Sentences with phrase «to treat malaria»

The researchers wondered whether aggressively treating malaria with such drugs might be a safe way to allow people to develop natural immunity.

By understanding the biology of the organisms the programme aims to find new ways to prevent and treat malaria such as new vaccines and drugs.

They use it to combat a large variety of illnesses.1 It has been successfully used to treat malaria parasites since the early»70s.

Olive leaf was recommended by British doctors for treating malaria patients; a handful of leaves were boiled down into a tea and administered in a wine glass every 4 hours.

«Our discovery brings hope for the millions of people suffering from Parkinson's disease, as the drugs that we have found to have worked in the laboratory tests have already been used to treat malaria in patients for decades,» said Assoc Prof Yoon, an expert in drug discovery and design.

He travels to local communities to talk with traditional healers who use local plants to treat malaria patients.

«Chloroquine has a long history of successfully treating malaria, and there are no reports of it causing birth defects,» says Terskikh.

In the case of treating malaria, semi-synthetic artemisinin may prevent millions of deaths from malaria while also throwing off the wormwood market for farmers of the herb.

Now we usually find it in tonic water, though it's still used in drugs that treat malaria as well.

Spraying insecticides and quickly administering what's called artemisinin - based combination therapy to treat malaria accounted for 22 % and 10 % of cases reduced, respectively.

We started treating malaria for almost one month but he was getting better so we went to Bolga and did all manner of tests and most of the test results were good, except two,» he said.

Treating malaria promptly not only increases a patient's chances of survival, but also helps prevent the disease from spreading to more people.

For decades, chloroquine was used to treat malaria until Plasmodium falciparum developed resistance.

Both Chloroquine and Amodiaquine are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and are used treat malaria infections.

Prof. Obinna Onwujekwe from the University of Nigeria, lead author of the study, said: «This study confirms that treating malaria based on signs and symptoms alone remains an ingrained behaviour that is difficult to change.

For example, the drug artemisinin is almost 100 percent effective at treating malaria, but it is also pricey, leaving the African and South American countries that need it most unable to afford it.

This Lake Highland Preparatory School student in Orlando, Fla., found new drugs that might one day treat malaria.

Little did I know then that when lemon is mixed with coffee, it is thought to help treat malaria... It is also an effective headache remedy.

«The over-prescribing of anti-malarials puts evolutionary pressure on the malaria parasite that risks hastening its resistance to artemisinin - based combination therapy — the frontline drugs used to treat malaria in Africa,» Stoler said.

Treating malaria with chloroquine is no longer a viable option for most people as the parasite has developed resistance to the drug.

The first attempt to use the active compounds of a willow bark to successfully treat malaria was carried out by Edward Stone in 1763.

The clinic manager, who spoke English, showed us that he had multiple types of ACT for treating malaria.

Jesuit missionaries in South America used quinine to treat malaria as early as 1600, but legend has it that they heard that it could be used to treat the illness from the native Andean population.

You might recall Shkreli as the ex-drug company CEO who gained notoriety when he acquired the patent to a drug used to treat malaria, cancer, and AIDS — then increased its price from $ 13.50 to $ 750 a tablet.

In September, the pair sent a letter to Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli after he jacked up the price of Daraprim, a drug used to treat malaria and parasitic infections in patients with weakened immune systems, from $ 13.50 to $ 750 per pill.

If you haven't followed this story, you'll remember Shkreli from his fame two years ago, when his biotech firm, Turing Pharmaceuticals, acquired the patent to a drug used to treat malaria, cancer and aids, and jacked up the retail price by more than 5,000 percent.

His company acquired the patent to a drug used to treat malaria, cancer, and AIDS, and increased its price from $ 13.50 to $ 750 a tablet — 5,455 percent.

Daraprim, which is also used to treat malaria, was approved by the F.D.A. in 1953 and has long been made by GlaxoSmithKline.

However, some medications used to treat malaria are not safe for breastfeeding infants who weigh less than 5 kg (11 lb), and should be avoided in breastfeeding mothers.

We have achieved quite a lot in treating malaria, but it is now time to eliminate the mosquitoes.

A new collaborative study led by researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) and UC San Diego School of Medicine has found that a medication used to prevent and treat malaria may also be effective for Zika virus.

Cobbling together the genes of three different species, chemical engineer Jay Keasling (Discover's 2006 Scientist of the Year) of the University of California at Berkeley transformed a metabolic pathway in yeast that allows the engineered microbe to produce a precursor to artemisinin, a compound used to treat malaria.

The roots of the blue evergreen hydrangea (Dichroa febrifuga) have been used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine to treat malaria.

«The longer we wait, or the longer we are not successful, the more difficult it will get to treat malaria — and thus to eliminate it.»

While failure to treat malaria can be fatal, the administering of unnecessary malaria medications as a result of misdiagnoses can results in new, drug - resistant strains of the disease in addition to increasing costs for malaria medications, Coté notes.

What's more, the researchers found that blocking this mechanism with HCQ — a drug used to treat malaria that has been shown in previous studies to block autophagy — limited BRAF inhibitor - induced autophagy and enhanced cancer cell death in mouse models.

The researchers injected live malaria parasites into the test subjects, at the same time preventing the development of the disease by adding chloroquine — which has been used to treat malaria for many years.

New research from Kumamoto University uses a DDS to treat malaria.

A model of a malaria - infected red blood cell may lead to better ways to treat malaria, according to a team of engineers and molecular biologists who investigated how this parasite infection causes the red blood cells to stiffen.

Furthermore, drugs used in chemotherapy or to treat malaria were found to affect the mobility of proteins in the nucleus and make the DNA thicket more permeable.

Scientists have developed a laboratory blood test which will detect whether Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites in a given patient will be resistant or susceptible to artemisinin, the key drug used to treat malaria.

NSG mice offer significant advantages over other mouse models for developing therapies to prevent and treat malaria.

«Plaquenil was first used to treat malaria but was later found to also have beneficial effects in patients with inflammatory arthritis such as rheumatoid and lupus,» said Dr. Steven Beldner.

Medicines for treating malaria have been shown to be effective in decreasing production of antibodies that attack the body's own organs and tissues.

Antimalarial drugs: Drugs that treat malaria may be used in combination with other medications to control lupus symptoms like skin rashes, mouth ulcers, and joint pain.

It's often touted as helping muscle cramps, and is used to treat malaria!