Word: malariae
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Anxiety over SARS is justified, but it reveals our lack of perspective. SARS has resulted in hundreds of deaths, but tuberculosis kills 5,000 people each day. Malaria causes more than 300 million acute illnesses and 1 million deaths each year. Influenza kills 36,000 Americans annually, and 42,000 Americans die each year in car accidents. Where is the outcry over these deaths, most of which could be prevented through better health care and health education? SAM CHAN Deerfield...
...known SARS deaths so far, the worldwide toll is tiny compared with, say, the 3 million people who died of AIDS last year. But if SARS continues to spread, its numbers could skyrocket. Its overall death rate of about 6% is far lower than that of AIDS, Ebola or malaria, but if enough people catch the illness, even a low rate could cause a catastrophe. The Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-19 had a death rate of less than 3%, but so many people became infected that it killed more than 20 million people in just 18 months...
...work or not," says Nathan Ford of Doctors Without Borders, a group pushing hard to loosen restrictions on generics. So far, it isn't working. The U.S. pharmaceutical industry, with American sales of $192 billion last year, is keen to limit imported generic drugs to those treating malaria, TB and aids, fearing a broader agreement could create a generic market in lucrative "lifestyle drugs" like Viagra. Worse, they fear generics could migrate back to countries where patents are protected. Of course, developing countries would have more money to pay for drugs if they could sell their produce on a world...
...only our genes we are learning to play with. What if we could create mosquitoes, those flying hypodermics, that instead of spreading malaria spread a vaccine protecting humans against it? Back in 1965, scientists fused mouse and human cells. Today whole animals are being patented; pigs are bred with human cells in hope of finding a source of organ transplants for the 70,000 people on waiting lists in this country alone. And that raises the question: If an Australian biotech company creates a creature that is part human, part pig, what law would apply to it? Should a company...
When you're fighting in the jungle, malaria can be as deadly as artillery. So when China waged a brief war against Vietnam in 1979, Beijing issued its troops a crude anti-malarial pill based on a traditional Chinese medicine?and it worked. Today, hopes are high that a similar folk-remedy-derived treatment might help wipe out the disease. Scientists at the Mekong Malaria Symposium, held last week in Cambodia, announced that early clinical trials of the new drug Artekin eradicated malaria parasites in 95% to 100% of patients tested. And Artekin costs just $1.20 per dose, one-third...