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Spanish government funds Neglected Disease research - Mar 20, 2008
Research4Development News (press release),Chagas disease and malaria, and other neglected diseases affecting 1500 million people in America America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa.
Organ Transplantation and Chagas Disease - Mar 11, 2008
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),To the Editor: Organ transplantation in patients with Chagas disease is one of the issues addressed by Dr Bern and colleagues 1 in their comprehensive
Organ Transplantation and Chagas Disease—Reply - Mar 11, 2008
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),As stated in the Clinical Review, we recommend that treatment decisions be individualized for all adult patients with Chagas disease, balancing the
GlaxoSmithKline, Drugs For Neglected Diseases Initiative To ... - Mar 6, 2008
Medical News Today (press release),For Chagas disease, which infects 18 million and puts 100 million at risk in Central and South America, drugs are needed to treat both acute and chronic
World briefs - March 20, 2008 - Mar 19, 2008
Pretoria News (subscription),San Pedro Sula - Three Triatoma dimidiatas, a type of bloodsucking insect that spreads Chagas disease. According to the epidemiology department of the
guest commentary Compulsory drug licensing disastrous - Mar 19, 2008
Denver Post,So the diseases that uniquely plague the developing world — like Dengue Fever, Chagas Disease, and Trypanosomiasis — will disappear from the research agenda
Chembio Appoints James D. Merselis to Board of Directors - Mar 20, 2008
CNNMoney.comChembio also has rapid tests for veterinary tuberculosis and Chagas disease. In 2007 Chembio received a US patent for its Dual Path Platform (DPP(TM))
Healthy Cane - Mar 6, 2008
Hurricane Online (subscription),Traveling a little farther to Africa, visitors can contract Chagas' disease, aka African sleeping disease, which comes from the Trypanosoma cruzi - the
Spanish Government Commits EUR 5 Million To DNDi's Research For ... - Mar 6, 2008
Medical News Today (press release),...research and development (R&D) of drugs for neglected diseases such as human African trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, and malaria.
Survival rates exceed national averages for UCSF heart, liver and ... - Mar 1, 2008
HULIQ,The program focuses on pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular failure, combined heart-kidney transplant, transplant for Chagas disease, transplant for
Commentary: An achievable dream: Eliminating some diseases from ... - Feb 25, 2008
Caribbean Net News,...trachoma, neonatal tetanus, onchocerciasis, vector-borne and transfusion-transmitted Chagas’ disease, lymphatic filariasis, congenital syphilis,
La Misma Luna (Under the Same Moon) - Feb 27, 2008
Miami New Times,Letters to Nora is a film about a surprisingly little-known affliction called Chagas' disease, also referred to as "sudden death disease" because of its
Maryland has a duty to offer secure licenses - Mar 9, 2008
Annapolis Capital,Tuberculosis, malaria, plague, polio, dengue, hepatitis A to E, and Chagas' disease cases are on the rise in illegal immigrant target states.
Spring Break: Reports from Nicaragua - Mar 4, 2008
William and Mary News,The chinche bugs, responsible for chagas disease, soon will make their way from the now wet areas towards the houses, and the people will stuggle both with
The picture of health - Feb 27, 2008
Greater Milwaukee Today,Some cases are indigenous problems, for example Chagas disease, a parasitic infection caused by a creature called the assassin bug, malaria and snake bites.
Chavez Failure More Obvious - 20 Feb 2008
CCN News Online,Outbreaks of dengue fever and Chagas disease have alarmed families living in the heart of this city. Fears of a devaluation of the new currency,
Bite from a conenose bug can bring Chagas' disease - Feb 1, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle,Chagas' disease is a very common disease in Latin America, and it is transmitted by four species of conenose bugs, including the western conenose,
Atlanta's EARTH University Foundation Gets Anonymous Donation to ... - Jan 29, 2008
E-Wire (press release),Chagas disease is the most prominent parasitic disease in Latin America. It affects an estimated eight to 11 million people in rural areas in the southern
Brazil well-placed to tackle neglected disease - Feb 11, 2008
Checkbiotech.org (press release),Brazil has already taken leadership in eliminating its Chagas disease problem, he points out, and made great strides in controlling and eliminating
Chembio in Additional Technology Pacts With Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - Jan 29, 2008
CNNMoney.comChembio also has rapid tests for veterinary tuberculosis and Chagas disease. In 2007 Chembio received a US patent for its Dual Path Platform (DPP(TM))
HOW'D THEY DO THAT?: Blood donation specialists help ordinary ... - Jan 25, 2008
Prescott Daily Courier,..."I also need to find out if someone has been to Mexico, South America or Central America to identify his or her risk factor for chagas disease," he said.
