International travel and health : situation as on 1 January 2009.

Table of Contents: “…Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; CHAPTER 1: Health risks and precautions: general considerations; CHAPTER 2: Mode of travel: health considerations; CHAPTER 3: Environmental health risks; CHAPTER 4: Injuries and violence; CHAPTER 5: Infectious diseases of potential risk for travellers; CHAPTER 6: Vaccine-preventable diseases and vaccines; CHAPTER 7: Malaria; CHAPTER 8: Exposure to blood or other body fluids; CHAPTER 9: Special groups of travellers; CHAPTER 10: Psychological Health; Country list: Yellow fever vaccination requirements and recommendations.…”
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Antiprotozoal drug discovery : a challenge that remains

Table of Contents: “…Protozoal Diseases: Importance and Prophylaxis -- Drugs for Parasitic Diseases -- Strategies to Solve a Global Problem -- Crude Extracts and Isolated Compounds with Trypanocidal Activity -- Malaria, Generalities and New Treatments -- Update on Advances in Plant-based Antimalarial Drug Discovery -- Metals as an Option for Protozoa Treatment.…”
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GI jive : an army bandsman in World War II by Mathias, Frank Furlong

Table of Contents: “…The sax section -- ASTPeewee -- Mail call -- Sharps and flats -- Halfway around the world -- The lizard's tail -- The buckeye division -- A thousand ships -- Down the central plains -- The Battle of Manila -- After the battle -- Baguio and Balete Pass -- Cagayan Valley Blitzkrieg -- Atomic malaria -- Sentimental journey.…”
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Mobilizing science-based enterprises for energy, water, and medicines in Nigeria

Table of Contents: “…Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 3 The Case Studies -- 4 Meeting Needs -- 5 Recommendations -- Appendixes: Workshop Reports -- Appendix A: Solar Photovoltaics: Hypothetical Case Study -- Appendix B: Water Purification: Hypothetical Case Study -- Appendix C: Artemisinin-Based Malaria Therapy: Hypothetical Case Study…”
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International Travel and Health 2008 : Situation as on 1 January 2008. by Organization, World Health

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Infection history

Table of Contents: “…Epidemics: AIDS & Bubonic Plague (4:48) -- Epidemics: Yellow Fever & Malaria (5:30) -- Infectious Disease: Syphilis (2:38) -- Discrimination During Epidemics (3:38) -- HIV and Treatment Economics (4:09) -- Pasteur's Breakthrough Discovery (3:08) -- Cholera and Public Health (2:01) -- Smallpox and Vaccination (3:29) -- Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance (4:55) -- Tuberculosis (4:50) -- Infectious Disease: Influenza (2:47) -- New Pathogens & Diseases (3:47) -- Global Microbes (1:57)…”
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Inheriting the world : the atlas of children's health and the environment by Gordon, Bruce (Bruce Allan)

Table of Contents: “…Foreword; The World's Forgotten Children; Two Worlds: Rich and Poor; Traditional Hazards, New Risks; Water for All; Hurry Up in the Toilet; To Fetch a Pail of Water; Malaria; Fluoride and Arsenic in Drinking Water; Indoor Smoke; Passive Smoking; Polluted Cities; Child Injuries are Preventable.…”
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The Nei Jing. v. 2, the second part of two presentations on the Su Wen by Yuen, Jeffrey C.

Colonial pathologies : American tropical medicine, race, and hygiene in the Philippines by Anderson, Warwick, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Late-Colonial Public Health and Filipino "Mimicry" -- 8. Malaria Between Race and Ecology.…”
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Health and poverty : global health problems and solutions by Walraven, Gijsbertus Engelinus Laurentius, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The poor have no face, no voice -- Lamin : roll back malaria -- Pendo : safe motherhood -- Kaddy : family planning -- Maimuna : cervical cancer -- Ramesh : TB and HIV -- Neelum and SIFAT water and sanitation -- Ousman : neglected tropical diseases -- Hassan : undernutrition -- Mariama : new diseases of poverty -- Helena : health financing -- Sanam : cross-border health care -- Revisiting Alma Ata.…”
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Guías para la atención prehospitalaria de los traumatismos.

