One of the greatest obstacles to the control of malaria has been the spread of resistance to drugs used on a large scale. This review provides an update of the current understanding of the molecular ...

Antimalarial drugs appear to follow a typical pattern, with early effectiveness eventually limited by the emergence of drug resistance. A report in the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, published by ...

Antimalarial drug resistance is a pressing issue in combating the spread of malaria worldwide. In a new study, researchers discovered a key process where malarial parasites take up a human blood cell ...

Researchers provide a guideline regarding who should be actually taking antimalarial drugs as prophylaxis to prevent getting COVID-19. They say health professionals who are being exposed to COVID-19 ...

WASHINGTON – Although the immediate side effects of antimalarial drugs are widely recognized, few studies were designed specifically to examine health problems that might occur or persist months or ...

Below we look at how anti-malarial drugs have evolved in Rwanda and which ones are currently available on the market. Artemether/Lumefantrine (Coartem) Artemether/lumefantrine, locally known by the ...

In June 2017, Betty Balikagala traveled to a hospital in Gulu District in northern Uganda. It was the rainy season: a peak time for malaria transmission. Balikagala, a researcher at Juntendo ...

Jeremiah Waweru Gathirwa receives funding from: Internal Research Grants of the Kenya Medical Research Institute and further funding from the International Foundation for Science Ruth Monyenye ...

The crucial role of zinc depletion in the action of a key antimalarial drug against the deadliest malaria parasite has been uncovered by a team led by RIKEN researchers. This finding provides valuable ...