Archive for Diseases Category
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Tuberculosis TB
Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne infectious disease that is preventable and curable. The World Health Organization (WHO) is working to dramatically reduce the burden of TB, and halve TB deaths and prevalence by 2015, through its Stop TB Strategy and supporting the Global Plan to Stop TB. How common is TB, and who gets it? Over eight million new cases[...]
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Malaria Vaccine Research Promising
ScienceDaily (Feb. 6, 2010) — A new vaccine to prevent the deadly malaria infection has shown promise to protect the most vulnerable patients—young children—against the disease, according to an international team of researchers led by the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) and the Malaria Research and Training Center at the University of Bamako in[...]
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Natural Remedy for Swine Flu
“The increasing acceptance of herbal medicinal plants for the treatment of a variety of ailments is reflected in the increase in research activity and in the increasing number of scientific publications on phytotherapy,” says Estie Schreiber, marketing director of SA Natural Products and distributor of the A.Vogel ‘Echinaforce’ range in South Africa. “Recent groundbreaking research by a group of internationally-reputed, independent[...]
