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Friday, 27 November 2020

New study on the risk of Plasmodium vivax parasitaemia after Plasmodium falciparum malaria

A new study quantifying the high risk of Plasmodium vivax parasitaemia after treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria and exploring the factors associated with this has been published in PLOS Medicine.
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Tuesday, 24 November 2020

Largest clinical trial in Africa to treat COVID-19 cases before they become severe is launched in 13 countries

NAIROBI/KINSHASA/GENEVA – Thirteen African countries and an international network of research institutions have joined forces to launch the largest COVID-19 clinical trial in mild-to-moderate outpatients in Africa. The ANTICOV clinical trial aims to respond to the urgent need to identify treatments ...
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Friday, 20 November 2020

British Pharmacological Society honours Joel Tarning

Professor Joel Tarning has been awarded the biennial Grahame-Smith Prize by the British Pharmacological Society for outstanding contributions to clinical pharmacology.
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Friday, 6 November 2020

IDDO at ASTMH 2020

This year’s ASTMH from 15-19 November 2020 is going virtual. WWARN, as part of IDDO, is presenting in three sessions. Find out more below.
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Monday, 26 October 2020

IDDO and ISARIC partner to support data collection and analysis for COVID-19

In January 2020, ISARIC (the International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infections Consortium) launched an international initiative for standardised COVID-19 clinical data collection. Over the past nine months, there has been extensive global participation, resulting in one of the world’s l...
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Monday, 19 October 2020

New Clinical Data Report from ISARIC

The International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infections Consortium (ISARIC) is producing a weekly report using clinical data from its COVID-19 database. To date, this includes data from 122,361 individuals from 578 sites across 42 countries.
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Monday, 21 September 2020

BMC publishes series of IDDO papers about the causes of non-malarial febrile illnesses globally

A series of articles that set out to explore the global distribution of infections that cause non-malarial febrile illness (NMFI) has today been published in BMC Medicine.The series brings together the results of large-scale systematic reviews of the causes of fever in Africa, Latin America, and Sou...
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Monday, 14 September 2020

Professor Paul Newton wins the Helen Clark-JoPPP Award

We are delighted to announce that Professor Paul Newton has won the Helen-Clark-JoPPP Award for Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice Research. Professor Newton has been presented with the award based on the scientific merit of his work, as well as its impact on patients, decisions makers, and on g...
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Thursday, 10 September 2020

Microscopy standards to harmonise methods for malaria clinical research studies

Research Malaria Microscopy Standards (ReMMS) applicable to malaria clinical research studies have been published in Malaria Journal. The paper describes the rationale for proposed standards to prepare, stain and examine blood films for malaria parasites.
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Thursday, 13 August 2020

New six-month report flags growing number of medical product quality concerns relating to COVID-19

The Medicine Quality Research Group has published a six-month Medical Product Quality Report focused on COVID-19 today, using its Medicine Quality Monitoring Globe tool. New reports will be issued monthly from now on, following the first January - June publication.
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Monday, 10 August 2020

New resources available for COVID-19

New resources are available now on IDDO’s website for COVID-19 researchers. The resources will guide researchers in the collection of ECG data, and the collection, processing and transport of blood pharmacokinetic samples and data.
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Tuesday, 21 July 2020

New online tool to fill information gaps in substandard and falsified medicines

A major challenge in preventing, detecting and responding to substandard and falsified (SF) medical products is the lack of accessible and reliable information on how widespread the problem is and where. SF medical products, which includes medicines, vaccines, diagnostic tests and devices, pose an i...
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Wednesday, 15 July 2020

COVID-19 Data Platform Data Access Committee - call for nominations

Nominations for members of the COVID-19 Data Platform Data Access Committee are now open. Please consider nominating individuals to contribute expertise to this pioneering collaboration in COVID-19 and emerging infections research to covid19@iddo.org by 31 July 2020.
Professor Marleen Boelaert
Wednesday, 17 June 2020

Tribute to Professor Marleen Boelaert

It is with great sadness that IDDO has learnt of the passing of Professor Marleen Boelaert, a valued member of the IDDO team since 2017. Professor Boelaert’s research concentrated on the control of tropical infectious diseases, mainly leishmaniasis and sleeping sickness.
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Monday, 8 June 2020

New library to support global malaria research

A first of its kind collaborative open access library to support the global malaria research effort is now available.
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Wednesday, 3 June 2020

More time to comment on draft Research Agenda

IDDO has extended the feedback period on its draft Research Agenda on schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases (STHs) until July 17. Comments are welcome from the wider research community to help form the direction of research work using IDDO’s schistosomiasis and STHs data platform.
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Tuesday, 26 May 2020

Features of 20,133 UK patients in hospital with COVID-19 using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol: prospective observational cohort study

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Friday, 22 May 2020

New global collaboration developing standards for standardised data collection across the VL research community

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar, is transmitted to humans through the bites from infected female phlebotomine sand flies. If left untreated, it is fatal in 95% of cases. Globally, it is estimated there are up to 22,000 new cases of VL each year which occur in Brazil, Ethiopia, I...
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Wednesday, 29 April 2020

New evidence for optimising malaria treatment in pregnant women

The research, published today in The Lancet Infectious Diseases is the fruit of joint project between investigators from around the world to conduct the largest individual patient data meta-analysis to date under the WWARN umbrella. The study found that artemether-lumefantrine (AL) and other artemis...
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Monday, 27 April 2020

CDISC Interim User Guide released

IDDO is proud to be part of the CDISC task force who rapidly developed the newly released Interim User Guide to support the Covid-19 research community.

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