Artemisinin

Experts say it may only be a matter of time before the highly adaptable malaria parasite evolves to outsmart the compound artemisinin, which is currently the best – and last – line of defence against the disease. ❋ Unknown (2011)

At the same time, there are worrying signs that the malaria parasite in parts of Southeast Asia is becoming resistant to artemisinin, which is the mainstay of combination therapy for as many as 100 million patients world-wide. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The drug that is most effective at treating malaria is called artemisinin: it shocks the parasite out of your system and saves your life. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If approved, Coartem would be the first so-called artemisinin-based combination therapy, or ACT, for malaria on the U.S. market. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Now, this plant is an Artemisia plant, it's the basic component for artemisinin, which is the best-known treatment for malaria. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So, a team of Berkeley researchers with 15 million dollars from the Gates Foundation is engineering, designing a radical new way to make the key ingredient, called artemisinin, and they're going to make that drug 10 times cheaper. ❋ John Doerr (2007)

Medical workers are turning to a new drug called artemisinin, derived from a herb indigenous to Asia. ❋ Unknown (2005)

So scientists began mixing it with slower but more persistent drugs, creating what is now called artemisinin combination therapy. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Science features news articles focusing on recent progress on malaria - and in recent years, there have been major successes, "Science reports in a piece that attributes such successes to" the widespread introduction of insecticide-treated bed nets, indoor spraying, and a new generation of drugs called artemisinin-based combination therapies ❋ Unknown (2010)

In recent years a new type of treatment called artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACTs) has transformed the treatment of malaria, but if not used properly the medicine could become ineffective. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It reported that in the Mekong region on the border between Thailand and Cambodia, health workers are struggling to contain a strain of malaria that is becoming increasingly resistant to artemisinin, which is considered to be the most effective drug available against the disease.

New drugs, known as artemisinin combination therapies, or ACTs, are available for free in public health clinics, the Global Fund said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

African public health policy promotes the use of medications known as artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT); specifically artemether-lumefantrine (AL) for the treatment of malaria.

The drugs, called artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs), are out of reach to all but 20\% of those with the disease, which kills almost 1 million people worldwide every year.

In some African countries where drug-resistance is already widespread, the only effective therapies are a class of drugs known as artemisinin-based combination therapies ❋ Unknown (2008)

Current tools for combating malaria, such as artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) and increas ... ❋ Unknown (2010)