Sanction of a single 300mg dose of GlaxoSmithKline’s tafenoquine in patients 16 years and above for the "radical cure" of malaria was advocated by an FDA advisory committee on finding significant evidence for its efficacy and safety.
Scientists from the Melbourne Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US) have discovered a new vaccine for malaria, revealing an 'atomic-scale' blueprint of how the parasite seize human cells using a new technology called CRYO-EM (cryo-electron microscopy).
Malaria is a global health problem, where millions of people are being affected. It is a well-known fact that artemisinin is the only effective anti-malarial drug which is produced from the Chinese medicinal plant Artemisia annua. Currently, the prevailing issue is that the cultivation of Artemisia annua leaves cannot meet the global demand.
A team of scientists from Tubingen Institute of Tropical Medicine, and German company Deutschen Malaria GmbH, discovered a new combinational medicine which could effectively cure malarial without any side effects
A simple key strategy discovered by the research team at the London School of Tropical Medicine, will turn out to be a major breakthrough in the field of Malarial prevention. Malaria-infected children were more prone to malarial mosquitoes by producing distinctive skin smells, compared to uninfected children.
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