Common Diseases - Medical Articles

VALHALLA, N.Y., July 26 (UPI) -- Babesiosis, a rare malaria-like disease commonly transmitted by infected deer ticks, is on the rise in the Lower Hudson Valley in New York, doctors say. New York - Hud ...

Malaria has always been characterised by high fever accompanied by chills and shivering. But with the vivax strain of the malaria parasite undergoing genetic mutation in the past few years, patients a ...

JAMA. 2010;304(4):398. doi:10.1001/jama.2010.971 Scientists studying how the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum multiplies and escapes from an infected blood cell and spreads throughout the body h ...

Cheryl Cole is to help raise funds to fight the spread of malaria in Africa, Contact Music reports. Cole herself contracted the illness during a trip to Tanzania in June, and now plans to use her expe ...

Thank you for inviting me to address this working session of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance. In April 2008, the Secretary-General set a goal of providing universal access to malaria control inte ...

Humanity's deadliest enemies may well be its oldest and most adaptable: the parasite plasmodium, which causes malaria. More than 250 million people contract malaria every year and around a million die ...

On the final day of the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010 Friday, Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria called upon "China, India and ...