Heigh ho, heigh ho, it's off to kill Anopheles we go
Category: Historical studies of disease
Dopey: mosquito slayer?
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Discussing causes, origins, evolution, and implications of disease and other phenomena.
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Tara C. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Her research involves a number of pathogens at the animal-human nexus. She also writes for The Panda's Thumb and previously for WIRED SCIENCE's Correlations. Please note the views expressed on this site are Dr. Smith's alone and may not be representative of the groups mentioned above.
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Infectious Disease Series
Malaria:
"The Fever" by Sonia Shah
Category: Book & movie reviews
"The Fever" explores one of mankind's oldest foes, malaria--tracing it through history to the present day.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:00 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Psychological Disorders Associated with Cerebral Malaria
Category: General biology
Student guest post by Laura Vonnahme As a part of traveling to a developing nation, we are often required to take medical precautions. This generally includes a line-up of shots for various diseases, a few other tests, and various regimens...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 3:00 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Obama: end malaria deaths by 2015
Category: Malaria
Malaria kills a child every thirty seconds; what do the candidates plan to do about it?
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 1:35 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Less is more when it comes to antibiotic use?
Category: General biology
Could we find a way to successfully treat infections using lower doses of drugs for a shorter period of time, without increasing the presence of antibiotic resistant organisms? Maybe...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 4:00 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Twelve Diseases that Changed Our World"
Category: Historical studies of disease
Learning from history to avoid repeating it. Ideally.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:30 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Tuesday reads
Category: Blog carnivals
Grand Rounds of the week, malaria, cancer & chromosomes, and a bit more on communication between scientists and journalists.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Malaria: the cure for AIDS?
Category: AIDS/HIV
Safe and effective cure, or potentially deadly quackery?
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:30 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Behe pwned again
Category: Malaria
Behe's "The Edge of Evolution" is officially on the shelves now, and already it's DOA.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 7:00 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New malaria vaccine shows promise
Category: General Epidemiology
[From the archives; originally published November 18, 2005] Malaria is one of the world's leading infectious killers. World-wide, almost 40% of the world's population is at risk of acquiring this disease--many of them in poor countries with limited resources to...
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