Gates Foundation Commits Nearly $70 Million to Help Fight Neglected...

PR Newswire;  September 14, 2006 ;     700+ words ......medical journal on neglected diseases -- $1.1 million...PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, a new open...on neglected tropical diseases. While other...attention to neglected diseases in recent years...Immunology, and Tropical Diseases at George ...

Gates Foundation Commits Nearly US$70 Million to Help Fight Neglected...

PR Newswire Europe;  September 14, 2006 ;     700+ words ......medical journal on neglected diseases -- US$1.1 million...PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, a new open...on neglected tropical diseases. While other...attention to neglected diseases in recent years...Immunology, and Tropical Diseases at ...

SEN. BROWNBACK APPLAUDS ADOPTION OF NEGLECTED DISEASES AMENDMENT TO FDA...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 10, 2007 ;     350 words ......Brownback-Brown Elimination of Neglected Diseases Amendment to the...approach to eliminating neglected diseases by encouraging pharmaceutical...treat and prevent neglected tropical diseases." Because pharmaceuticals...companies to produce neglected tropical ...

VOA NEWS: WHO DEVELOPING PLAN TO TACKLE NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 19, 2007 ;     453 words ......combat the so-called neglected tropical diseases, which affect more...Geneva. Most of the neglected diseases are caused by parasites...WHO's Director of Neglected Tropical Diseases, Lorenzo Savioli, says...not as easy to ignore neglected diseases if they ...

Taking on neglected diseases.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  October 4, 2006 ;     156 words ......New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Tropical diseases kill millions of people in poor countries...nations met in Kenya to discuss these neglected diseases . These are diseases such as sleeping...Date: 30 September 2006 DRUGS FOR NEGLECTED DISEASES INITIATIVE All copyright ...

VOA NEWS: BUNDLING OF SERVICES USED TO TREAT NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 12, 2007 ;     581 words ......commonly called neglected tropical diseases. These illnesses, such...control other neglected tropical diseases, so they decided to...integrating medicines to treat neglected diseases in Africa, mp3: http...integrating medicines to treat neglected diseases in Africa, ...

Combating tropical diseases.(R&D[TM] Asia)(Novartis is opening Novartis...

R & D;  August 1, 2004 ;     231 words ......recently announced the opening of the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD) in Singapore's new 186,000-[m.sup.2] Biopolis research...the NITD will focus oil advanced biomedical research for neglected diseases, initially dengue lever and drug resistant tuberculosis...

SENS. BROWNBACK, LIEBERMAN INTRODUCE NEGLECTED DISEASES ACT

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 2, 2006 ;     394 words ......today introduced the Elimination of Neglected Diseases Act of 2006, which encourages pharmaceutical...invest in developing treatments for neglected diseases. "In the developing world, millions...contemporary medical capabilities." Neglected diseases like leprosy, hookworm, and ...

Global Health Progress Joins WHO and DNDi to Call For Increased...

U.S. Newswire;  July 8, 2008 ;     505 words ......and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi...the importance of neglected diseases as a global health...security. However, neglected tropical diseases - most of which are...resources to fight neglected diseases such as river blindness...information ...

Scientists call for attention to neglected diseases in developing...

Xinhua News Agency;  June 8, 2005 ;     383 words ...Scientists call for attention to neglected diseases in developing countries NAIROBI...correct the fatal imbalance for neglected diseases. Despite an increased awareness...is a wealth of knowledge about neglected diseases that could be translated into...governments can make this possible ...

Taking Aim at NEGLECTED DISEASES

The Scientist;  June 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ......called the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD) in this Southeast Asian...tuberculosis and dengue fever-two neglected diseases prevalent in the developing world...reduce the risk of these and other tropical diseases, and ultimately, to improve the...drug-discovery science ...

Genzyme Launches Initiative to Assist the Development of Treatments for...

PR Newswire;  April 10, 2006 ;     700+ words ......and advance novel treatments for neglected diseases affecting the developing world. The...company's new Humanitarian Assistance for Neglected Diseases initiative (HAND) will serve as a...increasing activity in the area of neglected diseases as it has in the field of orphan...

Global Health Progress Joins WHO and DNDi to Call For Increased...

PR Newswire Europe;  July 8, 2008 ;     509 words ......and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi...the importance of neglected diseases as a global health...security. However, neglected tropical diseases - most of which are...resources to fight neglected diseases such as river blindness...information ...

Expert suggest the need for operational research on tropical diseases

The Hindustan Times;  November 20, 2005 ;     283 words ......planning to eradicate five neglected tropical diseases from south-east Asia within a period...David Molyneux, an Expert on tropical diseases from the Liverpool school of tropical...operational research is needed to eradicate tropical diseases from the country. Molyneux added...

`Drugs for neglected diseases not given much attention'

New Straits Times;  January 27, 2004 ;     348 words ...New Straits Times 01-27-2004 `Drugs for neglected diseases not given much attention' Edition: Main...health research efforts are devoted to neglected diseases which account for about 90 per cent of...are not economically viable. "Drugs for neglected diseases are a mere trickle compared ...