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Measles Deaths Worldwide Drop By Nearly 40% Over Five Years

...ast 90% in every district and to ensure that every child from nine months to 14 years of age receives a "se...replicate this successful model as we tackle other child killers such as malaria,?Bellamy said, noting that in late 2004, Togo’s children received four life-...

NIAID begins clinical trial of West Nile virus vaccine

...lants and breastfeeding, as well as from mother to child during pregnancy. Most people experience no symptoms or only mild symptoms, such as fever, headache and body aches; more serious cases can lead to infections of the brain and nervous system, such as encephalitis or meningitis. In 2004, 2,470 cases of...

Study: 'homemade' gene expression technology unreliable

...t of Pediatrics focuses on neurotoxicogenomics and child health. Srinivasa Nagalla, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics, and cell and developmental biology, OHSU School of Medicine, led the initial bioinformatics research that supported the Nature Methods publication. "The gene chip is a revolution i...

New Estimates For The Causes Of Child Deaths Worldwide

The most accurate estimates of the causes of child deaths to date, published in the March 26, 2005 of...l that worldwide more than 70% of the 10.6 million child deaths that occur annually are attributable to six causes: pneumonia (19%), diarrhoea (18%), malaria...

Infants With Rare Genetic Disease Saved by Cord Blood Stem Cells

...ogical, cognitive and physical development of each child with Krabbe Disease before and after transplant. ...ed from discarded placentas (afterbirth) following child birth. Adult bone marrow must be harvested from living donors through an invasive surgical procedure...

Molecular models advance the fight against malaria

...mote awareness of the disease in a country where a child is killed every 30 seconds by malaria. Investigating ways to counter the mutations and sustain the efficacy of anti-malarial drugs, Trumpower and his colleagues continued their work on previous studies using yeast enzymes to explore atovaquone resis...

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