Index of all Articles in the Drug Allergy Category

• Proper Medical Identification could save your LIFE
  
  Everyone with a medical condition or allergy should have a medical id alert bracelet. There are many places that you can find a wide variety of medical alert jewelry styles, especially on the internet. Most are custom-engraved, stainless steel medical ID b



• Medical Alert Bracelets for Children
  
  Children arent exempt from having medical conditions, so it is important for those who do have medical problems to wear a child medical alert bracelet.

  Parents cant always be there in the event of a medical emergency; and with kids at school all day,

• Single-dose of experimental malaria drug clears parasites in mice, represents potential new class of drugs to treat ...
  
  An experimental malaria drug was shown to effectively treat the disease in mice with only a single dose, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science, Reuters reports (Kelland, 9/2). The new drug, known as NITD609, "represents an entirely new class of medicines to treat malaria ... Human trials, backed by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG, could begin later this year," the ...
  


• Malaria drug candidate with new mechanism tests well in mice
  
  Sep 3, 2010 (CIDRAP News) – An experimental malaria drug that has a different mechanism from older drugs cured laboratory mice with a single dose, raising hope for eventually providing a powerful new weapon against the disease in humans.
  


• Experimental Novartis drug shows malaria promise
  
  An experimental Novartis drug can clear malaria infection in mice with a single dose and scientists say it shows promise as a possible future treatment for one of the world's major killer diseases.
  


• Prescription Drug Use Rose to Include Half of Americans in 2008, U.S. Says
  
  Almost half of Americans took at least one prescription drug per month in 2008, an increase of 10 percent over the past decade, a U.S. study found.
  


• NIH-sponsored research yields promising malaria drug candidate
  
  ( NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ) A chemical that rid mice of malaria-causing parasites after a single oral dose may eventually become a new malaria drug if further tests in animals and people uphold the promise of early findings. The compound, NITD609, was developed by an international team of researchers including Elizabeth A. Winzeler, Ph.D., a grantee of the ...