Sentences with phrase «tropical medicine»

How has the field of tropical medicine progressed over the years?

I am a scientist who works on medicines for tropical medicine.

These little beasts probably got their big teeth before evolving venom, says Nicholas Casewell of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in England.

Targeted investments in five areas of research are needed to create a pipeline for innovative disease - control tools, argues Hotez of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, and Texas Children's Hospital, in order to help the world's poorest people.

«We now see this very successful resistant parasite lineage emerging, outcompeting its peers, and spreading over a wide area,» said Arjen Dondorp, of the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Thailand, who co-led the work.

There she met malariologist Nick White of the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok.

Dr Nick Feasey, from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine said: «The rise of antibiotic resistance among Salmonellae in Africa is a major threat and concern.

She received her PhD at the National Institute for Medical Research investigating gene regulation in mycobacteria followed by postdoctoral research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine studying several facets of the biology of M. tuberculosis.

Section Clinical Tropical Medicine, Department for Infectious Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Estrella Lasry was readying her presentation on three years worth of malaria data in west Africa when she received an e-mail disinviting her to a major tropical medicine conference taking place in Louisiana next week.

The Founder of Wellbeing noted that the WBFA's training was organised in partnership with Johnson & Johnson and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine as the global standard of «hands - on» teaching which is saving lives and helping mothers and infants to thrive.

Researchers from York's department of Social Policy and Social Work and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine brought together a global community of researchers and writers to produce the «Handbook on Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility».

Researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine found Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites with a mutation to the gene Ap2mu were less sensitive to the antimalarial drug artemisinin.

A survey by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine unearthed that only 63.8 % of primary school pupils regularly washed their hands with soap at school, a figure which dropped to 39 % for secondary school pupils.

She recently worked at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where she originally studied nutrition.

Ahead of the release of the new London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine report «How alcohol industry organisations mislead the public about alcohol and cancer», please find the following statement issued by the Institute of Alcohol Studies, below (in bold).

The idea for this collaboration grew out of conversations Piermarini had with Pedro Kourí Institute researchers Juan Bisset and Domingo Montada at an August symposium in Cuba that AAAS, the Cuban Academy and Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine co-organized.

Researchers led by Dr Alan Dangour at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine conducted a trial of 201 people aged over 75 years.

In an accompanying editorial, researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine welcome today's study, but say it would be «premature to recommend the routine use of tranexamic acid in general and orthopaedic surgery.»

Tropical medicine physician Jeremy Farrar — head of the London - based Wellcome Trust, and one of the expert trio who had called for use of the medicines — said that the WHO's decision to hold a discussion on ethical use of experimental Ebola treatments «a very welcome step in the right direction.»

Ronald Ross of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine originated World Mosquito Day in 1897.

Maria Elena Bottazzi leads the research, education and administration efforts of the school, is a Professor of Pediatric Tropical Medicine and the Deputy Director for the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development.

Using a selection of disgusting images, Valerie Curtis at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discovered a universal disgust towards faeces, with vomit, pus, spit and a variety of insects following close behind in the revulsion stakes.

In a study published in PLOS ONE today, a team of researchers led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine show for the first time that female mosquitoes infected with malaria parasites are significantly more attracted to human odour than uninfected mosquitoes.

An international team of researchers led by epidemiologist Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine recently tested an inexpensive drug called tranexamic acid (TXA) in a trial involving more than 20,000 trauma cases in 40 countries.

Researchers from the University of Leeds and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine looked at the health of 39 557 children born to 18 131 male workers at 15 nuclear sites, including Sellafield in Cumbria, Dounreay in Caithness and Aldermaston in Berkshire.

Welcome to the state - of - the - art Tropical Medicine...

Preliminary results from the first month of the Flusurvey run by scientists at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine indicate that flu is yet to take hold of the UK, with just 6,000 cases per 100,000 people reported, compared to 12,000 cases per 100,000 people for the same period in 2012.

So at the presentation last night here at the American Society of Tropical Medicine meetings Armand Sprecher touched on some of the data that they had that some of the younger kids, so children under five, the death rates were high for that group.

The work by scientists from Colorado State University is one of several new Zika - related studies being presented at the world's largest gathering of tropical medicine experts, including probing the implications of having three mosquito - borne viruses — dengue, Zika and chikungunya — circulating in the Americas and parts of Asia at the same time.

«Tropical medicine scientists must continue to be vigilant on the front - lines of these outbreaks and provide new and beneficial insights for physicians around the world.

So researchers at the University of Cambridge, University College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine set out to estimate the health impacts of London's cycle hire scheme on its users.

But researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine wondered whether animals might play a bigger role in transmitting HAT gambiense.

Prof. Jimmy Whitworth: Jimmy Whitworth directs the ERAES programme (Enhancing Research Activity in Epidemic Situations) at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine which is supported by the Wellcome Trust to provide funding for urgent research during outbreaks.

London Applied & Spatial Epidemiology Reseach Group (LASER) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK

And in 1989, researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine decided to re-evaluate the link between salt and blood pressure through a study of more than 10,000 people in 52 cultures around the world.

According to Roberts and his London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine colleague Phil Edwards, the fatties have to take the blame for not only climate change but also for panic - du jour, the global food crisis.

An unnamed scientist at the Bernard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany, pricked her finger with a syringe during an experiment earlier this month.

Ebola expert Daniel Bausch, a professor in the Department of Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, has been consulting with groups including the World Health Organization to ramp up its Ebola response.

A researcher at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany, was put in isolation last week after pricking herself with a syringe containing the Ebola virus.

Heidi Larson is an anthropologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who studies public trust in vaccines

We're heading to the remote village of Veal Roulem, which means «rainy field» in Khmer, one of several sites where a team from the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok is wrapping up a pilot study of a radical approach to eliminating malaria.

If you ever wondered whether your sense of being more alert after a cup of coffee was scientific fact or your own fancy, researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine say you were right all along.

Or maybe, says Peto, who is part of the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, better known as MORU, in Bangkok, «it's because we look here first.»

Professor Mark Viney and colleagues from the University of Bristol and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine studied the immune systems of 460 wild mice taken from 12 sites in the UK and compared them with mice bred in captivity.