Thu periodicity of the fever in infections with \ \ Filaria bancrofti in this country is not strictly periodic or regular. The parturition cycles of different adult female worms may fail to be simultaneous, whilst some parturition cycles may fail to produce fever or other symptoms. Every attack does not always mean fever, nor is every filarial attack of fever followed by lymphatic manifestation...

We need more clinical trials in the world's poorest regions to evaluate new drugs and vaccines, and also to find better ways to manage health issues. Clinical trials are expensive, time consuming, and cumbersome. However, in wealthier regions these limiting factors are being addressed to make trials less administrative and improve the designs. A good example is adaptive trial design. This innov...

1 SAME Modelling and Economics, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 2 Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, 3 Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 4 Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of Am...

David R. Hill, Charles D. Ericsson, Richard D. Pearson, Jay S. Keystone, David O. Freedman, Phyllis E. Kozarsky, Herbert L. DuPont, Frank J. Bia, Philip R. Fischer, and Edward T. Ryan National Travel Health Network and Centre and Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, and Cen...

1 Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine, Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Chancellor’s Building, United Kingdom, 2 Department of Disease Control, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom, 3 H2O Venture Pa...

Jun Tayama, Ph.D. Center for Health and Community Medicine Nagasaki University Nagasaki, Japan Tatsuki Ichikawa, M.D. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Nagasaki University Hospital Nagasaki, Japan Katsuyuki Eguchi Institute of Tropical Medicine Nagasaki University Nagasaki, Japan Taro Yamamoto Institute of Tropical Medicine Nagasaki University Nagasaki, Japan Susumu Shirabe Center f...

More than a decade ago, at a time when current and emerging tropical diseases posed growing threats to the United States, expert panels convened by the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences concluded that medical expertise within the United States competent to address diseases of the tropics had declined. Recognizing a national need to encourage and enhance such, The Am...

a* curricula of studies. Post-graduate training vhouse surgeoncy) extending for a minimum period of 0ne year should be enforced for all new medical graduates before starting any line of work even deluding preparation for higher courses. Without this, graduation should not be regarded as completed. And as the majority of the medical students in the land come to the end of their financial resourc...

Recent years have seen a rapid growth of interest in the history of tropical medicine, sparked by a number of academic and political developments. Imperialism is back on the scholarly agenda, leading us to ask how important empire was to science and medicine, and vice versa. Post-colonial studies raise questions about how the colonies were critical to the constitution or genealogy of science an...

1 University of Queensland, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, School of Population Health, Herston, Queensland, Australia, 2 Centro de Investigação em Saúde em Angola, Caxito, Rua Direita do Caxito, Hospital Provincial do Bengo, Caxito, Angola, 3 Disease Control Strategy Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 4 Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases...