News tagged with malaria drug

Breakthrough in the battle against malaria

An international team of scientists has announced a breakthrough in the fight against malaria, paving the way for the development of new drugs to treat the deadly disease.

Medical research Nov 29, 2011 | 4.2 / 5 (6) | 3 |

Researchers use new finding to clear bloodstream malaria infection in mice

University of Iowa researchers and colleagues have discovered how malaria manipulates the immune system to allow the parasite to persist in the bloodstream. By rescuing this immune system pathway, the research team was able ...

Medical research Dec 12, 2011 | 5 / 5 (5) | 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 Feb 27, 2012 | 5 / 5 (4) | 1 |

Malaria drug treatment breakthrough

An international study, involving researchers from Griffith University's Eskitis Institute, has discovered a molecule which could form the basis of powerful new anti-malaria drugs.

Medications Mar 22, 2013 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 0 |

Breakthrough in malaria research looks to body's immune cells

Groundbreaking research from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research is set to pave the way for the development of new malaria drugs and vaccines.

Medical research Nov 25, 2011 | 5 / 5 (2) | 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 Apr 05, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 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 May 08, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

New study: Cheap, common drug could dramatically reduce malaria transmission in Africa

A cheap, common heartworm medication that is already being used to fight other parasites in Africa could also dramatically interrupt transmission of malaria, potentially providing an inexpensive tool to fight a disease that ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Jul 06, 2011 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Chloroquine finding may lead to treatments for arthritis, cancer and other diseases

In a study published recently in the journal Science Signaling Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) scientists demonstrate on the molecular level how the anti-malaria drug chloroquine represses inflammation, which may provid ...

Medical research Jul 18, 2011 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Researchers locate protein that could 'turn off' deadly disease carrier

Researchers from Boston College have discovered a protein that plays a pivotal role in the progression of the deadly diseases toxoplasmosis and malaria and shown that its function could be genetically blocked in order to ...

Medical research Jan 12, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 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 May 23, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

'Coca-Cola' model for delivering malaria meds is a success, researcher says

(Medical Xpress)—A controversial program that uses the private market to provide affordable malaria treatments to people in Africa has dramatically increased access to care and should be continued, according to a policy article by scholars including Ramanan Laxmin ...

Medications Nov 13, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

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