In many genetic diseases, a small error in the DNA code can have devastating effects. These errors, called nonsense mutations ...

A team of scientists from Japan has identified the approved antimalarial agent, mefloquine, as a potential candidate to treat severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 ...

falciparum malaria. Patients underwent randomization for treatment with a fixed-dose combination of 180 mg of pyronaridine and 60 mg of artesunate or with 250 mg of mefloquine plus 100 mg of ...

Objective: To compare the efficacy and tolerability of mefloquine and proguanil in malaria prophylaxis in sickle cell anaemia. Design: Nonblind, prospective, multicentre study. Participants ...

Harin Karunajeewa receives funding from the Australian National Medical Research Council. Mefloquine, mainly sold as Lariam, is used to treat or prevent malaria – a parasitic illness transmitted ...

Mefloquine is an anti-malarial drug that can have many different side effects. Some of these can be difficult to handle if you’re not prepared. Mefloquine was prescribed for a large number of ...

In certain circles, including the military, the Peace Corps, and other organizations that send people into malarial zones for long periods of time, the drug – known as mefloquine -- has long had ...

Mefloquine is a once-a-week anti-malarial tablet for soldiers serving overseas An inquiry into the use of a controversial anti-malarial drug given to British military personnel is to begin taking ...

WASHINGTON -- A long-awaited report by Australian authorities into the effects of the anti-malaria drugs mefloquine and tafenoquine failed to draw the link many veterans around the world had hoped ...

That drug, he later said, was mefloquine. It was the first time during the trial that Donlevy's military background had been raised. No expert witnesses had been called at trial, and no medical ...