Stories tagged artemisinin

The lead sentence: Johns Hopkins University Researchers have cured malaria-infected mice with single shots of a new series of potent, long lasting synthetic drugs modeled on an ancient Chinese folk remedy."

Pretty cool, although it's not ready for testing in humans yet.

Mosquito: Malaria is spread by mosquitoes infected by a parasite. But a new drug might help eliminate the disease. (Photo USDA)

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Tags : mosquitos, drugs, malaria, infectious disease, pharmaceuticals, artemisinin, pharmacology

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