Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
People shun malaria testing over mistaken COVID-19 fears
Fears of contracting COVID-19 are preventing people accessing vital health services, experts say.
Mar 25, 2021
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News tagged with malaria treatment
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study: Malaria-preventive drugs dramatically reduce infections in school children
With nearly half of the world's population at risk for life-threatening malaria infections, University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers and their colleagues identified an important public health measure ...
Oct 23, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study explores the association of malaria, HIV with anemia during pregnancy
Pregnant women from sub-Saharan Africa with malaria and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have a higher prevalence of anemia than pregnant women without infections, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. ...
Aug 14, 2020
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Medical research
Research reveals defence against malaria parasites
A study involving researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) has found that platelets can attack and kill malaria parasites—reducing the number of parasites circulating in the blood.
Aug 1, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Prospects for new malaria interventions
April 25 marks World Malaria Day, an international event commemorated every year in recognition of global efforts to control malaria, one of the world's oldest and deadliest diseases. This year's theme, "Ready to beat Malaria", ...
Apr 25, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New evidence shows potential of two drugs to block malaria transmission
An international team of researchers has shown that two different compounds-one, an older malaria drug, the other a common laboratory dye with known antimalarial properties-can safely and effectively be added to treatment ...
Feb 6, 2018
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Research team finds no adverse risk to use of common antimalarials in first trimester of pregnancy
LSTM, University of Washington and international researchers publish the most comprehensive international analysis on artemisinin combination antimalarials safety in pregnancy
May 4, 2017
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Medications
Factfile on Nobel anti-malaria drug artemisin
Today's frontline drug to fight malaria, artemisinin has a history going back many centuries, for it traces its past to ancient Chinese medicine.
Oct 6, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Testing for malaria reduces overprescription by more than 70 percent
Using malaria rapid diagnostic tests in registered drug shops in a highly endemic region in Uganda substantially reduced overdiagnosis of malaria, improving the use of valuable malaria drugs, according to a new study published ...
Jul 22, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Ebola epidemic was disaster for malaria control, study finds
Untreated malaria in Guinea surged as a result of the Ebola scare and probably caused far more deaths than the dreaded haemorrhagic fever itself, doctors reported Wednesday.
Jun 24, 2015
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