Why 'superbugs,' TB, leprosy and other pestilences are invading US - Feb 5, 2008
WorldNetDaily,Other diseases once virtually unknown in America, like Chagas disease and Dengue fever, are cropping up in southern border areas, while old and much-feared
Today's Research: Tomorrow's Health: Experimental Biology April 5 ... - Feb 5, 2008
Medical News Today (press release),...the spectrum of CNS inflammatory demyelinating diseases, classification of brain tumors, and the pathogenesis of Chagas disease.
Risks of Transfusion - Jan 31, 2008
RMGH Health News,There are possibilities of contracting parasitic pathogens not presently eliminated from our blood supply (Chagas disease, etc.).[6,7] Malaria remains the
Blood bank bias: whose blood is it, anyway? - Jan 23, 2008
Blogger News NetworkDiseases that can be spread via blood include HIV, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, Syphillis, CMV, HTLV I and II (which can cause leukemia), Chagas disease,
Full Text - Feb 7, 2008
Science Magazine (subscription)Whether the transmission of Chagas disease and dengue is augmented or diminished in urban areas depends on details such as the quality of house construction
ENVIRONMENT-ARGENTINA: Impenetrable Neglect - Feb 1, 2008
Inter Press Service (subscription),Plagued by Chagas disease, tuberculosis, leishmaniasis and other diseases closely related to poverty, and deprived of the fruit and wild game previously
Blood pressure - Feb 4, 2008
Albany Times Union,...*Blood is tested for major infectious diseases and a few rare ones that can be deadly: HIV, hepatitis B and C, syphilis, West Nile virus and Chagas disease.
UA undergrads do hands-on science - Jan 27, 2008
Arizona Daily Star,...for students' research abroad, Nina Castro spent three months in Peru working with a Johns Hopkins University health professor studying Chagas disease.
Lucky We Have an Election - Feb 6, 2008
The Conservative Voice,Third world diseases such as drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, plague, polio, dengue, and Chagas disease have appeared.
Javier Barden Wins Award as Producer - Feb 4, 2008
Prensa Latina,The stories deal with the situation of victims of little known problems such as Chagas disease in Bolivia, and the people displaced by armed conflicts in
ARGENTINA: Expansion of Agricultural Frontier Endangers Native ... - Feb 1, 2008
Inter Press Service (subscription),The deaths were caused by acute malnutrition associated in most cases with tuberculosis and other health problems like parasites, Chagas disease and cancer.
Study shows new way to fight Chagas disease - Dec 27, 2007
ReutersBy Michael Kahn LONDON, Dec 27 (Reuters) - A new, low-cost screening strategy could make it easier for poor countries to target and treat Chagas disease,
Researchers develop new strategy to fight against Chagas disease - Dec 27, 2007
Pravda,A newly appeared study can ease the life of many countries in the process of targeting and treating Chagas disease. Earlier the attempts to kill the virus
New screening strategy to diagnose chagas disease in children - Dec 26, 2007
Thaindian.com,Washington , Dec 26 (ANI): A new study has revealed that it would be possible to diagnose and treat Chagas disease in children in low-resource settings with
New Screening Strategy For Detection Of Chagas Disease In Children - Dec 25, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),A new targeted screening strategy could make the diagnosis and treatment of Chagas disease more feasible in low-resource settings, concludes a new study,
PepTcell and Gador Announce Collaboration to Develop Novel Vaccine ... - Dec 17, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),Currently, there are only two pharmaceutical treatments available for Chagas disease, both with serious side effects, and we are very excited by the
Data suggest community involvement is the key to controlling ... - Nov 29, 2007
The Rockefeller University Newswire,Efforts to control Chagas disease relied largely on a community-wide campaign of spraying insecticide to reduce the infestations of the bugs in homes,
Sam Hutchison has cancer. His father - Dec 14, 2007
Wall Street JournalPhysicians at Brown University had reported that a child with neuroblastoma who had contracted a tropical illness called Chagas disease went into remission
Argentine province declares state of emergency - Dec 18, 2007
Xinhua,The Toba is suffering from food shortages as wells as diseases associated with poverty including tuberculosis and Chagas disease, the governor said.
