Malaria Reprints - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Malaria Reprints write by . This book was released on 1926. Malaria Reprints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Saving Lives, Buying Time
Saving Lives, Buying Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Saving Lives, Buying Time write by Institute of Medicine. This book was released on 2004-09-09. Saving Lives, Buying Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millions of lives and cured billions of debilitating infections. Today, however, these drugs no longer work against the deadliest form of malaria that exists throughout the world. Malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africaâ€"currently just over one million per yearâ€"are rising because of increased resistance to the old, inexpensive drugs. Although effective new drugs called "artemisinins" are available, they are unaffordable for the majority of the affected population, even at a cost of one dollar per course. Saving Lives, Buying Time: Economics of Malaria Drugs in an Age of Resistance examines the history of malaria treatments, provides an overview of the current drug crisis, and offers recommendations on maximizing access to and effectiveness of antimalarial drugs. The book finds that most people in endemic countries will not have access to currently effective combination treatments, which should include an artemisinin, without financing from the global community. Without funding for effective treatment, malaria mortality could double over the next 10 to 20 years and transmission will intensify.
Malaria Reprints
Malaria Reprints - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Malaria Reprints write by . This book was released on 1963. Malaria Reprints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Malaria Control During Mass Population Movements and Natural Disasters
Malaria Control During Mass Population Movements and Natural Disasters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Malaria Control During Mass Population Movements and Natural Disasters write by Program on Forced Migration and Health at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. This book was released on 2003-01-16. Malaria Control During Mass Population Movements and Natural Disasters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Admittedly, the world and the nature of forced migration have changed a great deal over the last two decades. The relevance of data accumulated during that time period can now be called into question. The roundtable and the Program on Forced Migration at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University have commissioned a series of epidemiological reviews on priority public health problems for forced migrants that will update the state of knowledge. Malaria Control During Mass Population Movements and Natural Disasters- the first in the series, provides a basic overview of the state of knowledge of epidemiology of malaria and public health interventions and practices for controlling the disease in situations involving forced migration and conflict.
The Malaria Project
The Malaria Project - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Malaria Project write by Karen M. Masterson. This book was released on 2014-10-07. The Malaria Project available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating and shocking historical exposé, The Malaria Project is the story of America's secret mission to combat malaria during World War II—a campaign modeled after a German project which tested experimental drugs on men gone mad from syphilis. American war planners, foreseeing the tactical need for a malaria drug, recreated the German model, then grew it tenfold. Quickly becoming the biggest and most important medical initiative of the war, the project tasked dozens of the country’s top research scientists and university labs to find a treatment to remedy half a million U.S. troops incapacitated by malaria. Spearheading the new U.S. effort was Dr. Lowell T. Coggeshall, the son of a poor Indiana farmer whose persistent drive and curiosity led him to become one of the most innovative thinkers in solving the malaria problem. He recruited private corporations, such as today's Squibb and Eli Lilly, and the nation’s best chemists out of Harvard and Johns Hopkins to make novel compounds that skilled technicians tested on birds. Giants in the field of clinical research, including the future NIH director James Shannon, then tested the drugs on mental health patients and convicted criminals—including infamous murderer Nathan Leopold. By 1943, a dozen strains of malaria brought home in the veins of sick soldiers were injected into these human guinea pigs for drug studies. After hundreds of trials and many deaths, they found their “magic bullet,” but not in a U.S. laboratory. America 's best weapon against malaria, still used today, was captured in battle from the Nazis. Called chloroquine, it went on to save more lives than any other drug in history. Karen M. Masterson, a journalist turned malaria researcher, uncovers the complete story behind this dark tale of science, medicine and war. Illuminating, riveting and surprising, The Malaria Project captures the ethical perils of seeking treatments for disease while ignoring the human condition.