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Recent advances in the synthesis of organic compounds to combat neglected tropical diseases

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Health Economics in Development.

Table of Contents: “…-- Cost-benefit analysis of a regional vaccination system. -- Cost-effective malaria control in Brazil. -- Do the poor in Brazil pay more for food? …”
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The Forgotten Diseases. Part 10 Kill or Cure, Series 3

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The Lomborg deception : setting the record straight about global warming by Friel, Howard, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…2001: a theorem's odyssey -- On polar bears -- On Lomborg's endnotes -- Global warming is "no catastrophe" -- On melting glaciers and rising sea levels -- On Greenland and the missing figures -- The penguins sidebar -- On Antarctica and the Larsen-B ice shelf -- On hurricanes and extreme weather events -- Malaria in Vermont -- On malnutrition -- On water shortages -- Lomborg's triple-A rating -- How wrong was Lomborg?…”
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Statistical handbook on infectious diseases by Watstein, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…. -- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). -- Malaria. -- Sexually transmitted diseases. -- Tuberculosis. -- Foodborne diseases. -- Waterborne diseases. -- Infectious disease worldwide: present issues, emerging concerns. -- Vaccine-preventable diseases. -- Infectious disease elimination and eradication. -- Bioterrorism and biological warfare. -- Appendix: World Health Organization (WHO) regions.…”
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Textbook of international health by Basch, Paul F. (Paul Frederick), 1933-2001

Table of Contents: “…HIstorical background -- What we want to know -- The context of illness -- The environmental and biological setting -- Infant and maternal mortality -- Development and health -- Primary health care -- Economic aspects -- Policy and planning -- Comparing national health care systems -- Organizations working internationally -- Three diseases : smallpox, malaria, and AIDS -- The role of science and technology -- The international health profession.…”
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Enfermedades transmisibles, género y equidad en la salud. by Hartigan, Pamela

Table of Contents: “…CONTENIDO; Introducción; Descripciones; Una mirada hacia el pasado y hacia el presente; El género un concepto comparativo; El impacto de género en las enfermedades transmisibles; Tuberculosis; Enfermedades de transmisión sexual; Malaria; Grupo de enfermedades tropicales huérfanas; Enfermedades transmisibles género y equidad en la salud.…”
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Tropical Medicine : a Clinical Text. by Cahill, Kevin M.

Table of Contents: “…""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Malaria""; ""The Trypanosomatidae""; ""Amebiasis""; ""Bacterial and Rickettsial Diseases""; ""Tuberculosis""; ""Rabies""; ""Leprosy""; ""Treponemal and Fungal Infections""; ""Diarrheal Diseases""; ""Viral Infections of the Tropics""; ""Intestinal Nematode Infections""; ""Intestinal Cestode Infections""; ""Intestinal Trematode Infections""; ""Larval Helminth Infections""; ""Filariasis""; ""Schistosomiasis""; ""Malnutrition""; ""Hereditary Anemias""; ""Miscellaneous""; ""Advising Tropical Travelers""; ""Epilogue""; ""References""; ""Index""…”
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Missions for science : U.S. technology and medicine in America's African world by McBride, David, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Machines and plantations : birth of the black belt -- Industry on the Isthmus : the Panama Canal Zone -- Curing the Caribbean : Haiti through the occupation -- Out of the shadows : Liberia before World War II -- Encountering the science superpower. Malaria and modernization : the decline of the black belt -- Alliances and utopias : Liberia's search for development -- Technology of reaction : Haiti and the new dispersal -- Conclusion: Science and Hope.…”
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Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War by Farley, John, 1936-

Table of Contents: “…-- Interim Commission, 1946-48: The long wait -- First World Health assemblies: into the Cold War -- Money matters -- Politics matter --Social medicine and its decline -- Tuberculosis: the vaccine controversy -- Penicillin bullet: syphilis and yaws -- Malaria and famine -- Nearly torn apart: the WHO and the Catholic Church -- Only one term -- Retirement.…”
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Bites of Insanity. by Mala, Nsah

