/newsroom/taxonomy/term/4691/all en /newsroom/scott-bohle Mon, 01 Aug 2022 18:30:29 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 288280 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/products-derived-plants-offer-potential-dual-targeting-agents-experimental-cerebral-malaria-285211 <p>Malaria, a life-threatening disease usually caused when parasites from the Plasmodium family enter the bloodstream of a person bitten by a parasite-carrying mosquito, is a severe health threat globally, with 200 to 300 million cases annually and 445,000 deaths in 2016.</p> <p>With pregnant women and children most vulnerable from infection, complications including anemia and cerebral malaria, the most severe neurological complication from malaria, are responsible for approximately 25% of the infant mortality rate in some regions of Africa.</p> Tue, 20 Feb 2018 18:49:29 +0000 nathan.menezes@mail.mcgill.ca 32983 at /newsroom /newsroom/mary-m-stevenson Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 22928 at /newsroom /newsroom/martin-olivier Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23128 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/5m-malaria-tuberculosis-drug-discovery-research-257396 <p>University of Toronto and Æ»¹ûÒùÔº scientists are leading an international partnership to discover new and improved drug treatments for tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases  -- thanks to a contribution from Merck Canada Inc., as well as an additional $5 million supplement to a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The new funding brings the total investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to nearly US $12 million since 2012.</p> Thu, 17 Dec 2015 20:34:42 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25046 at /newsroom