News tagged with antimalarial drug


No idle chatter: Study finds malaria parasites 'talk' to each other

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 ...

Medical research created May 15, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Launch of semi-synthetic artemisinin a milestone for malaria, synthetic biology

Twelve years after a breakthrough discovery in his University of California, Berkeley, laboratory, professor of chemical engineering Jay Keasling is seeing his dream come true.

Medications created Apr 11, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New discovery could lead to powerful new anti-malaria drugs

An international study has discovered a molecule which could form the basis of powerful new anti-malaria drugs. The paper "Quinolone-3-Diarylethers: a new class of drugs for a new era of malaria eradication" has been published ...

Medical research created Mar 20, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Resistance to first line anti-malarial drugs is increasing on the Thai-Myanmar border

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 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 05, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Young malaria parasites refuse to take their medicine, which may explain emerging drug resistance, new study finds

(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 ...

Medications created Feb 19, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New drug puts malaria under the pump

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.

Medical research created Feb 14, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

HIV treatment reduces risk of malaria recurrence in children, study shows

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.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Malaria nearly eliminated in Sri Lanka despite decades of conflict

(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.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Aug 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Anti-inflammatory drugs may improve survival from severe malaria

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.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Poor-quality antimalarial drugs threaten to jeopardize progress made in malaria control over past decade

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 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gabon research centre says antimalarial drug within reach

A scientist at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital's medical research unit said Wednesday that trials of a new antimalarial drug were encouraging and paved the way for licensing.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Artemisinin-resistant untreatable malaria increasing rapidly along the Thailand-Myanmar border: study

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 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Combination drug treatment can cut malaria by 30 percent

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.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Comparing antimalarial drugs and their effects over the Plasmodium lifecycle

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 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fake malaria drugs threaten crisis in Africa

(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 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0