A study has found that around one third of antimalarial drugs available in six African cities are below WHO standards.
... combination therapies (ACTs).
"MFT does not necessarily solve all our problems," said Boni. "Antimalarial drug development needs to continue with the hope of producing novel and highly effective ...
The use of an antimalarial medication may prevent the onset of diabetes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, new Geisinger research shows. Researchers examined the records of 2,093 Geisinger ...
In recent years, the use of a three-day course of an antimalarial treatment called ACT (artemisinin-based combination therapy) in over 40 countries that face endemic malaria has shown great success in ...
... treatments by providing alternative sources of artemisinin, stabilising the supply of effective antimalarial drugs such as ACTs and reducing the cost of artemisinin production.
The new technologies ...
... multiple drug-resistant strains of the disease are becoming commonplace. With the previously mainstay antimalarial drug chloroquine nearly ineffective due to drug resistance and traditional public ...
Chemists have developed a drug that not only protects against malaria, but reverses resistance to other antimalarial drugs
... emphasise the need for continued vigilance in the monitoring of malaria and the development of resistance to antimalarial drugs."
In addition, there were few studies focusing on the most at-risk ...
... Quality
Monitoring program set up by the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID)-supported Drug Quality and Information (DQI)
Program, implemented by the U.S. Pharmacopeial (USP) Convention. ...
A study looking at malaria parasites' response to artemisinin-based antimalarial drugs confirms growing resistance in western Cambodia.
... scales may be scarce and many treatments are given at home using antimalarials bought from shops and street vendors. In these settings, drug doses are calculated using a patient's age to estimate ...
... Dr. Silverman. "For the short term, however, we still will have no choice but to use these lifesaving antimalarial drugs. However we need to investigate which of the antimalarials can be used in the ...
... of four malaria parasites that routinely affect humans. P. vivax, which is increasingly resistant to some antimalarial drugs, is the species most common outside Africa, particularly in Asia and the ...
A sweeter version of an antimalarial drug that easily dissolves in water is just as effective as the conventional treatment, say researchers.
... effective treatment for malaria, given that the disease has become resistant to many of the older antimalarial drugs, and it has shown to be safe and effective in non-pregnant women. For pragmatic ...