Table of Contents: “…. -- Dry Season -- Environmental Foes -- Innocent Ozone -- Shrubs' Emergency -- Filtered Rays -- Leaves On Leave -- When the poet fires ink and papers against mosquitoes and disease sources... -- Blood Banks -- Malaria Exported Him -- Malaria And Fish -- When Mosquitoes Sing -- Bites of Insanity -- Back cover.…”
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Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 6) : Major Infectious Diseases. by Holmes, King K.

Table of Contents: “…Tuberculosis -- PART 3 OTHER MAJOR INFECTIONS -- 12. Malaria Elimination and Eradication -- 13. Malaria Control -- 14. …”
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The health workforce in Ethiopia : addressing the remaining challenges

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The power of plagues by Sherman, Irwin W.

Table of Contents: “…The nature of plagues -- Plagues, the price of being sedentary -- Six plagues of antiquity -- An ancient plague, the black death -- A modern plague, AIDS -- Typhus, a fever plague -- Malaria, another fever plague -- King cholera -- Smallpox, the spotted plague -- Preventing plagues -- The plague protectors -- The great pox syphilis -- The people's plague: tuberculosis -- Leprosy, the striking hand of God -- Six plagues of Africa -- Plagues without germs -- Plagues on order.…”
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Librarianship as a bridge to an information and knowledge society in Africa

Table of Contents: “…Frontmatter; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Authors' Contact Details; HARNESSING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FOR AFRICA'S TRANSITION TO THE 21ST CENTURY; POLITICS OF INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE IN AFRICA: THE STRUGGLE FOR AN INFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY IN A GLOBALISED WORLD; LIBRARIES AND DEMOCRACY; MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE: A CASE FOR THE SCECSAL REGION; A DIGITAL LIBRARY IN A RURAL MALARIA RESEARCH CENTRE IN AFRICA: THE KENYAN EXPERIENCE.…”
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Health news and interviews diseases and disorders video clips

Table of Contents: “…Marburg Virus Treatment (1:25) -- HIV/AIDS: Genetic Mutation Keeps Some People Alive (1:29) -- Virus: Cell-Killing Machine (1:39) -- How Diseases Travel/Flu-Blocker Spray (3:07) -- Flu Shot/Killer Flu (3:26) -- Jail Cells/Bird Flu Clues (3:15) -- Recreation of Killer Flu (1:52) -- Computer Chip Detects Infections/Communication with Immune Cells (3:20) -- Malaria Milestone (1:47) -- How the West Nile Virus Spreads/West Nile Vaccine (3:04) -- Allergies and Genes (1:29) -- Food Allergy Vaccines/Hope for Food Allergy Victims (3:32) -- Lost Nerve Power/Alzheimer's Gene (3:28) -- Gene Therapy for Alzheimer's/Alzheimer's Identification (3:26) -- Alzheimer's Smell Test (1:51) -- Shrinking Brains: Alzheimer's Predictor (1:47) -- Alzheimer's Prevention: Curcumin Spice and Apples (3:15) -- Brain Pills for Alzheimer's Disease (1:55) -- Wine Therapy for Alzheimer's Prevention (1:41) -- Alzheimer's Scans: Help in Early Diagnosis and Medication Selection (3:03) -- Clear Breathing for Asthma Patients (3:24) -- Autism Gene/Vaccines and Autism (5:05) -- Coronary Predictor/Pre-Term Babies (3:38) -- Stroke Brain Re-Growth/Stroke Brain Fix (3:04) -- Stem Cells and Tissue Repair/Gum Disease and Heart Disease (3:31) -- Ethnic Drug for Heart Failure (2:30) -- Aneurysm: Silent Killer (1:31) -- Cystic Fibrosis Mucus (1:49) -- Diabetes Nerve Drug (1:50) -- Genetic Science and Huntington's Disease (3:46) -- Blindness Gene/Adult Macular Degeneration (1:35) -- Muscular Dystrophy Gene Therapy (1:38) -- Parkinson's Disease: Cause and Treatment (3:35) -- Treatment for Spinal Cord Injuries (3:13) -- Spinal Nerve Re-Growth (3:13)…”
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Tropical Medicine : an Illustrated History of The Pioneers. by Cook, G. C. (Gordon Charles)

