Researchers at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have found that stopping mass drug administration for Lymphatic ...

CAAT, Cellular Automated Analysis Technique; LAMP, Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification; LFA, Lymphocyte Function-Associated Antigen; POC, Point-of-care tests. Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) ...

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) continue to impose a disproportionate burden on low and middle income countries (LMICs), where constrained health ...

The efforts of a research team give hope for new treatment approaches for dangerous tropical diseases. The researchers have compiled a high-precision inventory of the membrane proteins of cell ...

Nina Notman meets the scientists developing recombinant antivenoms and small molecule inhibitors to save the lives and limbs of snakebite patients, who number in the their hundreds of thousands ...

For close to two decades, the U.S. Agency for International Development has partnered with countries around the world to combat neglected tropical diseases, or NTDs. The term refers to a group of ...

Leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical disease prevalent across 90 countries, affects approximately 12 million people worldwide, with 350 million more at risk of infection. Caused by unicellular ...

Back in 2017, a new law was enacted, known as the FDA Reauthorization Act (FDARA), which contained not only the new user fee programs for pharmaceuticals, medical devices, generics and biosimilars, ...

Melioidosis is a little-known tropical disease now seen as an emerging global public health threat. The disease is caused by bacteria that live in soil and groundwater, and no vaccine exists to ...

Researchers from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, in collaboration with the University of Liverpool, Médecins Sans Frontières, and the Noma Children’s Hospital, have identified a previously ...

If left untreated, one-third of people infected with Chagas Disease—including women and the children they carry—will develop ...

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