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Chinese Remedy To Challenge ‘Madam’ Anopheles

Posted by SWARAAJ CHAUHAN, International Columnist in Health.
Jun 4th, 2008 | View Comments

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A drug based on an ancient Chinese herbal remedy, first used more than 2,000 years ago, holds the promise to save millions of children who die each year from malaria. “Within two years there might be enough supplies to meet the needs of everyone in the world suffering from malaria – up to 500 million people – at a 10th of the cost of existing drugs.” More here…

  • Man, what a slow moving story. Artemisinin has been heralded since the 70s and is now in sufficient use that there is artemisinin resistant malaria. The challenge has always been to get it below a dollar a treatment. It's a mystery why the easy to grow plant hasn't been adopted as a home grown crude drug. You know, the way the ancient Chinese used it.

    And these schemes to grow drugs in yeast cell culture almost always sound better than they turn out.
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