Web Links: Antimalarials
| Science Daily - August 26, 2010 | |
| Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered what it is in the bugs' molecular makeup that enables citronellal (the aromatic liquid used in lotions, sprays and candles) and DEET, to deter insects from landing and feeding on you. A better understanding of these molecular-behavioral links already is aiding the team's search for more effective repellents. |
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| Date Added: August 30 2010 | Visits: 1 |
| Science Dail - July 20, 2010 | |
| Healing powers for one of the world's deadliest diseases may lie within sponges, sea worms and other underwater creatures. | |
| Date Added: August 08 2010 | Visits: 4 |
| Science Daily - June 28, 2010 | |
| Healing powers for one of the world's deadliest diseases may lie within sponges, sea worms and other underwater creatures. |
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| Date Added: July 15 2010 | Visits: 7 |
| Science Daily- June 25th, 2010 | |
| Using an experimental mouse model for malaria, an international group of scientists has discovered that adding antioxidant therapy to traditional antimalarial treatment may prevent long-lasting cognitive impairment in cerebral malaria. Their findings were published online June 24, 2010, in the journal PLoS Pathogens. |
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| Date Added: June 28 2010 | Visits: 9 |
| Science Daily - May 5, 2010 | |
| Researchers have demonstrated how the parasite Plasmodium falciparum, which causes severe forms of malaria, is able to circumvent the action of artemisinin and its derivatives, which are today the first-line drugs used to treat this disease. | |
| Date Added: May 30 2010 | Visits: 9 |
| Science Daily - May 19, 2010 | |
| An international team led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have released data detailing the effectiveness of nearly 310,000 chemicals against a malaria parasite that remains one of the world's leading killers of young children. |
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| Date Added: May 30 2010 | Visits: 11 |
| The Guardian - January 10, 2010 | |
| Glaxo offers free access to potential malaria cures GSK boss says drug companies must balance need to satisfy shareholders with social responsibility |
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| Date Added: May 27 2010 | Visits: 11 |
| All Africa.com - May 25, 2010 | |
| Malaria Drug Proves Effective China has come up with a drug that is performing wonders in the treatment of malaria in some countries. The drug, Artequick, has slashed malaria cases in The Comoros to less than two percent from 23 percent. |
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| Date Added: May 25 2010 | Visits: 12 |
| Medical News Today - May 21, 2010 | |
| Studies Identify New Chemical Compounds That Could Lead To Development Of New Malaria Drugs Researchers have identified thousands of chemical compounds that could be used to develop new malaria drugs, two studies published in the journal Nature on Wednesday show, the Wall Street Journal reports. |
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| Date Added: May 23 2010 | Visits: 11 |
| Breitbart - February 8, 2010 | |
| Bad malaria pills in Africa raise resistance fears High rates of the most effective type of malaria-fighting drugs sold in three African countries are poor quality—including nearly half the pills sampled in Senegal—raising fears of increased drug resistance that could wipe out the last weapon left to battle a disease that kills 1 million people each year, according to a U.S. report released Monday |
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| Date Added: February 08 2010 | Visits: 28 |
| The Telegraph (UK) January 15, 2010 | |
| Plant could save millions from malaria Millions of people suffering from malaria now have new hope after British scientists unlocked the genetic map of the plant used to cure the disease. Scientists from the University of York have confidently predicted they will have high-yielding anti-malaria crops available for wide spread plantation in developing countries within two years |
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| Date Added: January 24 2010 | Visits: 43 |
| Rueters - January 22, 2010 | |
| Malaria drugs may help patients with lupus NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Drugs used to treat malaria may be useful for patients with lupus, a chronic debilitating "autoimmune" disease, according to according to a new report. |
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| Date Added: January 23 2010 | Visits: 38 |
| The Press - January 16, 2010 | |
| York scientists in malaria herb artemisia breakthrough A BREAKTHROUGH in meeting the high demand for malaria drugs has been made by plant scientists at the University of York. A team at the university’s Centre for Novel Agricultural Products has successfully mapped the genetic make-up of the medicinal herb artemisia, and now intends to use the information to increase yields of the crop. |
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| Date Added: January 15 2010 | Visits: 54 |
| EurekAlert - January 11, 2010 | |
| Discovery provides new drug targets for malaria cure Researchers are a step closer to developing new antimalarial drugs after discovering the normal function of a set of proteins related to the malaria parasite protein, which causes resistance to the front-line drug chloroquine. The findings also provide a novel tool for studying the malarial chloroquine-resistance factor. The study examined transporter proteins which are known to move compounds around the cell. The genes for these proteins are present in plants as well as the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum (known as clt and PfCRT respectively), so researchers used the model plant Arabidopsis to reveal that these proteins normally transport glutathione, an antioxidant which protects the cell from stresses. |
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| Date Added: January 11 2010 | Visits: 40 |
| ProMed - September 23, 2009 | |
| Artemisinin Resistant Malaria a concern, WHO [World Health Organization] say Artemisinin-based combination therapy, the most effective antimalarial treatment to date, and among the last resources in our arsenal of drugs against the disease, is seriously threatened by evidence of resistance to the treatment in the Cambodian-Thai border," said Shin Young-soo, WHO regional director for the Western Pacific. "Artemisinin-resistance needs urgent containment to prevent further spread of drug resistance." |
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| Date Added: September 30 2009 | Visits: 33 |
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