Malaria Drug Found Effective Against SARS
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The anti-malaria drug chloroquine could be used to treat the SARS respiratory illness which killed hundreds of people last year, virologists at the Belgian Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) said on Friday.
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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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Clinical trials are under way in the UK to test how effectively it combats the increasingly drug-resistant malaria parasite. The drug is a synthetic, simpler version of a traditional
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Roche AG&#39;s Tamiflu anti-influenza drug has been proven to work against H5N1, the strain of the avian flu virus that the World Health Organization says could be the source of a deadly flu pandemic.
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A gene could explain how parasites which cause malaria escape the action of some antimalaria drugs, say researchers.
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Genentech and Biogen Idec's drug shows positive results against multiple sclerosis.
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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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Encouraging phase II results of a trial to test the efficacy of a malaria vaccine for young children is published in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (pp 1380, 1411).
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The worldâs most promising malaria vaccine has been shown to work in infants less than a year old, the most vulnerable group.
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Researchers at Queen Mary Hospital, London, have revealed that Roche&#39;s Tamiflu, an anti flu drug, works against the bird flu virus H5N1 strain (the most lethal one).
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Scientists have taken an important step towards developing an effective malaria vaccine, announcing in today&#39;s edition of the Lancet that a candidate vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline will protect a significant number of children.
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New data presented at the InterScience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), Washington DC confirm that Tamiflu (oseltamivir), an oral neuraminidase inhibitor (NAI), is effective against human and avian H5N1 influenza virus.
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Chinese researchers have developed a  SARS vaccine that has passed the first stage of human trials,  state media reported on Monday, raising hopes for prevention of  a virus that killed some 800 people since it emerged in 2002.
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Targeting a key protein may help overcome the malaria parasite's increasing resistance to existing drugs, UK researchers say.
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The Chinese government announced in Beijing on December 5 that the world&#39;s first vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) emerged from the phase-one clinical test as both safe and effective.
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The first effective malaria vaccine promises to save millions of lives. Scientists were jubilant last Thursday when results of the trial involving children between one and four years in southern Mozambique