News tagged with antimalarial drug


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

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

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

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

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

Malaria during pregnancy: New study assesses risks during first trimester

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 ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dormant malaria parsites in red blood cells may contribute to treatment failure

Researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Public College Health have shown for the first time in a rodent model that the earliest form of malaria parasites can lay dormant in red blood cells and "wake ...

Medical research created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Enzymes possible targets for new anti-malaria drugs

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Monash University, and Virginia Tech have used a set of novel inhibitors to analyze how the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, uses enzymes ...

Medical research created Sep 21, 2011 | 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

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

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

A logistics approach to malaria in Africa

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 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0