A subscriber's fears for her daughter alerted us to chloroquine, which is being prescribed to increasing numbers of travellers who return from further flung holidays with malaria. The daughter had ...
Lariam (mefloquine hydrochloride), the anti malarial drug produced by Hoffman-La Roche, has rarely been out of the news since its introduction in the 1980s. ...
Mefloquine, the anti malarial drug, is a major cause of post malarial neurological syndrome (PMNS), where the patient can suffer convulsions and tremors. ...
Mefloquine, the latest and greatest malaria drug, also comes with the worse side effects. The greatest of these is severe psychological disturbances, such as panic attacks and hallucinations, vom ...
There is one exciting development for malaria treatment on the horizon: a plant called qinghao, or wormwood, in the West, also known as Artemisia annua by the Chinese. ... ...
In the time honoured tradition of waste not want not, doctors are treating arthritis sufferers with an antimalarial drug. This Jack of all trades is oral hydroxychloroquine, which seems to help rh ...
* Larium under investigation
The US army has launched a study into the side-effects of antimalarial drug mofloquine (Lariam) following allegations that the drug might be linked to suicides