Scientists Make Malaria Drug Based on Herbal Remedy
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Scientists have created a synthetic drug  which could offer new hope in the fight against malaria.
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DESPITE an exciting new development this week in the race to find cheaper and more effective malaria drugs, a group of scientists is urging health authorities to consider screening travellers from malaria-infested areas to prevent the spread of drug
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The anti-malaria drug chloroquine could be used to treat severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) researchers claimed this week. A research team at the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) in Belgium say that
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Scouring remote regions for plants, oils and extracts can yield cures â and big profits â for pharmaceutical companies and indigenous tribes.
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A new investigation offers a model for attacking what has become a flood of fake drugs, which threaten to undermine the global fight against malaria.
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Mosquitoes' thirst for sugar could prove to be the answer for eliminating malaria and other mosquito-transmitted diseases, say scientists.
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India&#39;s Ranbaxy Laboratories said Wednesday it&#39;s developed a new anti-malarial drug, claiming it would cost less but work as well as drugs now used for the disease that kills more than a million people a year worldwide.
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For the first time, researchers say, a vaccine against malaria has shown that it can save children from infection or death.
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Using a cocktail of drugs may help doctors more effectively treat three of the world's most common parasitic diseases, researchers working in Zanzibar reported on Wednesday.
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A drug given to pregnant African women in malaria-endemic regions remains effective at preventing malaria's harm to developing babies even as it loses its ability to treat children with the disease, experts said.
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A German study has added weight to the argument that a herbal remedy is an effective treatment for depression.
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If SARS comes back to haunt the world again, a team of Belgian scientists may have discovered a new weapon to use against it. Chloroquine, a drug used to fight malaria since World War II, has been found to
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After more than two decades of effort, researchers say they have found the first vaccine that is effective against malaria. Trials in Africa showed that the vaccine blocked almost half of new infections in
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Scientists have created a synthetic drug which could offer new hope in the fight against malaria. Nearly two billion people live in areas affected by malaria.
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Herbalists say they have discovered cheap Anti-Retrovirals drugs. And for that, they want the government to integrate them into the national health care system.
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By Anonymous  Tests in mice reveal that astemizole, a drug developed to treat allergies, kills the malaria parasite with high efficacy. Astemizole is already licensed for use in people, so it could be rapidly approved for use against malaria.
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Scientists have discovered a promising new method to fight a range of diseases by boosting the body's natural defenses against viruses.