Scientists are raising the alarm about a drug-resistant strain of malaria that's becoming a growing threat in southeast Asia and could spread to other countries where the parasitic infection is common ...

Historically, pregnant women have been excluded from clinical trials due to safety concerns, but the WHO is pushing for ...

In the previous blog post, I discussed how China’s efforts to promote its artemisinin-based drugs in the global market have ended up placing their pharmaceutical firms at the lower end of the supply ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The mosquito is one of the world’s most impactful forces. The breadth of transmissible diseases caused by a ...

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There is an effective treatment against malaria, but it is not accessible to all of the more than 200 million people worldwide who are affected by the disease. Millions, especially in the developing ...

Sanofi was recently awarded one of the US Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) prestigious “Patents for Humanity” awards. Please can you explain why Sanofi was ...

UPDATE (June 27, 2014): I receive more correspondence on this story than any other! You can find a much more detailed post about artemisinin here. The post is from 2012. If you aren't satisfied by ...

Evolving resistance in Southeast Asia is battering current frontline malaria drugs. Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) have been giving way, leading to rising treatment failures. Simultaneously, ...

Antimalarial drug resistance has arisen frequently in the past, causing familiar treatment regimens to fail, with sometimes devastating consequences. Resistance has eventually been managed when new ...