Most malaria deaths worldwide are in children under 5 years old and pregnant women. While there has been a large amount of social science research on children and malaria, malaria in pregnancy has received little attention from social scientists, say researchers in a policy paper in PLoS Medicine.
Building on existing knowledge from social science research on malaria, Professor Umberto D'Alessandro (Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium) and colleagues propose two models for studying the social science aspects of malaria in pregnancy. One model considers social factors in malaria prevention, and the other in malaria treatment.
Citation: Ribera JM, Hausmann-Muela S, D'Alessandro U, Grietens KP (2007) Malaria in pregnancy: What can the social sciences contribute? PLoS Med 4(4): e92.
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- Caption: The Malaria in Pregnancy Treatment Model
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- Caption: The Malaria in Pregnancy Prevention Model
CONTACT:
Umberto D'Alessandro
Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine
Parasitology
Nationalestraat 155
Antwerp, B-2000
Belgium
+32 3 247 63 54
+32 3 247 63 59 (fax)
udalessandro@itg.be
Signature-based small molecule screening identifies cytosine arabinoside as an EWS/FLI modulator in Ewing sarcoma
Todd Golub and colleagues show that a gene expression-based screen of small-molecule libraries can identify candidate drugs that modulate cancer-associated oncoproteins.
Citation: Stegmaier K, Wong JS, Ross KN, Chow KT, Peck D, et al. (2007) Signature-based small molecule screening identifies cytosine arabinoside as an EWS/FLI modulator in Ewing sarcoma. PLoS Med 4(4): e122.
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CONTACT:
Todd Golub
Dana-Farber Caner Institute
Pediatric Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - Dana 15
44 Binney Street
Boston, MA 02115
United States of America
+1 617-252-1927
+1 617-582-8540 (fax)
golub@broad.mit.edu
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PLoS Medicine