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1 hr ago | CiteULike

Comparative genomics in Chlamydomonas and Plasmodium identifies an...

Comparative genomics in Chlamydomonas and Plasmodium identifies an ancient nuclear envelope protein family essential for sexual reproduction in protists, fungi, plants, and vertebrates.

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Related Topix: Nuclear Energy, Medicine, Health

5 hrs ago | Mail & Guardian

Now people of Great Lakes need to see peace dividend

Africa's Great Lakes region now has the chance to achieve something that has eluded its war-weary people for several decades.

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Related Topix: Democratic Republic of the Congo, World News, Africa, Medicine, Health, Cholera

9 hrs ago | Korean News

DPRK Pays Big Efforts to Prevention of Malaria

Attending it were officials of the Ministry of Public Health and national institutions, health workers, staff members of international organizations' missions here including the representative of WHO office and the Polish ambassador.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

10 hrs ago | MBendi

Mauritania

Mauritania is an independent republic which lies mainly in the Sahara Desert belt on the on the bulge of Africa and forms part of the West African Region.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Mauritania, Medicine, Agriculture, Science

Thu May 23, 2013

Burlington Times News

Rampant 'wackoism'

Dr. Henry Miller, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Gregory Conko, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in their Forbes article "Rachel Carson's Deadly Fantasies" , wrote that her 1962 book, "Silent Spring," led to a world ban on DDT use.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Opinion

Star Tribune

How cockroaches quickly evolved to outsmart humans

Everyone knows that cockroaches are the ultimate survivors, with enough evolutionary tricks up their carapaces to have thrived for 350 million years and to have completely adapted to the human species.

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Related Topix: North Carolina, Chemistry, Science, Medicine, Health, Entomology, UC Davis

Business Wire

International AIDS Advocates Demand China Give $1 Billion to Global Fund

Noting that the world's second-largest economy received nearly $1 billion from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria over the past decade, but contributed just $25 million, AIDS patients, doctors and advocates from around the world affiliated with AIDS Healthcare Foundation will target China for its misuse of the Global Fund and ... (more)

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Healthcare

Walta Information Centre

President Michael Sata expected in Addis Ababa, for AU - Thursday, 23 May 2013 13:00

President Michael Sata is tomorrow expected in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the AU 50 Celebrations and 21st Ordinary Session of the African Union which is scheduled to take place from the 25th to the 27th of May, 2013 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia., Lusaka Times reported.

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Related Topix: Zambia, World News, Medicine, Health

Babalu Blog

Government of Brazil cancels plan to purchase slave labor from Cuba's dictatorship

I am sure Brazil's decision to cancel the purchase of slave labor from Cuba has less to do with morality and more to do with internal politics, but we are happy the end result is the same.

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Related Topix: Travel, Uruguay Travel, South America Travel, Brazil, Uruguay Travel, Medicine, Health, US News, Conservative Political News

CiteULike

Iron supplementation increases prevalence and effects of malaria:...

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene , Vol. 80, No.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Papua New Guinea, Oceania, World News

BioMed Central

Prescription patterns and drug use among pregnant women with febrile...

Malaria is a public health problem in Uganda; affecting mainly women and children.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, HIV/AIDS

Wed May 22, 2013

Indiana's NewsCenter

Students Tape Principal to the Wall

It became quite the "sticky" situation. The school's principal, Axel Gruen, made a promise to his students that if they raised $1,000 for the Lutheran Malaria Initiative, he would let them tape him to the wall.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Townhall

It Wasn't Malaria

If you are going to spend much time in Africa, you will be taking anti-malaria pills.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Opinion

HIV and Hepatitis

UNAIDS: More than 7 Million Africans on HIV Treatment, Deaths Continue to Fall

The number of people in Africa receiving antiretroviral medications increased from less than 1 million in 2005 to an estimated 7.1 million in 2012, according to a new report from UNAIDS.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Medicine

Live Science

Malaria Medicine Could Be Toxic

A malaria drug once widely prescribed to U.S. soldiers could cause symptoms similar to traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder , one researcher says.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Johns Hopkins University, Life, Veteran Affairs

KSDK NewsChannel 5

Mosquitoes might bite you more often if you drink this

By Steve Zaagman and Chris Zoladz GRAND RAPIDS - They kill more humans than any other animal.

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Related Topix: Weather, Medicine, Health, West Nile Virus

Tue May 21, 2013

Medical News Today

New Malaria LAMP Test Kit Will Boost Elimination Efforts Worldwide,...

A new, highly sensitive blood test that quickly detects even the lowest levels of malaria parasites in the body could make a dramatic difference in efforts to tackle the disease in the UK and across the world, according to new research published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Infectious Diseases, World News, Uganda, Africa

MoneyWeek

Join the scramble for riches in the Mekong region

In June 1866, an adventurous French expedition consisting of two steam-driven gunboats, filled with liquor, flour, guns and other goods, left Saigon and headed up the Mekong River to find a new inland way to China.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Southeast Asia, World News, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia

SciDev.Net

US$100 chip may ease diagnosis of 15 tropical disease

Ng says the VereTrop biochip, which took three years to develop, can detect and identify 26 different types of pathogens that cause 15 types of disease from whole blood or serum samples.

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AlertNet

Quick view

The elimination of malaria has closely followed patterns of urban growth over the past century, raising hope that booming urbanisation in developing nations will lead to further reductions in cases of what is still one of the world's top killers, says a study.

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