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Critical reforms of IMF policies demanded

Earlier this month the Group of Twenty (G-20) leaders had announced a USD 1.1 trillion booster-dose into the world economy by the end of 2010 through multilateral institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Health advocates believe that critical reforms are needed for IMF policies to prevent disastrous fallouts like rising tuberculosis (TB) incidence in countries that might receive IMF funding. .… Continue

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Malaria death in Zambia decline by 66%
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48746
Malaria deaths reported from health facilities in Zambia have declined by 66%. This result along with other supporting data indicates that Zambia has reached the 2010 Roll Back Malaria target of a more than 50% reduction in malaria mortality compared to 2000.

Scientists identify dozens of proteins the dengue fever virus depends upon
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48730
By painstakingly silencing genes one at a time, scientists at Duke University Medical Center have identified dozens of proteins the dengue fever virus depends upon to grow and spread among mosquitoes and humans.

Researchers create chemicals that kill the most deadly malaria-causing parasite
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48721
Researchers at the University of Leeds have developed chemicals which kill the most deadly malaria-causing parasite, Plasmodium falciparum - including those resistant to existing drugs.

Why an effective vaccine for HIV has proven so elusive
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48704
Some 25 years after the AIDS epidemic spawned a worldwide search for an effective vaccine against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), progress in the field seems to have effectively become stalled.

New Dengue virus discovery could lead to development of anti-dengue drugs
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48689
Doctors have no specific drugs to treat dengue fever, a viral illness spread by mosquitoes that sickens 50 million to 100 million people worldwide each year. Instead, the only treatments they can recommend for this painful and sometimes fatal illness (20,000 deaths globally each year) are fluids, rest and non-aspirin pain and fever reducers.

Improved medical ultrasounds
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48663
A key part of a medical ultrasound scanner is the transducer probe used to convert sound waves to electrical signals and vice versa.

New insights into how to combat avian flu
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48643
An in-depth analysis of blood from patients recovering from the H5N1 avian influenza virus has provided important insights into how to combat the potentially lethal virus.

Early treatment for hepatitis C offers a good chance of a cure
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48624
Australian researchers say as many as 70% of hepatitis C carriers can possibly be cured of the disease with early treatment - this is excellent news as hepatitis C, if left untreated can lead to serious liver disease.

Humanized mouse infected with HIV vaginally and rectally allows testing
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48576
The "humanized mouse" developed by Dr. J. Victor Garcia-Martinez has allowed the University of Texas Southwestern physician-scientist to conduct HIV/AIDS studies that would have been impossible without such a small animal model of HIV infection.

An African child dies every 30 seconds from Malaria
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48442
An African child dies every 30 seconds from this same disease; nearly a half billion people become ill because of it. About 1 million children under the age of 5 die each year from malaria -- a disease that is entirely preventable.

South Australian hospital battles to contain superbug VRE
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48429
The cancer ward at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) in South Australia is currently battling to cope with an antibiotic-resistant bacteria called Vanocomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE), a form of bacteria which lives in the gut.

NIH grants will strengthen fight against HIV/AIDS-tuberculosis
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48425
The Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health today announced it will award $11.75 million over five years in grants to institutions to strengthen the fight against HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in Haiti, Uganda and China and establish a new program in Tanzania.

New updated clinical guidelines for HIV-associated opportunistic infections
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48424
The first complete update in five years of the U.S. guidelines for preventing and treating HIV-associated opportunistic infections has been released by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in cooperation with the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).

Tijuana injection drug users on collision course for HIV and tuberculosis
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48416
A study by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, in collaboration with Mexican researchers and health officials, shows that as many as 67 percent of injection drug users in Tijuana test positive for tuberculosis (TB) infection.

Federal funding for partnership to combat infectious diseases
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48403
Oregon Health & Science University and the University of Washington, along with a number of partner institutions across the Northwest, have received federal funding to form a regional research center aimed at combating emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases that pose a serious threat to human health.

Prenatal exposure to influenza virus shown to reduce intelligence in adulthood
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48406
The Hong Kong flu pandemic was responsible for more than 700,000 deaths worldwide in the late 1960s, with major disease outbreaks in Europe in the winter of 1969-1970.

Major breakthrough in understanding of Hendra virus
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48394
Groundbreaking CSIRO research into how the deadly Hendra virus spreads promises to save the lives of both horses and humans in the future.

Discovery of a new target for novel HIV treatment strategy
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48388
The AIDS-causing HIV specifically counteracts the mechanisms of human cells that protect these against viral infections - a special viral protein marks protective cellular proteins for their rapid destruction and thus diminishes the cell's supply.

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