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...committee at the school was formed last year to investigate charges that Sultan plagiarized on a National Institutes of Health grant application to study chemical genetics and malaria drug development, Herman said. The results from HSPH’s inquiry committee were turned over to the government’s Public Health Service, an agency that investigates issues of scientific misconduct...
...report issued last month by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI), a watchdog agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, said that Sultan plagiarized text, data and images on the grant application and had additionally tried to falsify the results for one experiment on malaria strains...
Dangerous malaria-carrying mosquitoes in Africa have a new foe: the next-generation Olyset bed net, which is made of a durable plastic weave impregnated with the insecticide permethrin and stays potent for five years. Lighter, cheaper and more colorful than previous versions, the Nguvu ya Ajabu (Swahili for Magic Power) is being manufactured in Tanzania for cost-effective distribution. Also new: curtains and door screens cut from the same material...
Along with larger epidemics such as the West Nile virus and malaria, Pollack has compiled droves of research inspired by public concern about lice. He focuses on lice that feed on human blood, particularly the familiar childhood nuisance of head lice...
Victories in the global fight against malaria are few and far between, so researchers cheered the news that a vaccine being tested in Africa protected children from the disease 30% of the time and lessened the severity of illness in nearly 60% of cases. The vaccine isn't ready for use yet, even if the world can ill afford to wait. The 300 million to 500 million malaria cases each year cause 1 million to 3 million deaths, most of them kids...