Disease in the Developing World

Majority of Chinese who were diagnosed with hypertension and/or type 2 diabetes in 2011 said they were unaware of having the diseases years later in 2015 April 25, 2019 -- Awareness and diagnoses of hypertension and diabetes in China has…

Wearable technology will monitor respiratory rate among new-born babies An innovative wearable sensor to monitor new-born babies in poor areas is being developed by Anglia Ruskin University, in collaboration with experts in Jordan.…

Credit: Kanazawa University Ulaanbaatar is often called the world's coldest capital city because the temperature can reach ?40 °C on winter nights. The harsh climate causes each household in a ger (a traditional Mongolian house) to…

By 2050, health spending in US expected to exceed $15,000 per person; Somalia, the lowest at $19; In 2016, health spending in high-income countries was 130 times more per person than in low-income countries SEATTLE - One in six countries…

New research from the University of Sydney has found the severity of febrile seizures following vaccination is no different to febrile seizures from another cause, such as from a virus, and that the majority of seizures are short-lived,…

The University of South Florida will work with researchers in Thailand and Myanmar to assess whether mass treatment with the drug primaquine can prevent relapses of Plasmodium vivax malaria along the borders of those two Greater Mekong…

Scientists isolate slow-growing variant Lyme bacteria forms that caused severe symptoms, resisted standard single-antibiotic Lyme treatment in the mouse model A new study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public…

Washington, DC - April 23, 2019 - A new study has identified no major differences between the microbiomes of people infected with roundworm or hookworm and uninfected peers. The investigators found no evidence that curing either of these…

Credit: QIMR Berghofer Researchers at QUT and QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute have found that the dengue fever mosquito common to north and central Queensland poses the greatest danger of spreading the Zika virus in…

TB is a global epidemic responsible for 1.6 million deaths in 2017 Regimens under clinical development include treatment options for drug-resistant forms of TB NEW YORK, HERTFORDSHIRE, England and PITTSBURGH - April 18, 2019 -…