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Melbourne scientists have made the surprise discovery that malaria parasites can 'talk' to each other – a social behaviour to ensure the parasite's survival and improve its chances of being transmitted to other humans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-idle-chatter-malaria-parasites.html Medical research Wed, 15 May 2013 13:28:48 EST news287843320 Early diagnosis and treatment with antimalarial drugs (ACTs—artemisinin based combination treatments) has been linked to a reduction in malaria in the migrant population living on the Thai-Myanmar border, despite evidence of increasing resistance to ACTs in this location, according to a study by international researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-resistance-line-anti-malarial-drugs-thai-myanmar.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:00:08 EST news281712880 (Medical Xpress)—New research has revealed that immature malaria parasites are more resistant to treatment with key antimalarial drugs than older parasites, a finding that could lead to more effective treatments for a disease that kills one person every minute and is developing resistance to drugs at an alarming rate. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-young-malaria-parasites-medicine-emerging.html Medications Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:20:08 EST news280488733 Researchers have discovered how a new class of antimalarial drugs kills the malaria parasite, showing that the drugs block a pump at the parasite surface, causing it to fill with salt. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-drug-malaria.html Medical research Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:50:01 EST news280053482 A combination of anti-HIV drugs has been found to also reduce the risk of recurrent malaria by nearly half among HIV-positive children, according to researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-hiv-treatment-malaria-recurrence-children.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:00:10 EST news273344123 (Medical Xpress)—Despite nearly three decades of conflict, Sri Lanka has succeeded in reducing malaria cases by 99.9 percent since 1999 and is on track to eliminate the disease entirely by 2014. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-malaria-sri-lanka-decades-conflict.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:10:02 EST news265538929 A novel anti-inflammatory drug could help to improve survival in the most severe cases of malaria by preventing the immune system from causing irrevocable brain and tissue damage. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-anti-inflammatory-drugs-survival-severe-malaria.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 23 May 2012 14:00:01 EST news256995503 Poor-quality and fake antimalarial drugs are leading to drug resistance and inadequate treatment that is endangering global efforts made to control and eliminate malaria over the past 10 years, according to a review of the evidence published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. In particular, the emergence of resistance to artemisinin drugs, currently the most effective treatment against malaria, on the Thailand-Cambodia border should be a wake up call, warn the authors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-poor-quality-antimalarial-drugs-threaten-jeopardize.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 21 May 2012 18:30:01 EST news256816149 Evidence that the most deadly species of malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is becoming resistant to the front line treatment for malaria on the border of Thailand and Myanmar (Burma) is reported in The Lancet today. This increases concern that resistance could now spread to India and then Africa as resistance to other antimalarial drugs has done before. Eliminating malaria might then prove impossible. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-artemisinin-resistant-untreatable-malaria-rapidly-thailand-myanmar.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:00:01 EST news252845757 Malaria infections among infants can be cut by up to 30 per cent when antimalarial drugs are given intermittently over a 12 month period, a three-year clinical trial in Papua New Guinea has shown. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-combination-drug-treatment-malaria-percent.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:48:54 EST news252578826 In this week's PLoS Medicine, Michael Delves of Imperial College London, UK and colleagues compare the activity of 50 current and experimental antimalarials against liver, sexual blood, and mosquito stages of selected human and nonhuman parasite species, including Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium berghei, and Plasmodium yoelii. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-antimalarial-drugs-effects-plasmodium-lifecycle.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:34:31 EST news249068063 (Medical Xpress) -- The emergence of fake and poor quality anti-malarial drugs could dash hopes of controlling malaria in Africa, warn experts writing in the Malaria Journal. Millions of lives could be put at risk unless urgent action is taken, they argue. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-fake-malaria-drugs-threaten-crisis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:30:01 EST news246006669 The largest ever study to assess the effects of malaria and its treatment in the first trimester of pregnancy has shown that the disease significantly increases the risk of miscarriage, but that treating with antimalarial drugs is relatively safe and reduces this risk. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-malaria-pregnancy-trimester.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:45:14 EST news242969689 The problems of archaic logistics infrastructure, inefficient distribution channels and disruptive black markets must all be addressed urgently if Africa is to cope with the growing problem of malaria, according to a study published in the International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-logistics-approach-malaria-africa.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:11:00 EST news242910633 With the support of a Phase II grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Penn State materials scientists and medical researchers are working to develop a process to destroy malaria parasites in the blood using low-power microwaves. Dinesh Agrawal, professor of materials, and Jiping Cheng, senior research associate in the Penn State Materials Research Institute, are working with Penn State College of Medicine researchers and researchers at INDICASAT-AIP, Panama, and at Clarkson University, N.Y., to test the microwave treatment in vitro and in mice models. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-microwaves-malaria.html Medical research Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:16:51 EST news232359390