... study of leading news organizations has found that neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) rarely make headlines ... open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Mangai Balasegaram (Bordeaux University ...
... , there lies a hidden underbelly of poverty and with this poverty comes endemic neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). In an editorial in this month's PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, the journal's ...
The United States is set to debut a voucher scheme to encourage pharmaceutical companies to produce drugs for tropical diseases.
... open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. In "Waging Peace through Neglected ... Global Ambassador of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases. "President [Barack] Obama and Secretary ...
New light has been shed on the toll that neglected tropical diseases take on sub-Saharan Africa, with an estimated 500 million people suffering from these debilitating and sometimes deadly diseases. ...
... Foundation grant for $1.5 million over five years will allow an international team of researchers to investigate how changes in the environment affect a deforming tropical disease called Buruli ulcer.
It is possible to simultaneously survey a number of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in the challenging environment of Southern Sudan, according to a new study published October 27 in the open- ...
... signal the presence of chemical compounds active against cancer cell lines and tropical parasitic ... compounds active against cancer and tropical parasitic disease by four-fold. "It's very gratifying ...
... Hill School of Public Health has established a new Gillings Innovation Lab to track and map tropical infectious diseases such as malaria, using state-of-the-art molecular and demographic methods...
Understanding how neglected tropical diseases affect chronic diseases can help inform health policies, say Peter Hotez and Abdallah Daar.
... Africa and other parts of the developing world, and like so many other neglected tropical diseases, it is difficult to treat. There are only a handful of effective drugs available, according to Dr. ...
... infectious diseases to tackle public health problems, he said.
Schistosomiasis is the second-most prevalent tropical disease after malaria, affecting 200 million people worldwide, according to the ...
Scientists are looking to outer space for help in their attempt to prevent new outbreaks of the tropical disease schistosomiasis in southern China. Once the Three Gorges Dam is fully operational, ...
... open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Researchers with Loyola University New ... Dorn, one of the lead authors of the study.
Chagas disease remains the leading cause of parasitic illness ...
... the same -- but is genetically distinct from -- the known carrier species. The two species haven't interbred for as many as 5 million years, according to a report in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
