New malaria drug targets children
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A new, low-cost drug is launched to combat malaria, aimed at children in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Scientists say they have developed an effective vaccine against malaria that could be ready in six years.
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Federal health advisers on Wednesday recommended approval of the first new cancer drug in the past decade specifically aimed at treating the most common childhood leukemia.
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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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A new blood test that can identify malaria infections within 15 minutes won approval from U.S. health officials on Tuesday.
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In a proof-of-concept study published this week in The Lancet, researchers report that GlaxoSmithKline&#39;s RTS,S/AS02A malaria vaccine candidate protected a significant percentage of children against uncomplicated malaria, infection, and even severe forms
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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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A gene could explain how parasites which cause malaria escape the action of some antimalaria drugs, say researchers.
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Administering co-trimoxazole, a cheap, widely used antibiotic, to HIV-positive children could dramatically cut AIDS-related deaths in Africa.
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The search to find an effective drug to fight malaria received a huge financial boost today with a donation of $42.6 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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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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The World Health Organization has recommended a new treatment for HIV-positive children which researchers say can dramatically cut death rates.
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A drug used to treat behaviour problems in children has been linked to liver damage, say experts.
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pediatric leukemia drug developed by Southern Research Institute of Birmingham. It is the first new treatment in a decade for children who have been stricken with the life-threatening disease.
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British and Kenyan scientists have developed a new treatment for the killer disease malaria.
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Drugs used to treat malaria  appear to reduce the risk of malignancy in patients with  systemic lupus erythematosus, Spanish researchers report in the  Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.
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The World Health Organization has turned  to Africa -- where a child dies every 30 seconds from malaria  -- for urgently needed new stocks of a Chinese plant needed to  make a key antimalarial drug, a top official said.