Priming the antimalarial pipeline

Priming the Preceptor Pipeline: Collaboration, Resources, and Recognition: The Report of the 2015-2016 Professional Affairs Standing Committee.

a South Carolina College of Pharmacy, Charleston, SC b American College of Clinical Pharmacy, Lenexa, KS c American Pharmacists Association, Washington, DC d American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Bethesda, MD e Chapman University School of Pharmacy, Irvine, CA f Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy, Ada, OH g National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Arlington, VA h Notr...

Clinical Pharmacology of the Antimalarial Quinine in Children

Quinine is the best studied drug for treating severe malaria in very young children. Quinine may be administered in pregnancy and, at therapeutic doses, malformations have not been reported. Some strains of quinine from Southeast Asia and South America have become resistant. Quinine is the treatment of choice for the drug-resistant severe Plasmodium falciparum. The antimalarial mechanism of qui...

The History of Antimalarial Drugs

Antimalarial natural products: a review

Objective: Malaria is an infectious disease commonplace in tropical countries. For many years, major antimalarial drugs consisted of natural products, but since 1930s these drugs have been largely replaced with a series of synthetic drugs. This article tries to briefly indicate that some plants which previously were used to treat malaria, as a result of deficiencies of synthetic drugs, have rev...

Antimalarial activities of Breynia Nivosa

Background & Aim: Antiplasmodial activity of leaf extract of Breynia nivosa was evaluated to ascertain the folkloric claim of its antimalarial activity. Experimental: The crude leaf extract (75 – 225 mg/kg), of Breynia nivosa was investigated for antiplasmodial activity against chloroquine sensitive Plasmodium berghei infections in mice. The antiplasmodial activity d...