Malaria

Malaria mosquitoes drawn to smelly socks, scientists say

2013-05-15 15:00:00

Mosquitoes infected with the malaria parasite are significantly more attracted to human odors -- in this case smelly socks -- than are uninfected mosquitoes, researchers reported Wednesday. Scientists collected human odor on nylon socks -- by having...

Climate change causes prostitution? Rep. Barbara Lee explains

2013-04-30 15:17:00

Climate change is causing glaciers to melt, heat waves to become more intense, species to become extinct and low-lying island nations like Tuvalu to disappear altogether. To this list of calamities, U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee has added another: Climate...

FDA's counterfeit detection device takes global aim at malaria

2013-04-24 15:48:00

A device that reveals counterfeit drugs in the hands of Food & Drug Administration agents is set to become the newest weapon in the worldwide effort to eradicate malaria, and may soon be used to detect useless look-alikes of drugs that combat cancer,...

The ex-presidents club

2013-04-25 00:00:00

As former President George W. Bush, joined by President Obama and three living former presidents, dedicates his library this week in Dallas, it's important to remember that presidential libraries are relatively new. In 1941, while he was still in office,...

Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Life With La Toya' on OWN

2013-04-19 17:08:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 21 -27, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SERIES Smash It's opening night in this new...

Review: 'Mary and Martha' can't connect

2013-04-20 08:00:00

Richard Curtis is indisputably one of the good ones. A British screenwriter who helped give the world the comic genius of "Black Adder" and delivered a string of smart rom-com hits including "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Bridget Jones's Diary" and...

TV This Week: April 14 - 20: 'Veep' on HBO

2013-04-12 14:39:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 14 -20, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SUNDAY "Parts unknown" can refer to exotic...

Edwin Ramsey dies at 95; WWII Army cavalry officer in Philippines

2013-03-16 19:55:00

Historians have said that losing the Philippines in the early stages of World War II was a defining event in the career of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. The same could be said of Edwin Ramsey. But Ramsey couldn't admit defeat. After MacArthur's retreat in...

Natalie Gulbis on the health hazards of traveling the world

2013-04-03 13:29:00

RANCHO MIRAGE -- Natalie Gulbis, the LPGA golfer who once dated Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, says she feels ready to play Thursday when the season's first women's golf major, the Kraft Nabisco Championship at Mission Hills Country...

Google's Doodle for Maria Sibylla Merian: What makes her special?

2013-04-02 13:16:00

Google on Tuesday is noting the 366th anniversary of Maria Sibylla Merian's birth with the gift of the Google Doodle. So what makes Merian special? Her work was a marriage of art and science in a time of few female scientists and little documentation of...

Libya's south teeters toward chaos — and militant extremists

2013-03-30 16:57:00

SABHA, Libya — Their fatigues don't match and their pickup has no windshield. Their antiaircraft gun, clogged with grit, is perched between a refugee camp and ripped market tents scattered over an ancient caravan route. But the tribesmen keep...

Albrecht Dürer: Drawn to art at an early age

2013-03-31 07:00:00

WASHINGTON — It is rare for a museum to lend the heart of its most prized collection to another museum, but the Albertina in Vienna has done just that by shipping almost a hundred watercolors and drawings by Albrecht D�rer to the National Gallery of...

Malaria-infected mosquitoes are more drawn to human odor than uninfected ones, scientists say.

2013-05-15 11:54:08

Society gives comedian, actor and author Lewis Black so much to whine about. Black's "The Rant Is Due" tour will cover topics like smartphones that are not really phones because ATT is a carrier and not a phone company, much as the mosquito is a carrier of malaria, and more truthful tirades.

2013-02-27 00:00:00

7 p.m. Saturday, HBO Hilary Swank and Brenda Blethyn play two mothers who launch a fight for malaria prevention after tragic events in Africa set them on a journey of self-discovery.

2012-08-11 00:00:00