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Malaria Parasites Evade Drugs Using Young Blood Cells: Study
Thiruvananthapuram, June 17 ( IANS) Scientists at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (BRIC-RGCB) here have identified a new mechanism that allows malaria parasites to withstand artemisinin, the world’s most widely used anti-malarial drug.
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Trump Defends His Use Of Malaria Drug As "A Line Of Defence" Against Virus
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended taking a prescription malaria drug to try to ward off the novel coronavirus despite medical warnings about its use.
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Swiss Pharmaceutical Giant Novartis To Inject $100 Million Into New Treatments For Malaria
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis on Tuesday announced $100 million of funding over the next five years for research into new treatments for malaria, a mosquito-borne disease with a devastating impact that killed 445,000 people in 2016.
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Shortage Of Malaria Drug Points To Better Tool Against Ebola
As doctors struggled to treat growing numbers of patients during the Ebola crisis in West Africa, the shortage of one helpful drug may have led to the discovery of a better one.
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Chinese Nobel Medicine Winner, 84, 'Not Really Surprised'
Tu Youyou, the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel prize for medicine, said today she was "not really surprised" to be recognised after a remarkable career which saw her team test a breakthrough malaria drug on themselves during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.
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New Anti-Malarial Treatment Provides Hope in Battle Against Drug Resistance
Trials show new drug could kill parasite and prevent the spread of malaria, which kills over half a million a year, and would cost around $1 per treatment.
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Drug-Resistant Malaria Spreading Fast in South East Asia
Drug-resistant malaria parasites are now firmly established in border regions in four Southeast Asian countries, imperilling global efforts to control the disease, experts warned on Wednesday.
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Malaria Parasites Evade Drugs Using Young Blood Cells: Study
Thiruvananthapuram, June 17 ( IANS) Scientists at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (BRIC-RGCB) here have identified a new mechanism that allows malaria parasites to withstand artemisinin, the world’s most widely used anti-malarial drug.
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Trump Defends His Use Of Malaria Drug As "A Line Of Defence" Against Virus
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended taking a prescription malaria drug to try to ward off the novel coronavirus despite medical warnings about its use.
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Swiss Pharmaceutical Giant Novartis To Inject $100 Million Into New Treatments For Malaria
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis on Tuesday announced $100 million of funding over the next five years for research into new treatments for malaria, a mosquito-borne disease with a devastating impact that killed 445,000 people in 2016.
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Shortage Of Malaria Drug Points To Better Tool Against Ebola
As doctors struggled to treat growing numbers of patients during the Ebola crisis in West Africa, the shortage of one helpful drug may have led to the discovery of a better one.
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Chinese Nobel Medicine Winner, 84, 'Not Really Surprised'
Tu Youyou, the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel prize for medicine, said today she was "not really surprised" to be recognised after a remarkable career which saw her team test a breakthrough malaria drug on themselves during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.
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New Anti-Malarial Treatment Provides Hope in Battle Against Drug Resistance
Trials show new drug could kill parasite and prevent the spread of malaria, which kills over half a million a year, and would cost around $1 per treatment.
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Drug-Resistant Malaria Spreading Fast in South East Asia
Drug-resistant malaria parasites are now firmly established in border regions in four Southeast Asian countries, imperilling global efforts to control the disease, experts warned on Wednesday.
