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Published July 9, 2009, 2:01 pm, Voice of America
African sleeping sickness is almost a joke in the West. Films depict explorers being bitten by the tsetse fly and then falling into a slumber. But sleeping sickness, or Human African trypanosomiasis, is no joke to the hundreds of thousands of people it affects annually.
Cultivating Knowledge on the Flathead Reservation
Published July 9, 2009, 10:14 am, Char-Koosta News
According to the 2007 USDA Census of Agriculture there are approximately 4,760 horses and ponies on the Flathead Indian Reservation. With the number of water resources on the Reservation we run the risk of higher number of mosquitoes, the vector for the West Nile Virus.
IPS Examines Need For New Drugs To Treat Neglected Tropical Diseases
Published July 9, 2009, 9:14 am, Medical News Today
Inter Press Service News Agency examines the shortcomings of treatments for neglected tropical diseases - which, according to the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi), account "for 12 percent of the global disease burden," and 1.3 percent of the new drugs developed between 1975 to 2004.
Swine flu detected in kids at camps
Published July 8, 2009, 7:35 am, San Diego Union-Tribune
With swine flu showing no sign of taking a summer vacation, the pandemic virus has claimed a fourth victim in the county and is surfacing at children's camps across the country, including one in Julian.
IFPMA R&D Status Report 2009: Industry Research Increasing In Less Well-known Tropical Diseases
Published July 8, 2009, 5:16 am, Medical News Today
The IFPMA has just published the 2009 edition of its Status Report on Pharmaceutical Industry R&D for Diseases of the Developing World(1).
EEE Surfaces in East Mississippi
Published July 7, 2009, 5:48 pm, WTOK-TV Meridian
Mississippi's first case of the year of a dangerous virus for both horses and humans has surfaced in the eastern part of the state.
SMS for Tuesday 07 JULY 2009
Published July 7, 2009, 2:04 am, The Namibian
* I JUST want to talk about this drug trade in Namibia. It’s uncontrollable and we the nation must work together so that these people can be caught. How many Angolans have been arrested in a short time at our airports and borders and how long has that been going on?
CD reviews: Band travels same old road
Published July 7, 2009, 1:56 am, The Columbus Dispatch
'American Central Dust' Son Volt Movement and stasis face off bitterly throughout American Central Dust, the stoic but sympathetic new Son Volt album.
Neglected Diseases Under the Microscope
Published July 6, 2009, 11:12 pm, AllAfrica.com
Nairobi — Neglected diseases, neglected people. Marcel Tanner uses the phrase to emphasise the attitude of drug developers towards tropical diseases that primarily affect the marginalised poor.
ASK THE DOCTOR
Published July 6, 2009, 4:50 pm, Daily Mail: World News
ASK THE DOCTOR
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