Observational study results suggest antimalarials may have a broad protective effect against systemic damage in lupus nephritis. Among patients with biopsy-confirmed lupus nephritis, antimalarial ...

Among patients with incident rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) who were new antimalarial users, adherence to antimalarials (≥ 90% of doses) was associated with a lower ...

The battle to control malaria infection has been hampered by many factors, including emerging drug resistance. Now, two papers published in Nature have opened up the door to a wealth of compounds that ...

Because lupus can cause a lot of different health problems, there are many different kinds of medicines that can treat it. You and your doctors can work together to find the right combination of ...

New research published today in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, shows that the well-established group of antimalarials, known as artemisinins, are unlikely to be affected by resistance. The ...

Much of common pharmaceutical development today is the product of laborious cycles of tweaking and optimization. In each drug, a carefully concocted formula of natural and synthetic enzymes and ...

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Malaria medicines that are too weak or downright fakes are harming health and could aggravate drug resistance, says epidemiologist Paul Newton It’s big. A recent review by the WorldWide Antimalarial ...