Observational study results suggest antimalarials may have a broad protective effect against systemic damage in lupus nephritis. Among patients with biopsy-confirmed lupus nephritis, antimalarial ...

Among patients with incident rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) who were new antimalarial users, adherence to antimalarials (≥ 90% of doses) was associated with a lower ...

The battle to control malaria infection has been hampered by many factors, including emerging drug resistance. Now, two papers published in Nature have opened up the door to a wealth of compounds that ...

Much of common pharmaceutical development today is the product of laborious cycles of tweaking and optimization. In each drug, a carefully concocted formula of natural and synthetic enzymes and ...

New research published today in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, shows that the well-established group of antimalarials, known as artemisinins, are unlikely to be affected by resistance. The ...

Researchers on Wednesday unveiled the chemical structure of what could become the first in a new class of drugs to treat malaria. It’s an early but promising step in the effort to find new ways to ...

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Malaria medicines that are too weak or downright fakes are harming health and could aggravate drug resistance, says epidemiologist Paul Newton It’s big. A recent review by the WorldWide Antimalarial ...