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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

Block its recycling system, and cancer kicks the can: study

All cells have the ability to recycle unwanted or damaged proteins and reuse the building blocks as food. But cancer cells have ramped up the system, called autophagy, and rely on it to escape damage in the face of chemotherapy ...

Cancer created May 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Drug could reverse scourge of cerebral malaria for survivors

Michigan State University researchers, with the help of a groundbreaking medical device, are starting a clinical trial in Africa they hope will provide relief for the hundreds of thousands of children who ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study finds early signs of malaria drug resistance in Africa

Africa's deadliest malaria parasite has shown resistance in lab tests to one of the most powerful drugs on the market -- a warning of possible resistance to follow in patients, scientists said Friday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 27, 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

WHO hails big gains in anti-malaria fight

The World Health Organisation heralded major gains Tuesday in the fight against malaria, one of the developing world's biggest killers, but warned universal access to treatment remains elusive.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

WHO hopeful drug-resistant malaria can be contained

The World Health Organisation said Tuesday it was optimistic drug-resistant malaria that has emerged along Thailand's borders with Cambodia and Myanmar could be contained within the region.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UN appeals for $3.2 billion to meet malaria goal

(AP) -- The global campaign to fight malaria is appealing for $3.2 billion to try to reach the U.N. goal of "near-zero" deaths from the mosquito-borne disease by 2015.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Novel method combats malaria drug resistance

Researchers from the University of Notre Dame's Eck Institute for Global Health developed a "gene chip" to contribute to the identification of malaria drug resistance, an effort that will allow for real-time response in modified ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | 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

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

How open source could help malaria treatment

In open source drug discovery all data and ideas are freely and immediately shared, and anyone may participate at any level.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Modified bone drug kills malaria parasite in mice

A chemically altered osteoporosis drug may be useful in fighting malaria, researchers report in a new study. Unlike similar compounds tested against other parasitic protozoa, the drug readily crosses into ...

Medical research created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

India's global pharmacy role threatened by EU pact

(AP) -- Efforts by India and the European Union to strengthen trade are threatening India's ability to deliver lifesaving medicines to the world's poorest, analysts say as the two sides push through protracted ...

Medications created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0