Anti-Allergy Drug Fights Malaria
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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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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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A drug that helps the immune system attack lung cancer cells may improve survival time.
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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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French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis has launched a cheap anti-malaria pill that could cut deaths from the killer disease in Africa.
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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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A transport system used by the malaria parasite to infect blood cells could be a target for new treatments, scientists hope.
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Researchers say targeting a protein may overcome the malaria parasite's increasing resistance to drugs.
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UNDATED A small, preliminary study shows an experimental drug can offer relief to victims of the poorly understood autoimmune illness Chron&#39;s (krohnz) disease.
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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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A simple, inexpensive and surprisingly powerful combination of treatments all but wiped out malaria in a group of H.I.V.-positive children in a study, scientists are reporting.
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The announcement of an effective malaria vaccine announced this week could become a life saver in areas of the world where deadly malaria claims millions of lives each year.
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A molecule which may protect against food allergy has been identified.
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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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NEW YORK - In a new study, researchers present molecular evidence to show that malaria parasites in Africa that are resistant to the drug pyrimethamine actually originated in southeast Asia.
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NEW YORK  - Hay fever sufferers may soon be   able to get their allergy shots in the form of a pill,   according to a European study.
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A gene could explain how parasites which cause malaria escape the action of some antimalaria drugs, say researchers.