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This Drug for Rare Diseases Makes Human Blood Lethal to Mosquitoes
In a nutshell A rare disease drug may help fight malaria. Nitisinone, a medication approved for rare genetic conditions, ...
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Rare flea-borne disease could be resurging: CDC
CDC researchers warned clinicians March 27 about a potential resurgence of murine typhus, a rare flea-borne disease, according to MedPage Today.  Murine typhus, caused by the bacteria Rickettsia typhi ...
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Rare disease drug makes human blood toxic to malaria-causing mosquitoes
Nitisinone, a drug used to treat rare diseases, can kill malaria-causing mosquitoes, a new study found. In a bid to fight malaria, researchers are coming up with new solutions to reduce the spike ...
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Drug For Rare Disease Turns Human Blood Into Mosquito Poison
Scientists have a radical new plan for controlling mosquito numbers and fighting malaria: lacing human blood with a drug that ...
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Rare disease drug nitisinone makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes
Nitisinone was shown to last longer than ivermectin in the human bloodstream, and was able to kill not only mosquitoes of all ages -- including the older ones that are most likely to transmit malaria ...
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Soleno Therapeutics’ ‘life-changing’ rare-disease drug approved
The FDA Wednesday approved the first drug to treat people with Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare genetic disease that causes an ...
Rare drug makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes: Study | Morning in America
Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal to humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A new scientific ...
Dallas scientists granted $420K to test gene therapy for rare neurological disease
Childhood-onset striatonigral neurodegeneration robs children of the ability to walk and talk by age five. Researchers at ...
An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps
In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why? I n March 2009, ...
Drug treatment extended for Langford girl with rare fatal condition
The family of nine-year-old Charleigh Pollock will continue to be covered for the drug, which costs $1 million a year, until ...
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Promising drug cuts Alzheimer’s risk by half in rare cases
Research shows experimental anti-amyloid drug reduced cognitive symptom risk by 50% in people with rare genetic mutations ...
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New Study Provides Comprehensive Insights into Rare Triglyceride Disorder
Triglycerides are a vital source of energy, but when levels become dangerously high, they can lead to serious health ...