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• Help Me Buy 1000 Nets

  
  Fork In The Road Music — Authority: 121
  For the past two years I have been supporting the “Nothing But Nets” campaign. The campaign raises money to provide mosquito nets that protect from Malaria with the goal of wiping out the disease on the continent of Africa. When I last checked I had 1300 facebook friends ,   950 fans , and  340 twitter ...
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• Fruit Fly Pheromones

  
  Sound Medicine — Authority: 127
  Lets take a break from human medicine and talk about bugs for a few minutes.Were talking fruit flies. More precisely, were interested in what female fruit flies do after theyre done mating.Theres a serious reason were talking about this: this pheromone research could lead to new ways of controlling insect populations, ...
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• Origins of Malaria

  
  Sound Medicine — Authority: 127
  Malaria has plagued people for thousands of years. And we have no way of preventing it via vaccine. But that may soon change. Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe believes hes solved the mystery of where malaria originated -- a discovery that could lead to a cure.Sound Medicines Dr. David Crabb talks with Nathan Wolfe about his ...
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• Synthetic Biology: Why Not Pursuing Crazy Biotech Is Dangerous [Interview]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 543
    We are at a biological turning point: We can invent organisms to make our drugs and fuel, even recode our DNA. It’s easy to run away screaming, but author Michael Specter says we have to quit whining and face it Continued here: Synthetic Biology: Why Not Pursuing Crazy Biotech Is Dangerous [Interview]
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• M2EP Filmmaker Challenge Winner Goes to Africa

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 642
  Editor’s Note: In anticipation of The Mobilization to End Poverty, World Vision and Sojourners sponsored the first-ever Filmmaker Challenge. Filmmakers from around the country were invited to create a short video (less than four minutes) for YouTube that demonstrates “what…
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• Soccer Goals with United Against Malaria

  
  ONE — Authority: 516
  I recently had a chance to catch-up with Gabrielle Fitzgerald of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which supports the United Against Malaria (UAM) campaign. She graciously gave me the inside scoop on UAM and all that it’s been up to. Check it out!How did you come up with the idea to pair soccer with [...]
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• Advances in malaria research show promise

  
  BreakThrough Digest Medical News — Authority: 436
  Top scientists reveal the latest innovations in genetically modified mosquitoes, new diagnostic tests and mapping mosquito migrations Baltimore, MD (November 12, 2009) In a novel approach at disseminating scientific research, the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute (JHMRI) will hold a web summit to release the ...
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• Advances in malaria research show promise for fight against 1 of the world’s deadliest diseases

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 127
  Top scientists reveal the latest innovations in genetically modified mosquitoes, new diagnostic tests and mapping mosquito migrationsBaltimore, MD (November 12, 2009) – In a novel approach at disseminating scientific research, the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute (JHMRI) will hold a web summit to release the ...
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• MKFC open Health and Sanitation material

  
  Stockholm College — Authority: 124
  MKFC has developed the Open Course Contents, which are freely available for use and anyone can download if you want to use it for your own projects. If you want to know how we use it or if you want to work with health, sanitation, education, and community action for social awareness and sustainable development can ...
  2 days ago

• Malaria and Death or DDT and Life: Pick Just One

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 502
  Suppose we could save a million (human) lives a year, 85% of which were children’s lives, or lose the brown pelican forevermore.  The vast majority of us would opt for the million humans over a bird, I would hope. Sub-Saharan Africans don’t have much of a choice between people over birds.  There ...
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• Malaria and Death or DDT and Life: Pick Just One

  
  Gene's Blog — Authority: 476
  Suppose we could save a million (human) lives a year, 85% of which were children’s lives, or lose the brown pelican forevermore.  The vast majority of us would opt for the million humans over a bird, I would hope. Sub-Saharan Africans don’t have much of a choice between people over birds.  There ...
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• Malaria Mosquitoes

  
  Rocketboom — Authority: 423
  Humanwire correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports on the growing concern of malaria cases in Burkina Faso due to mosquitoes developing resistances to insecticides.
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• Communicating research: a case from vector molecular biology

  
  topnaman | Malaria blog — Authority: 106
  The mosquito vector, and by extension local ecology, drives malaria transmission. So understanding vector biology is important to malaria control. Classical studies of mosquito flight range, feeding preferences, and resting habits were crucial in the development and application of control strategies. Modern vector ...
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• Malaria Week for southern Africa

  
  TropIKA — Authority: 127
  The nations belonging to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have set themselves the goal of eliminating malaria from the region by 2015. To focus attention on the disease and on elimination efforts, next week (beginning 16th November) will be Malaria Week in the region. Events are planned in all the ...
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• Highlighting public-private partnerships

  
  TropIKA — Authority: 127
  Chemical & Engineering News may not sound like a publication where one would expect to find an article describing the phenomenon of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the development of new technologies to address the infectious diseases of poverty. But the latest issue of C&EN does have, as its cover ...
  3 days ago

• Steroids worsened gym instructor’s malaria condition

  
  Anabolic Steroids Blog - iSteroids . com — Authority: 140
  A 25-year-old gym instructor passed away from what the doctors initially believed as mild malaria . However, when doctors examined Mahesh Khokarale’s lab results, it was discovered that his liver was badly damaged. This created doubts since mild malaria rarely cause severe damage to the liver. Doctors ...
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• White House Makes USAID Nomination Official

  
  Buzzwords Blog | News | Malaria No More — Authority: 127
  Yesterday the White House officially announced the nomination of Dr. Rajiv Shah to be be Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development. Read an excerpt from the announcement and the Malaria Policy Center blog: President Obama said, “The mission of USAID is to advance America’s ...
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• Outsourced: The Folly of Words

  
  Kicking Ass Ann Arbor — Authority: 430
  bangalore, india India now has among the world’s largest constellations of remote-sensing satellites. They are sophisticated enough to distinguish healthy coconuts from diseased ones in this region’s thick palms. They can also zero in on deadly mosquitoes lurking in a patch of jungle ( Washington Post ). At ...
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• Burden of Malaria in Pregnancy

  
  Malaria Matters — Authority: 418
  The Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium (MIPc) highlighted its ongoing research activities at the recently held 5th Pan-African Malaria Conference in Nairobi.  While results on issues like new malaria treatment and preventive regimens are still in the works, the MIPc did report on preliminary efforts to measure the ...
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• Meet Charles Ssali

  
  ONE — Authority: 516
  This morning, I joined a 12-year-old Ugandan soccer star, a giant mosquito and the commissioner of Major League Soccer, among many others, for breakfast at the ESPN Zone in Times Square for the U.S. launch of the United Against Malaria campaign.As covered before on the ONE Blog, United Against Malaria is an effort ...
  5 days ago

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