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7.4 million Ghanaians may go blind if...

More than 7.4 million Ghanaians aged 30 years and above, representing 32.2 per cent of the population, are estimated to have glaucoma. Currently, there are about 220,000 Ghanaians blinded through various other causes such as...

Sightsavers' Catherine Cross Recognised For Achievements In Combating Blindness

The prestigious 2008 Mectizan® Award, awarded by global pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. , Inc. in recognition of the efforts of an individual in the fight to eliminate river blindness, has been awarded to Catherine Cross, a...

Robotic Suit for Persons with Mobility Problems and Other Health News

A robotic suit that reads brain signals and helps people with mobility problems will be available to rent in Japan for US$2,200 (S$3,217) a month starting on Friday. "What we found in this study is that if an infant had a fan...

Hayley Westenra Returns From UNICEF Trip To Ghana

UNICEF’s youngest ever Ambassador Hayley Westenra has returned from a recent trip to Ghana, where she witnessed the needs of some of the poorest children in the world for safe water and education. The New Zealand-born...

Glaxo’s drive against filariasis

Drug-maker GlaxoSmithKline is setting up a new manufacturing line at Nashik as part of its global corporate social responsibility, contributing towards world-wide efforts to tackle Lymphatic Filariasis by 2020. The new...

A glass half-full

Is Egypt on the right track towards meetings its international Millennium Development Goals, asks Mona El-Fiqi Half-way between the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 as a framework for spurring...

Elephantiasis elimination program on track: study (Reuters)

Reuters - An international effort to eliminate elephantiasis is on track and has protected millions of children against the disfiguring disease, proving to be one of the "best buys" in public health, researchers said on Wednesday.

Elimination of elephantiasis

In the ten years since its initiation, the international effort to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF) has made a large impact towards ridding the world of one of its most debilitating diseases. A new analysis finds that the LF...

GSK, Merck drug gifts reining in tropical disease

A global program to eliminate a parasitic tropical disease that causes disabling swelling has protected millions of newborns and prevented millions more infected people from developing crippling elephantiasis, researchers...

A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Safety and Efficacy of Combined...

By Hou, Xun-Ya McManus, Donald P; Gray, Darren J; Balen, Julie; Luo, Xin-Song; He, Yong-Kang; Ellis, Magda; Williams, Gail M; Li, Yue- Sheng Objective To evaluate the safety and efficacy of combining artemether (AM) and...

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