The team found partial resistance to the malaria drug artemisinin in 11 of 100 children, aged 6 months to 12 years, treated in Uganda for a complicated case of infection by the malaria parasite ...

After receiving repeated doses of artemisinin, a small group of women with PCOS had lower blood testosterone levels and healthier-looking ovaries, researchers report in the June 14 Science.

You may know it better as sweet wormwood. The plant contains a compound called artemisinin. It's the basis for a malaria drug called artesunate that doctors prescribe today. Some people believe ...

Artemisia annua is the only known plant source of potent antimalarial artemisinins, and its chemotypes are classified as low- and high-artemisinin producing (LAP and HAP). However, the different ...

"The supply of artemisinin is still kind of erratic, which causes prices to be erratic as well, and countries dealing with this endemic need a stable, cost-effective solution," Blumberg said.

Artemisinin derivatives are the mainstay of treatment of malaria, with IV artesunate being the preferred antimalarial for severe disease. Artemisinin is derived from leaves of the Chinese sweet ...

As the fourth-generation artemisinin compound, artemisinin-piperaquine had been registered in dozens of countries, said Wang Xinhua, former president of Guangzhou Medical University, senior ...

See privacy policy. With the confirmation that malaria parasites in Rwanda have developed resistance to artemisinin — a first-line drug used to treat malaria, which kills around 400,000 people a year ...

A new study shows disturbing evidence that malaria is becoming resistant to artemisinin, a drug critical for treatment in Africa. Although artemisinin resistance has long plagued the Mekong Delta ...

Manus Bio has received an undisclosed sum from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a cost-effective way to produce artemisinin, a malaria treatment, via fermentation. The foundation ...

The study, published in Nature, external, found the parasites were able to resist treatment by artemisinin - a frontline drug in the fight against the disease. This is the first time scientists ...