Study reviews dengue vaccine candidates
A new study has evaluated the 12 potential vaccines against dengue fever, discussing the challenges facing their development.
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases
3 November 2009 | ES
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A new study has evaluated the 12 potential vaccines against dengue fever, discussing the challenges facing their development.
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases
3 November 2009 | ES
Nutrient-rich foods could combat malnutrition — but getting from the lab to the plate is proving a challenge.
Source: The Scientist
Priya Shetty explains the links between climate change and insect-borne disease, and outlines priorities for developing country policymakers.
Modelling how climate change might affect insect-borne disease is hugely complex — and increasingly controversial, explains Justine Davies.
Many HIV vaccines and microbicides have failed clinical trials and HIV researchers say the field needs to get back to basics.
Source: Nature Medicine
The WHO director-general on the first pandemic in four decades and the battle to get drugs and vaccines to the developing world.
Source: The Guardian
It is a hundred years since the discovery of Chagas disease — and in some ways it has been a lost century, say campaigners.
17 July 2009 | EN
Persuading Cambodian river-dwellers to use a newly designed floating toilet instead of the river could cut soaring diarrhoea rates.
Source: IRIN
14 July 2009 | EN
A proposal for tackling dengue fever has caused controversy because it would involve releasing GM mosquitoes into the wild.
Source: Newsweek
30 June 2009 | EN
The executive director of the Gates Foundation tells SciDev.Net why he is throwing conventional research proposals into the bin.
A tiny solar-powered microscope with no lens could be a cheap and disposable alternative for malaria diagnosis
Source: Nature
8 June 2009 | EN
The United States should invest in developing-world health and science for diplomatic and ethical reasons, argues one of its top science advisers.
Source: The Times
Scientists are monitoring people at risk of catching diseases from animals, in the hope of preventing a pandemic
Source: Scientific American
As tuberculosis strains that are resistant to all known drugs continue to emerge, scientists are trying new approaches to drug development.
Source: Scientific American
Polio is still with us, and scientists are having to rethink vaccination strategies for developing countries in the hope of eradication.
Source: Science
12 February 2009 | EN
A Danish company is proving that there is profit to be made in making products for the poor, including a 'straw' that makes water drinkable.
Source: International Herald Tribune
6 February 2009 | EN
Text messaging to ensure that TB patients in developing countries take their medication every day is showing promise in trials.
Source: The Lancet
8 January 2009 | EN
Developing countries are attractive places to run clinical trials, but in many places ethical oversight falls short.
Source: Science
A peanut butter-like paste has been proposed to curb childhood malnutrition, but critics claim there is little evidence for its success.
Source: Science
Rapid diagnostic tests potentially present a quick, easy-to-use solution for improved malaria diagnosis. But are they the way to go?
25 September 2008 | EN