Millions of young children get malaria. These two got it in 2010. AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam September 16, 2019 There’s a way for modern medicine to cure diseases even when the treatments aren’t profitable James Leahy, University of South Florida There’s a big market for new treatments for TB, malaria and other ailments. But most of these diseases afflict low-income people unable to pay for medicine.
Venezuelans demonstrate outside a children’s hospital in Caracas. MIGUEL GUTIERREZ/EPA February 22, 2019 Venezuela: region’s infectious crisis is a disaster of hemispheric proportions Martin Llewellyn, University of Glasgow New survey of insect-borne disease in Venezuela.
Nature’s little vampire: the kissing bug. Glenn Seplak/flickr March 14, 2016 How we discovered that deadly ‘vampire’ kissing bugs love cherry tomatoes, too Rod Dillon, Lancaster University Could this be a solution to the global Chagas disease epidemic?