The death rate among children with severe malaria was nearly one-fourth lower when they received a new drug called artesunate than when they got the standard treatment of quinine, a new study shows.

Artesunate "still the best" first-line therapy for kids with severe malaria, researcher sa ...

Across Africa, when a child is admitted to hospital with severe malaria, doctors reach for the quinine (or send the family to buy it). It's the first, and probably the only, drug they think of. For ...

Starting next month, intravenous (IV) artesunate will be the first-line treatment for severe malaria in the United States, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced. The ...

Artesunate and its metabolite DHA are both active against the blood-stage asexual parasites and gametocytes of Plasmodium species including the chloroquine resistant strains. Artesunate for Injection ...

Artesunate is an antimalarial agent, prescribed for malaria. The serum concentration of the active metabolites of Artesunate can be reduced when Artesunate is used in combination with Amiodarone ...