Table of Contents: “…Front cover; Tropical Medicine: An Illustrated History of the Pioneers; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Prologue; Chapter 1 Early pioneers of 'medicine in the tropics'; Chapter 2 Origins of the formal discipline: background factors; Chapter 3 Patrick Manson (1844-1922): father of the newly-formed speciality, filariasis research, and founder of the London School of Tropical Medicine; Chapter 4 Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922): discovery of the causative agent of malaria in 1880.…”
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Enhancing the effectiveness of sustainability partnerships : summary of a workshop

Table of Contents: “…Andonova -- Assessing the role and relevance of the Renewable Energy Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) in global sustainability governance / Philipp Pattberg [and others] -- Clean water and sanitation for all: global water challenge / Derek Vollmer, Kathleen McAllister, and Jacqueline Coté -- Agua para todos: water for all / Cortnie Shupe and Julia Steets -- The Sustainable Forest Products Global Alliance / William Sugrue -- The Common Code for the Coffee Community (4C) / Petra Kuenkel, Vera Fricke, and Stanislava Cholakova -- Sustainable Silicon Valley: a model regional partnership / Blas Pérez Henríquez -- The ACS Green Chemistry Institute®: a case study of partnerships to promote sustainability in the chemical enterprise / Kira JM Matus -- The multilateral initiative on malaria: an alliance to enhance African malaria research / Barbara Sina -- Public-private partnerships and pro-poor livestock research: the search for an East Coast fever vaccine / David J. …”
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Contraceptive Use and Controlled Fertility : Health Issues for Women and Children. by Staff, National Research Council

Table of Contents: “…""Lack of Antenatal Care""""Distance""; ""Socioeconomic Status""; ""Traditional Behavior""; ""Birth Practices""; ""Female Circumcision""; ""CAUSAL PATTERNS OF MORTALITY""; ""Differences by Area""; ""ASPECTS OF FERTILITY AND THE MAJOR CAUSES OF DEATH""; ""Abortion""; ""Difficult Labor""; ""Hemorrhage/Anemia""; ""Hypertensive Disease of Pregnancy""; ""Infectious Disease""; ""Hepatitis""; ""Tuberculosis""; ""Malaria""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""APPENDIXâ€?CONTENTS OF CAUSAL CATEGORIES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Health Effects of Contraception""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES""…”
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Environmental Changes & Human Health 2012 : zoonotic and vector-borne diseases, 23rd March 2012 symposium's proceedings, Monaco.

Table of Contents: “…Environmental Changes & Human Health 2012 -- Zoonotic and Vector-borne Diseases; Contents; An historical perspective on environmental change and vector-borne disease; Modelling emergence of vector-borne diseases in Europe; Climate-driven infectious diseases in a changing human landscape: two case studies on cholera and malaria; Environmental changes and the emergence of zoonotic infections in humans; Human migrations and adaptation to the environment: a genetic view; Vector-borne diseases and international transport.…”
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Comparative genomics and proteomics in drug discovery

Table of Contents: “…Comparative genomics and drug discovery in trypanosomatids -- The practical implications of comparative kinetoplastid genomics -- The relevance of host genes in malaria -- Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors as drug/chemical targets, contributions from comparative genomics, forward and reverse genetics -- Discovery of novel sodium channel inhibitors : a gene family-based approach -- 'Omics' in translational medicine : are they lost in translation? …”
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Susceptibility to infectious diseases : the importance of host genetics

