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‘Landmark’ advance, as malaria vaccine first to hit WHO goal

Anna Malpas, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 24 04:13 AM

A new malaria vaccine has proven 77 percent effective in trials on infants, British researchers said Friday, in what could prove to be a potential game-changer against the deadly mosquito-borne disease.   Read more »

7 of top 10 killers pre-COVID era were non-communicable diseases: WHO

Robin Millard, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 10 06:59 AM

The WHO's new Global Health Estimates, adding 2019 data to statistics going back to 2000, found that people were living longer lives -- but those extra years were not necessarily lived in good health. Read more »

WHO warns malaria fight flat-lining

Robin Millard, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 30 10:39 AM

Progress in eliminating malaria has stalled in recent years, the World Health Organization said Monday, with more than 400,000 people once again estimated to have died from the disease last year. Read more »

Unbreakable? After malaria and COVID-19, man survives cobra bite in India

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 22 12:09 AM

A British charity worker who survived coronavirus, dengue and malaria was recovering after a potentially deadly snake bite in western India's Rajasthan state.    Read more »

Invasive Asian mosquito species threatens African cities: study

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 15 08:28 AM

WASHINGTON - A species of mosquito originally from Asia threatens to put tens of millions of city-dwellers in Africa at higher risk of catching malaria as the invading insect spreads throughout the continent, a study said Monday.   Read more »

Fighting mosquito-borne diseases... with mosquitoes

Nicolas Gubert and Amélie Baubeau, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 27 06:28 AM

As infection rates of illnesses carried by mosquitoes increase, companies and researchers are racing to develop effective means of controlling the blood-sucking creatures' population. Read more »

Pandemic risks 'surge' in infectious disease deaths

Patrick Galey, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 14 07:16 AM

PARIS, France - Poorer nations could see hundreds of thousands of additional deaths from HIV, tuberculosis and malaria as COVID-19 disrupts vital health services and access to life-saving treatment, new research warned Tuesday. Read more »

WHO halts trial of malaria drug in COVID-19 patients

Kate Kelland and Emma Farge, Reuters
Posted at Jun 18 09:27 AM

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that testing of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in its large multi-country trial of treatments for COVID-19 patients had been halted after new data and studies showed no benefit.   Read more »

How a vaccine made of mosquito spit could help stop the next epidemic

Clare Baldwin, Reuters
Posted at Jun 12 07:12 AM

The vaccine, if it pans out, would protect against all of the pathogens the insects inject into humans - malaria, dengue, chikungunya, Zika, yellow fever, West Nile, Mayaro viruses and anything else that may emerge. Read more »

Proofs that life will go back to the old normal

Roberty Labayen
Posted at Jun 09 12:06 AM

With modern medicine, it has been proven that humankind eventually defeats even a mega killer disease. Read more »

Malaria drug touted by Trump fails to prevent COVID-19 in high profile study

Michael Erman, Reuters
Posted at Jun 04 07:50 AM

The malaria drug promoted by US President Donald Trump as a treatment for COVID-19 was ineffective in preventing infection in people exposed to the coronavirus, according to a widely anticipated clinical trial released on Wednesday.  Read more »

Hydroxychloroquine: a drug dividing the world

Jean-Philippe Chognot, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 02 11:42 AM

Banned in some countries, promoted in others -- the drug hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for the new coronavirus is dividing opinion worldwide.   Read more »

WHO suspends hydroxychloroquine trial as COVID-19 treatment

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 26 03:21 AM

The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday it had temporarily suspended clinical trials of hydroxychloriquine as a potential treatment for COVID-19 being carried out across a range of countries as a precautionary measure.   Read more »

How viruses change the world, and how it can be good

Robert Labayen
Posted at May 18 10:31 AM

It is unfortunate that many have died from Covid-19. The only comfort we may have is to be able to find good things in the bad.  Read more »

EMA warns against malaria drugs' side effects in COVID-19 use

Reuters
Posted at Apr 23 08:51 PM

The European Union's drug regulator warned again on Thursday against using two older malaria drugs to treat COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus, outside trials or national emergency use programs, citing potentially lethal side-effects. Read more »

US govt experts warn against coronavirus drug combo promoted by Trump

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 23 01:01 AM

A US government expert panel has formally recommended against using a drug combination promoted by President Donald Trump to fight the coronavirus, because of its potential harmful impact on the heart.   Read more »

Hydroxychloroquine linked to higher death rate, shows no benefit to COVID-19 patients: study

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 22 06:44 AM

WASHINGTON - A malaria drug widely touted as a potential cure for COVID-19 showed no benefit against the disease over standard care -- and was in fact associated with more deaths, the biggest study of its kind showed Tuesday. Read more »

Novartis, U.S. regulators agree to malaria drug trial against COVID-19

Reuters
Posted at Apr 20 01:27 PM

ZURICH - Novartis has reached an agreement with U.S. regulators to hold a randomized trial of generic malaria drug hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19 disease in 440 hospitalized patients, the Swiss drugmaker said on Monday. Read more »

Doctors warn of scarcity of malaria drug amid COVID-19 treatment trials

Patrick Galey, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 02 08:13 PM

Limited global stocks of 2 anti-malarial drugs could wreck plans to use the medicines, currently in clinical trials, to treat COVID-19, doctors cautioned on Thursday. Read more »

What is chloroquine and could it cure the new coronavirus?

Issam Ahmed, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 01 03:22 AM

Could a pair of decades-old, relatively inexpensive drugs be the solution to the novel coronavirus pandemic?   Read more »