Researchers provide a guideline regarding who should be actually taking antimalarial drugs as prophylaxis to prevent getting COVID-19. They say health professionals who are being exposed to COVID-19 ...

A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of mefloquine antimalarial prophylaxis in pregnancy (>20 weeks of gestation) was conducted in 339 Karen women living in an area of multidrug-resistant malaria ...

A large LSTM-led trial confirms new antimalarial, dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine, is more effective at preventing malaria than current WHO recommended treatment but does not improve adverse birth ...

Malaria is a constant threat for nearly half of the world’s population, and people who travel to those areas are also at risk. Although the short-term side effects of prophylactic drugs are ...

Limited global supplies may scupper proposals to use the antimalarial drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, to lessen the symptoms of Covid-19 infection or ward it off altogether, say Italian ...

WASHINGTON — Veterans hoping a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine would vindicate their claims of serious long-term side effects caused by antimalarial drugs ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients SLE who received hydroxychloroquine were just as likely to develop severe COVID-19 as those who were ...

Almost all the drugs that are widely used today against Plasmodium spp., the causative agent of malaria, target the asexual blood stages of the parasite. Widespread drug resistance severely restricts ...

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said on Tuesday he takes hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug that U.S. President Donald Trump has promoted as a way to ward off the ...