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 Application of genetic epidemiology to dissecting host susceptibility/resistance to infection illustrated with the study of common mycobacterial infections; CHAPTER 3 The diverse genetic basis of immunodeficiencies; CHAPTER 4 Genetic diversity in the major histocompatibility complex and the immune response to infectious diseases; CHAPTER 5 The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator; CHAPTER 6 The influence of inherited traits on malaria infection.…”
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Millennium Development Goals : achievements and prospects of meeting the targets in Africa

Table of Contents: “…; ""4 REDUCTION OF CHILD MORTALITY""; ""5 IMPROVING MATERNAL HEALTH""; ""6 COMBATING HIV/AIDS, TB AND MALARIA""; ""7 ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES""; ""8 PROGRESS BY AFRICAN REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMMUNITIES""; ""Conclusion""; ""Back Cover""…”
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Human parasitology by Bogitsh, Burton J. (Burton Jerome)

Table of Contents: “…Symbiosis and parasitism -- Parasite-host interactions -- General characteristics of the protozoa -- Visceral protozoa 1: amoebae and ciliates -- Visceral protozoa 2: flagellates -- Blood and tissue protozoa 1: hemoflagellates -- Blood and tissue protozoa 2: human malaria -- Blood and tissue protozoa 3: other apicomplexans -- General characteristics of the trematoda -- Visceral flukes -- Blood flukes -- General characteristics of the cestoidea -- Intestinal tapeworms -- Extraintestinal tapeworms -- General characteristics of the nematoda -- Intestinal nematodes -- Blood and tissue nematodes -- Arthropods as vectors.…”
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The power of plagues by Sherman, Irwin W.

Table of Contents: “…The nature of plagues -- Plagues, the price of being sedentary -- Six plagues of antiquity -- An ancient plague, the black death -- A 21st century plague, AIDS -- Typhus, a fever plague -- Malaria, another fever plague -- King cholera -- Smallpox, the spotted plague -- Preventing plagues: immunization -- The plague protectors: antisepsis to antibiotics -- The great pox syphilis -- The people's plague: tuberculosis -- Leprosy, the striking hand of God -- Six plagues of Africa -- Emerging and re-emerging plagues.…”
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A Medical History of Hong Kong : 1842-1941 by Chan-Yeung, Moira

Table of Contents: “…The reluctant birth of medical services in Hong Kong -- Diseases of Venus : prostitution and its control -- The Chinese Hospital (Tung Wah) : its rise, decline, and rebirth -- Western medicine : a hard sell in Hong Kong -- The inconvenient truths : sanitation in Hong Kong -- The "great dying" : bubonic plague -- Plague : a breeding ground for improvements in public health -- Women's medicine : maternal and infant health -- The three great killers : malaria, smallpox, and beriberi -- A century of development and achievement.…”
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Reemergence of established pathogens in the 21st century

Table of Contents: “…The Changing Spectrum of Bacterial Infections -- Severe Invasive Group a Streptococcal Infections -- Bartonella Infections Resurgence in the New Century -- Resistant Bacteria and Resurgence -- Antibiotic-ressistant Streptococcus pneumoniae: Implications for Management in the 21st Century -- MRSA in the 21st Century: Emerging Challenges -- Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci -- Multi-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Hospital Practice -- Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis (MDRTB) -- Controlling Antibiotic Resistance: Strategies Based on the Mutant Selection Window -- Resistant Parasitic Infections -- Drug-resistant Malaria.…”
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Parasitology. by Chernin, Jack

Table of Contents: “…Preliminaries; CONTENTS; S e r i e s e d i t o r ' s preface; 1 Introduction to Parasitology; 2 Protozoa; 3 Platyhelminths; 4 Parasite Examples Grouped According to Life-cycle; 5 Introduction to Host Response; 6 Nutrition and Biochemistry of Parasites; 7 Pathological Effect of the Parasite upon the Host; 8 Epidemiology; 9 Vaccines; 10 Aspects of Malaria; Supplementary reading; S p e c i f i c references; Index.…”
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Biologic. Series 1, Episode 24

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