It has become an expert at ferreting out hard-to-reach patients with obscure and potentially fatal genetic diseases--namely lysosomal storage disorders, a group of 40 genetic diseases marked by a deficient enzyme.
One doctor group, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, calls for new incentives to lure big pharmaceutical companies back into the field.
"Mitochondrial myopathies are a group of complex and severe diseases, " she said.
Overseas visits: 9-11 September 2008, to Paris to attend the French Coalition Against Malaria Forum in my capacity as voluntary non-executive Chairman of the Malaria Consortium and Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases.
My travel, accommodation and associated costs were met by the Malaria Consortium. (Registered 8 October 2008) 14-25 September 2008, to Nigeria, Uganda and Southern Sudan to visit Malaria Consortium Projects in my capacity as voluntary non-executive Chairman of the Malaria Consortium and Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases.
My travel, accommodation and associated costs were met by the Malaria Consortium. (Registered 8 October 2008) 7-11 December 2008, to Senegal, at the invitation of the Global Fund against Aids, TB and Malaria, as Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, and voluntary Chairman of the Malaria Consortium (NGO), for the Global Fund Partnership Forum 2008.
His group is especially interested in promoting the technique for treating mitochondrial diseases -- these organelles posses a different set of DNA than that contained in the nucleus of cells, and are responsible for generating the energy needed for cells to function.
Outside the cluster of cinder block structures that make up Kano's Infectious Diseases Hospital, hundreds of sick children are lined up, awaiting treatment from Doctors Without Borders, the nonprofit group, which has set up a tent on hospital grounds.
Cambridge Biostability, with support from Britain's Department for International Development and the Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health, an American not-for-profit group, is working on a sugar-glass version of a combined shot against five nasty childhood diseases, including diphtheria and meningitis.
As a group, PDPs like OneWorld Health, Medicines for Malaria Venture, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, and the Foundation for Innovative Diagnostics target diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, Chagas, HIV and AIDS, and soil-transmitted helminthiasis, a group of parasitic infections caused by worms.
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In order to screen for a number of genetic diseases that occur predominantly in Jews of Ashkenazi, or Eastern European, extraction, for example, there is a group of genetic tests called the Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Panel (AJGP).
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