PATH and SD/Alere announce commercial availability of two diagnostic tools...
PATH and Standard Diagnostics/Alere announced today the commercial availability of two rapid diagnostic tools for onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis. Designed for use in disease surveillance, the...
View ArticleControlling corneal blindness by 2030: an interview with Dr Pravin Vaddavalli
Corneal blindness is estimated to be the second most prevalent cause of blindness in many less developed countries. Globally, bilateral corneal blindness is estimated to afflict 4.9 million persons and...
View ArticleResearchers sequence genome of parasitic worm that causes river blindness
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the parasitic worm responsible for causing onchocerciasis--an eye and skin infection more commonly known as river blindness.
View ArticleVaxine’s unique adjuvants boost effectiveness of vaccines for battling...
SUGAR-based adjuvants from Australia are boosting the effectiveness of vaccines to target some of the world’s deadliest diseases.
View ArticleWHO marching toward extraordinary progress against neglected tropical...
Since 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been reporting outstanding success in dealing with neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) with 1 billion people estimated to have received treatments in...
View ArticleWHO announces new flagship programs for African region over next two years
The World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Africa announced today four new flagship programs for the region over the next two years, including a major push on adolescent health and the...
View ArticleLSTM researchers find new way to reduce treatment for some parasitic diseases
Researchers from LSTM's Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics have found a way of significantly reducing the treatment required for lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis from several weeks to...
View ArticleLoaScope could be valuable approach in the fight against river blindness
River blindness, or onchocerciasis, is a disease caused by a parasitic worm found primarily in Africa. The worm (Onchocerca volvulus) is transmitted to humans as immature larvae through bites of...
View ArticleNeglected tropical diseases to be tackled in Africa’s poorest communities
World Health Organization and Uniting to Combat NTDs collaborate to tackle the five most common Neglected tropical diseases; onchocerciasis, trachoma, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis and...
View ArticleResearchers use smartphone to diagnose people infected with Loa loa worm
The Berkeley researchers figured out that they could quickly determine who has the Loa loa worm using a smartphone, customized to work like a microscope. They could then skip the medication for those...
View ArticleScientists develop urine diagnostic to detect parasitic worms that cause...
Scientists at Scripps Research have developed a urine diagnostic to detect the parasitic worms that cause river blindness, also called onchocerciasis, a tropical disease that afflicts 18 to 120 million...
View ArticleLSTM led partnership receives funding to develop drug for treating two...
An LSTM led partnership has been awarded nearly £1.5 million from the Medical Research Council for the pre-clinical development of a candidate drug to treat onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis, by...
View ArticleNew anti-Wolbachia drug could potentially treat onchocerciasis and lymphatic...
Researchers from LSTM and the University of Liverpool have successfully optimized a hit from a whole cell screening of a 10000-compound library to deliver the first novel fully synthetic and rationally...
View ArticleScientists create new models of tropical eye worm for development of...
Researchers at the LSTM's Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics, and University of Buea, Cameroon have developed new models of the tropical eye worm, Loa loa for the development of new drugs against...
View ArticleResearchers receive $5 million to study two types of parasitic infection
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received two grants from the National Institutes of Health totaling more than $5 million to study two types of parasitic worm...
View ArticleIllustrations by Nigerian artist kickstart debate on neglected tropical disease
Illustrations by a local artist in Nigeria are helping health workers and policy makers understand what it's really like to live with a neglected tropical disease (NTD).
View ArticleStudy reveals onchocerciasis can be eliminated by adapting new measures and...
A report on onchocerciasis (also known as river blindness) shows continued global progress towards achieving interruption of transmission of the disease.
View ArticleWorld Health Organization, Sanofi sign new agreement to eliminate neglected...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and Sanofi – one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies – have signed a new agreement for donations of medicines to sustain specific efforts to eliminate...
View ArticleResearchers identify traditional Ghanaian medicines to eradicate neglected...
The discovery of new drugs is vital to achieving the eradication of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Africa and around the world.
View ArticleResearchers receive $2.95 million grant to create improved diagnostics for...
Global campaigns to eliminate two tropical parasitic worm infections have been hindered by a lack of good diagnostic tools.
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