DNDi Receives $25.7M from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to ... - Dec 17, 2007
Press Media Wire (Press Release),...such as malaria, leishmaniasis, human African trypanosomiasis, and Chagas disease that afflict the very poor in developing countries.
Omega Diagnostics Gp - Interim Results - Dec 7, 2007
ReutersOmega operates in niche markets, primarily in infectious diseases (including Syphilis, TB, Dengue Fever, Chagas disease and Malaria), food intolerance
Chembio Completes Plan to Simplify Its Capital Structure, Raises ... - Dec 20, 2007
FOX NewsChembio also has rapid tests for veterinary tuberculosis and Chagas disease. In 2007 Chembio received a US patent for its Dual Path Platform (DPP(TM))
One Reporter’s Opinion — Illegals Pose Health Risks - Nov 29, 2007
NewsMax.com,But there are additional diseases carried by illegals that our medical community is attempting to treat: Chagas disease, known as the kissing bug disease,
Bush, Blair and Aznar Should be Tried for War Crimes, Says Javier ... - Dec 11, 2007
Cuba News,...and by the way it tackles the hardships and hopes of those who suffer from Chagas disease in Bolivia, those who are raped, those who are kidnapped to
Give the gift of life - Dec 10, 2007
Bismarck Tribune,...sent in test tubes to the corporate office in Arizona to be screened for HIV, hepatitis B and C, HTLV, West Nile virus, Chagas' disease and syphilis.
Among the Neglected - Nov 29, 2007
McGill Daily,The World Health Organization’s (WHO) list of NTDs includes leprosy, elephantiasis, Chagas disease, cholera, dengue, and sleeping sickness.
A WELL-ORGANIZED BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE IS A VITAL COMPONENT OF ... - 27 Nov 2007
Press Information Bureau (press release),Major diseases, other than HIV, that can be transmitted by infected blood include the hepatitis B and C viruses, syphilis, malaria and Chagas disease.
la clinic the nation's first to treat chagas disease - Nov 5, 2007
Los Angeles Times,..."if we can block the progression to full-blown chagas disease and heart failure, we'd be doing a huge service." like lyme disease or malaria,
first clinic treating chagas disease opens in la - Nov 6, 2007
San Jose Mercury News,..."if we can block the progression to full-blown chagas disease and heart failure, we'd be doing a huge service." treatment, so far, has posed a problem for
intriguing approach to developing treatments for chagas disease found - Nov 2, 2007
Science Daily (press release)4, 2007) — mexican researchers highlight a novel approach to discovering drugs for chagas disease in a laboratory study reported in plos neglected tropical
evaluation and treatment of chagas disease in the united states a ... - Nov 13, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),...trypanosoma cruzi infection (chagas disease). objective to examine the evidence base and provide practical recommendations for evaluation, counseling,
chagas disease - Nov 13, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),...chagas disease, or american trypanosomiasis, is caused by the parasite trypanosoma cruzi. infection is most commonly acquired through contact with an
general interest : blood safety experts investigating new cases of ... - Nov 2, 2007
SkyNewswire.com (press release),...(skynewswire.com) -- in the ten months since the us food and drug administration licensed the first blood-screening test for chagas' disease, some 241 blood
test finds some us blood donations positive for chagas’ disease - Nov 7, 2007
FDA news (subscription),...in the 10 months since the fda licensed the first blood-screening test for chagas’ disease, 241 blood donations in the us have tested positive,
ortho-clinical diagnostics team honored - Nov 23, 2007
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,...feasting at a pace that's hardly noticeable. in fact, most carriers of chagas disease don't even know they have it. many of them are regular donors of
ucla opens first chagas disease clinic in us - Nov 7, 2007
UC Los Angeles,...on olive view–ucla medical center’s opening of the nation’s first clinic to study and treat chagas disease, a deadly parasitic illness that has recently
first clinic treating chagas disease opens in la - Nov 6, 2007
