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UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News 4 Jul 2009 00:02 GMT
... new drug to be tested in three African countries could greatly reduce cases of onchocerciasis, commonly called "river blindness," health officials said. "This is a devastating illness that has plagued 30 African countries ...
WHO introduces new drug for river blindness 3 Jul 2009 22:50 GMT
... Health News of Friday, 3 July 2009 WHO introduces new drug for river blindness Accra, July 3, GNA - A clinical trial to introduce a new drug to ...
New 'river blindness' drug shows promise 3 Jul 2009 17:30 GMT
... new drug to be tested in three African countries could greatly reduce cases of onchocerciasis, commonly called "river blindness," health officials said. "This is a devastating illness that has plagued 30 African countries ...
WHO, Wyeth Launch Trial In Africa To Test New River Blindness Drug 3 Jul 2009 11:10 GMT
... that "could halve the treatment period for river blindness [or onchocerciasis], a disease that threatens 100 ... Amazigo, director of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC), said ( According to the ...
'River Blindness' Threatens 100 Million People 3 Jul 2009 08:02 GMT
... trial is being launched in three African countries of a drug that could eliminate onchocerciasis, or river blindness, one of the leading infectious causes of blindness across Africa, the World Health Organization ...

Africa: River Blindness Drug Enters Final Trials 2 Jul 2009 22:01 GMT
... > Africa: River Blindness Drug Enters Final Trials July 6, 2009 | Vol. 6 No. 129 Africa: River ...
WHO ANNOUNCES START OF CLINICAL TRIAL FOR RIVER BLINDNESS DRUG 2 Jul 2009 12:13 GMT
... WHO ANNOUNCES START OF CLINICAL TRIAL FOR RIVER BLINDNESS DRUG UNITED NATIONS, July 2 (NNN-UNNS) -- ... adult worms of Onchocerca volvulus which cause onchocerciasis – also called river blindness because the ...
New Drug That Could Dramatically Speed Up The Elimination Of River Blindness Across Africa Begins Clinical Trial 2 Jul 2009 08:50 GMT
... trial is being launched in three African countries of a drug that could eliminate onchocerciasis, or river blindness, one of the leading infectious causes of blindness across Africa. The drug, moxidectin, is ...
Moxidectin being tested for onchocerciasis 2 Jul 2009 02:52 GMT
... trial is being launched in three African countries of a drug that could eliminate onchocerciasis, or river blindness, one of the leading infectious causes of blindness across Africa. The drug, moxidectin, is ...
River blindness drug trials planned in Africa 1 Jul 2009 23:31 GMT
... World Health Organization hopes will help eradicate river blindness. The World Health Organization announced it will ... that carry the disease, also known as onchocerciasis. WHO says more than 100 million people ...

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Common Pet Drug May Eradicate River Blindness: WHO 1 Jul 2009 22:40 GMT
... Common Pet Drug May Eradicate River Blindness: WHO Posted on: Wednesday, 1 July 2009, ... said. The condition, whose formal name is onchocerciasis, comes with debilitating symptoms such as loss ...
River blindness drug trial launched 1 Jul 2009 20:31 GMT
... 2009 (IRIN) - Researchers are launching a clinical trial with 1,500 people infected with onchocerciasis (river blindness) in Liberia, Ghana and the Democratic Republic of Congo to test a remedy that ...
Trial of drug to eliminate river blindness in Africa begins 1 Jul 2009 18:22 GMT
... countr ies of Ghana, Liberia and DR Congo of a drug that could eliminate onchocerciasis , or river blindness, one of the leading infectious causes of blindness across Africa, the WHO said in ...
Ban Ki-moon gathers global health experts to improve care for world's poorest 1 Jul 2009 17:50 GMT
... Ban Ki-moon gathers global health experts to improve care ... targeted neglected diseases like guinea worm and river blindness that �can be eliminated if we only ...
UN agency announces start of clinical trial for river blindness drug 1 Jul 2009 17:50 GMT
... agency announces start of clinical trial for river blindness drug A patient's eyes being tested at ... adult worms of Onchocerca volvulus which cause onchocerciasis � also called river blindness because the ...
River blindness drug enters final trials 1 Jul 2009 16:12 GMT
... A blackfly — transmitter of river blindness A drug normally used in animals will ... the worms which cause river blindness, or onchocerciasis — one of the leading infectious causes ...
New drug for speeding up elimination of river blindness across Africa begins clinical trial 1 Jul 2009 16:00 GMT
... New drug for speeding up elimination of river blindness across Africa begins clinical trial London, July ... countries of a drug that could eliminate onchocerciasis, or river blindness, one of the leading ...
New drug raises hope of ending river blindness: WHO 1 Jul 2009 15:50 GMT
... prescribed to pets has raised hopes that river blindness, an infectious disease that threatens 100 million ... that river blindness, whose formal name is onchocerciasis, can be eradicated instead of just controlled. ...
New drug raises hope of ending river blindness - WHO 1 Jul 2009 15:40 GMT
... prescribed to pets has raised hopes that river blindness, an infectious disease that threatens 100 million ... that river blindness, whose formal name is onchocerciasis, can be eradicated instead of just controlled. ...
WHO to start clinical trial on river blindness drug 1 Jul 2009 15:10 GMT
... for a drug that could halve the treatment period for , ... Republic of Congo, said the WHO. , river blindness is caused by a whose larvae are ...

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Medicinal chemist honored nationally 28 Jun 2009 07:50 GMT
... Ralph F. Hirschmann, 87, a groundbreaking medicinal chemist formerly of ... enlarged prostates; and Ivomec, used to combat river blindness. In 1969 Dr. Hirschmann and his Merck ...
Letter: Emergency request to join Obama's team to Ghana 27 Jun 2009 04:10 GMT
... Feature Article of Saturday, 27 June 2009 Letter: Emergency ... poverty in Africa; combating AIDS, Malaria, Polio, River Blindness and Tuberculosis, etc. It is the intention ...