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Traditional Uses, Phytochemistry, and Bioactivities of Cananga odorata (Ylang-Ylang).
Authors: Tan LT, Lee LH, Yin WF, Chan CK, Abdul Kadir H, Chan KG, Goh BH Abstract Ylang-ylang (Cananga odorata Hook. F. & Thomson) is one of the plants that are exploited at a large scale for its essential oil which is an important raw material for the fragrance industry. The essential oils extracted via steam distillation from the plant have been used mainly in cosmetic industry but also in food industry. Traditionally, C. odorata is used to treat malaria, stomach ailments, asthma, gout, and rheumatism. The essential oils or ylang-ylang oil is used in aromatherapy and is believed to be effective in treating de...
Source: Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine - August 23, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Source Type: research

Nigeria: Health Workers Waste Malaria Medicines-Research
[Daily Trust] New research into treatment of malaria suggests trained health workers are wasting anti-malaria drugs by prescribing the medicine to patients who do not have malaria.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 31, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news

ECTMIH 2015: European congress on tropical medicine and international health ECTMIH
(Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute) Ebola, malaria and similar diseases, weak health systems, the threat of drug resistance: the European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health in Basel from 6th to 10th September 2015 with more than 1,800 congress participants from 95 countries will discuss the most pressing global health problems. It connects science, governments, non-governmental organizations, and industry and provides a platform for finding solutions to global health problems.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - September 6, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

New Vaccines for the World's Poorest People.
Abstract The 2000 Millennium Development Goals helped stimulate the development of life-saving childhood vaccines for pneumococcal and rotavirus infections while greatly expanding coverage of existing vaccines. However, there remains an urgent need to develop new vaccines for HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, as well as for respiratory syncytial virus and those chronic and debilitating (mostly parasitic) infections known as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The NTDs represent the most common diseases of people living in extreme poverty and are the subject of this review. The development of NTD vaccines, inclu...
Source: Annual Review of Medicine - September 3, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Hotez PJ, Bottazzi ME, Strych U Tags: Annu Rev Med Source Type: research

Nobel Prize for medicine awarded to malaria and parasites drug scientists
Nobel judges in Stockholm, Sweden, awarded the prestigious prize to Irish-born William Campbell, Satoshi Omura, of Japan, and Tu Youyou - the first-ever Chinese medicine laureate.
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Beating parasites wins three scientists Nobel prize for medicine
STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - Three scientists from Japan, China and Ireland whose discoveries led to the development of potent new drugs against parasitic diseases including malaria and elephantiasis won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday.
Source: Reuters: Health - October 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

Beating Parasites Wins 3 Scientists Nobel Prize for MedicineBeating Parasites Wins 3 Scientists Nobel Prize for Medicine
Three scientists from Japan, China and Ireland whose discoveries led to the development of potent new drugs against parasitic diseases including malaria and elephantiasis won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday. Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - October 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news

2015 Nobel Prize In Medicine Awarded For Discovery Of Malaria, River Blindness Drugs From Nature
This year's medicine prize surprisingly goes to scientists who discovered drugs for parasitic infections causing elephantiasis, river blindness, and malaria.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - October 5, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: David Kroll Source Type: news

Nobel Prizes in Medicine Awarded for Infectious-Disease Drugs
Scientists from Ireland, Japan and China won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries relating to therapies against infections caused by roundworm parasites and malaria.
Source: WSJ.com: Health - October 5, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PAID Source Type: news

2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi ?mura for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites and the other half to Youyou Tu for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - October 5, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news

William C Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Youyou Tu win Nobel prize in medicine
Campbell and Ōmura win for their work on a therapy against roundworm, sharing the prize with Tu for her work on a therapy against malariaThree scientists from Ireland, Japan and China have won the Nobel prize in medicine for discoveries that helped doctors fight malaria and infections caused by roundworm parasites.Youyou Tu discovered one of the most effective treatments for malaria while working on a secret military project during China’s Cultural Revolution. Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 6, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Nobel prizes People in science Science prizes World news Malaria Society Infectious diseases Medical research Microbiology Source Type: news

Who are the Nobel Prize for medicine winners?
The Nobel prize for medicine award is announced on Monday at the Nobel Assembly, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. The award has gone to William C Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Youyou Tu for their work on developing medicines that fight malaria and infections caused by roundworm parasites. Campbell and Ōmura share an award while Youyou Tu received his own Follow the Guardian’s liveblog on the prize Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 5, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Guardian Staff Tags: Nobel prizes Medical research Science prizes People in science Neuroscience World news Source Type: news

Advances in Parasitic Diseases Win Nobel Prize in Medicine (FREE)
By the Editors Three researchers who discovered treatments against parasitic roundworms and malaria share this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.William …
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - October 6, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

NAS Member and Foreign Associate Receive Nobel Prize in Medicine
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was divided, one half jointly to NAS member William C. Campbell and foreign associate Satoshi Ōmura "for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites" and the other half to Youyou Tu "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria."
Source: News from the National Academies - October 5, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news

William C Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Tu Youyou win Nobel prize in medicine
Campbell and Ōmura win for their work on a therapy against roundworm, sharing the prize with Tu for her work on a therapy against malariaThree scientists from Ireland, Japan and China have won the Nobel prize in medicine for discoveries that helped doctors fight malaria and infections caused by roundworm parasites.Tu Youyou discovered one of the most effective treatments for malaria while working on a secret military project during China’s Cultural Revolution. Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 5, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Nobel prizes People in science Infectious diseases Science prizes World news Malaria Society Medical research Microbiology Source Type: news