San Diego Daily Transcript (subscription),...a hospital here has opened the first clinic in the nation that studies and treats a deadly parasitic illness that has spread from latin america to europe
`kissing bug' leaves not so sweet effects: heart disease, possibly ... - Nov 7, 2007
Los Angeles Daily News,...a clinic inside olive view-ucla medical center in sylmar is the first in the nation specifically devoted to the study and treatment of chagas disease,
renowned biology chagas researcher presents at american society ... - Nov 9, 2007
Loyola University New Orleans,...presented a continuing medical education course updating clinical pathologists and members of the blood-banking community on chagas disease. chagas
deadly diseases migrating into america with illegal aliens - Nov 7, 2007
NewsWithViews.com,...the nation's first clinic opens to treat deadly insect-borne chagas disease. as little as ten years ago, no one ever heard of chagas disease in the
los angeles times highlights area clinics targeting immigrants ... - Nov 7, 2007
Kaiser network.org,...this week published two articles about health clinics that specialize in care to minority populations. summaries appear below. chagas disease: the olive
�页�调色版 - Nov 6, 2007
金�界,...the cause of chagas disease. chagas disease is a potentially deadly infection which often does not exhibit symptoms for up to 40 years. it is now
briefly: 'super x-ray' shows promise - Nov 6, 2007
Fort Worth Star Telegram,...the associated press california -- a los angeles county hospital has opened the first clinic in the country devoted to studying and treating chagas disease,
founders of kids for world health to visit first lady - Nov 15, 2007
Larchmont Gazette,...leishmaniasis, and chagas disease, which have all been targeted by the world health organization under the direction of dr. jean jannin, a mentor,
discovery opens new avenues for chagas treatment - Nov 1, 2007
SciDev.net,...[mexico city] researchers have discovered a substance that destroys a key enzyme of the parasite that causes chagas disease, which could help create new
twas announces 2007 prize winners - Nov 15, 2007
Nanowerk LLC,...of chagas disease that currently afflicts an estimated 17 million people in central and south america. the serious health consequences of the disease,
upstream biosciences ceo appointed to uganda presidential business ... - Oct 29, 2007
CNNMoney.com...on african sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis. these parasites, which belong to a family of protozoa species that include chagas disease and malaria,
new sleeping sickness treatment developed - Nov 8, 2007
United Press International...requires 24-hour care. the trial by gerardo priotto and colleagues involved nifurtimox (a drug registered for chagas' disease) and eflornithine.
chembio diagnostics receives clia waiver for hiv barrel test - Nov 2, 2007
CNNMoney.com...and donor-funded programs directly and through distributors. chembio also has rapid tests for veterinary tuberculosis and chagas disease. in 2007,
america's body count of immigration suicide - Nov 9, 2007
American Chronicle,...tuberculosis, hepatitis and chagas disease—brought into the usa by illegal aliens who avoided health screening. not one of us can sit down at a
blood-screening test earns award for scientists - Nov 15, 2007
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,...winners all collaborated to develop the nation’s first fda-approved test for chagas’ disease, a potentially lethal parasitic infection of the blood.
many countries are clustered in high mortality traps - Nov 2, 2007
eMaxHealth.com,...by including the community, was able to create sustainable control of the parasite causing chagas disease. a fourth article is an analysis of factors
new drug combination shows promise for african sleeping sickness - Nov 6, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),...reports on a series of 48 patients treated with a novel combination of nifurtimox (a drug registered for chagas disease) and eflornithine. seventeen
business briefs - Nov 16, 2007
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,...and employs about 1000 people in the rochester area. the medal winners collaborated to develop the nation's first fda-approved test for chagas' disease,
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