It provides the first evidence that resistance to the lifesaving antimalarial drug may be emerging in the group of patients ...

Study suggests mutations linked to artemisinin-resistance are now being seen in most vulnerable malaria casesMutations in ...

Now, Zang et al. have designed a high-throughput screening (HTS) platform and identified the antimalarial drug artesunate (ART) as an effective inhibitor of cardiac fibrosis. ART improved cardiac ...

Malaria kills over 600,000 people a year, and as the climate warms, the potential range of the disease is growing. While some ...

Despite the promise against cancer shown by the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, clinical trials have proved ...

An international team of researchers have developed a promising new drug that could help combat the spread of ...

Resistance has already developed to all the antimalarial drug classes with one notable exception -- the artemisinins. These drugs are already an essential component of treatments for multidrug ...

While some drugs can effectively prevent and treat malaria, resistance to those drugs is also on the rise. New research from University of Utah Health has identified a promising target for new ...

Many of the children were also treated with a second (non-artemisinin) drug, lumefantrine. But a high number of kids who got ...