spectrum of diseases from skin ...
- Australian
Analysis Identifies Common Genetic Core for Trio of ParasitesJul 17, 2005
...in the current issue of the journal Science, the parasites responsible for African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis--illnesses with very ...
- Scientific American
Trypanosomes at the GatesJul 14, 2005
...on a blood donor questionnaire? Leishmania major is responsible for one variety of leishmaniasis. Other species contribute to a ...
- Science Magazine (subscription)
Leading Article: GENE SEQUENCING - A Stunning Success in the Fight ...Jul 15, 2005
...countries. But people in the developed world are much less likely to have heard of Chagas' disease, leishmaniasis and sleeping sickness. ...
- RedNova.com
Orphan Diseases, Collaborative Biology and Sequencing ParasitesJul 14, 2005
...have sequenced the genomes of the parasites leading to some of the worst diseases in the developing world: African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas ...
- WorldChanging
Parasites’ Genomes NailedJul 15, 2005
The research, published in the journal Science, will provide new insights into how to tackle African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis, and Chagas disease. ...
- Red Herring
Genes Research to Aid Third World Disease FightJul 15, 2005
...have decoded the genetic blueprints of the parasitic microbes responsible for African sleeping sickness, Chagas' disease and leishmaniasis, which collectively ...
- RedNova.com
Deadly Parasite Genomes Sequenced By International TeamJul 15, 2005
...causes African sleeping sickness, Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes Chagas' disease, and Leishmania major, which causes cutaneous leishmaniasis ( skin lesions ...
- I-Newswire.com
Parasite Genome Sequences Offer Hope for New Drugs and VaccinesJul 15, 2005
...have sequenced and compared the genomes of three of the parasites responsible for sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis, three devastating ...
- RedNova.com
Scientists map genes of three fatal parasitesJul 15, 2005
The research opens the possibility of finding drugs that would fight African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis. ...
- OCRegister (subscription)
Parasite Genomes Sequenced 7/15/05Jul 15, 2005
Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi), and Leishmania major (L. major) are responsible for sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and leishmaniasis respectively, which ...
- Bioscience Technology
Missionary Spotlight Uganda, pearl of AfricaJul 20, 2005
There was resistant malaria, amoebiasis, leishmaniasis, worms of every sort — guineaworm, whipworm, ascaria, tapeworm, hookworm — abdominal pains, fever ...
- Evangelical Times
Scientists crack DNA for three Third World diseasesJul 20, 2005
...one of them Portland-based, has mapped the genes of the three deadly parasites that cause African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis. ...
- OregonLive.com
Summary Box: Deadly Parasite Genes MappedJul 14, 2005
...gene mapping opens the possibility of finding drugs that would fight all three ancient scourges: African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis. ...
- San Francisco Chronicle
Scientists crack deadly parasites' gene codesJul 14, 2005
...published today in the journal Science, opens the way to developing safe and effective treatments for sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis. ...
- Financial Times
Scientists decipher DNA of diseases that threaten 500m of world's ...Jul 14, 2005
Between them, sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis threaten half a billion of the world's poorest people and kill more than 150,000 a year. ...
- EducationGuardian.co.uk
Some 159 killed by parasitic infection spread by sandflies in ...Jul 5, 2005
..."If not treated the sick will die in a few months.". Kala azar, also called visceral leishmaniasis, is almost always fatal if left untreated. ...
- Canada.com
Brad Pitt checks into hospital after Ethiopia tripJul 13, 2005
...as food or waterborne diseases like bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, typhoid fever, and hepatitis E. Malaria and cutaneous leishmaniasis are high ...
- ProFindPages.com
A MUST READ and FORWARD : The Tiny Victims of Desert StormJul 6, 2005
...have caused birth defects, think the vets' ills came from a germ--an unknown Iraqi biological warfare agent, perhaps, or some form of leishmaniasis, a disease ...
- Axis of Logic
Contact: Gina HebertJul 14, 2005
...who have come here especially to study the inner-workings of the bugs that cause malaria, African sleeping sickness, schistosomiasis, and leishmaniasis. ...
- EurekAlert
Grants fuel fight over semanticsJul 1, 2005
He, too, believes the SBIR program was designed to fund unconventional research, such as his work into leishmaniasis, a skin infection transmitted by sand ...
- Rocky Mountain News
Overview: Curcumin protects against cancer and heart diseaseJul 12, 2005
35. Saleheen D, Ali SA, Ashfaq K, Siddiqui AA, Agha A, Yasinzai MM. Latent activity of curcumin against leishmaniasis in vitro. Biol Pharm Bull. ...
- Food Consumer
Africa to create centre to fight infectious diseaseJul 6, 2005
...and support research into drugs and vaccines against diseases endemic in Africa such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, filariasis and bilharzia ...
- SciDev.net
Institute for OneWorld Health Receives Lehman Brothers Foundation ...Jul 7, 2005
...affordable medicines for infectious diseases that disproportionately affect people in the developing world, including visceral leishmaniasis, malaria, diarrhea ...
- CSRwire.com
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