After artemisinin: searching for the next front-line malaria drug It's been decades since the last new antimalarial drug was developed. More are … ...

One of the most widely-used anti-malaria drugs, artemisinin, no longer works on a strain spreading in parts of southeast Asia ...

Artemisinin-based combination therapies - known for short as ACTs - are recommended by the WHO against malaria, especially those types now resistant to chloroquine, which is one of the main drug ...

Artemisinin as a Natural Anticancer: Here's Why To Go To Tijuana, Mexico For This Alternative Treatment Chemotherapy, radiation, invasive surgery, and other types of conventional cancer solutions are ...

In my previous blog post, I described how artemisinin-based drugs were discovered in China in the 1970s and 1980s. Given their potency for the treatment of malaria, one would expect that Chinese ...

Artemisinin derivatives have become the first-line treatments for uncomplicated and severe malaria with improved mortality, side effect profiles and accessibility.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have developed a method to synthesize the highly potent antimalarial drug artemisinin, which could lead to a ...

Artemisinin-resistant malaria is prevalent in mainland Southeast Asia; investigators are testing a new, potent antimalarial that could help in the fight.

The best therapy today for malaria is a drug combination that includes a derivative of artemisinin, now solely available from plants grown in Asia and Africa. On Apr. 11, Sanofi will launch the ...

Partial resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to the artemisinin component of artemisinin-based combination therapies, the most important malaria drugs, emerged in Southeast Asia and now threatens Ea ...

Emergence of artemisinin resistance on Thai-Myanmar border raises spectre of untreatable malaria Date: April 8, 2012 Source: Wellcome Trust Summary: The most deadly species of malaria parasite ...