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...Whatever the tactics, everybody can agree on one thing: time is running out. Modeling by the Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit published in the Malaria Journal in February predicts that if nothing is done in the next two decades, "resistance to artemisinins will be approaching 100%." And if that happens, it won't be long until the resistant strain spreads from Cambodia's precious gem mines to Africa, putting half the world's population at risk of catching what would be an untreatable, deadly disease...
...prevent malaria-infected red blood cells from sticking together in a process called sequestration. When this occurs in the brain it can cause cerebral malaria, one of the most deadly forms of the disease. "It's just like Bangkok traffic in the mornings," says professor Nick White of Mahidol University in Bangkok, who led the study. "[Artesunate] reduces the traffic jam, which is what kills people." The study's results still need to be replicated in African children, by far the worst victims of the disease; it's possible they will react differently than the subjects in the Wellcome Trust...
...former construction worker convicted of the beating deaths of 14 women; in Beijing. Hua reportedly targeted prostitutes, luring them to the city's outskirts before carrying out the murders and burying the bodies at construction sites. ANNOUNCED. The marriage of Thailand's CROWN PRINCE MAHA VAJIRALONGKORN, 49, to SRIRASMI MAHIDOL NA AYUDHYA, 30; in Bangkok. On the advice of spiritual counselors, the couple were married secretly last year in an informal ceremony while wearing tracksuits and slippers. MARRIED. CROWN PRINCE WILLEM-ALEXANDER, 34, the Netherlands' Prince of Orange, to MAXIMA ZORREGUIETA, 30; in Amsterdam. Despite an initial outcry when...
Mason plans to spend next year researching tropical medicine in Thailand. He will be based at Mahidol University in Bangkok, and will do fieldwork on drug-resistant strains of malaria in the Ratchaburi province...
Thursday afternoon the princess opened anexhibition at Harvard Medical School whichpresents the history of Mahidol's life and hiscontributions to Thai medicine, Cheungsatiansupsaid...