Chloroquine
19 Mar 2020
The US has approved the anti-malarial drug chloroquine for use as a treatment against the new coronavirus, President Donald Trump said Thursday.
20 Feb 2020
In the early months of this year, a virus broke out, leading to the death of so many people. This virus is popularly known as Coronavirus and has been named as COVID-19 by World Health Virus. However, there seems to be a breakthrough as it has been announced recently that Chloroquine Phosphate is the new…
17 Dec 2019
A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Science and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, both in India, has found that the antimalarial drug chloroquine can make the tuberculosis
3 Dec 2018
Anti-malaria drugs known as chloroquines have been repurposed to treat cancer for decades, but until now no one knew exactly what the chloroquines...
28 Nov 2017
Antimalarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine could find another use as cancer treatments, according to a new clinical study published in ecancermedicalscience.
20 Nov 2017
A new collaborative study led by researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) and UC San Diego School of Medicine, United States (U.S.), has found that a medication...
20 Jan 2017
The Federal Government in 2005 banned the use of Chloroquine and Sulfadoxine - Pyrimethamine as first line drugs in the treatment of malaria because increasing evidence of drug resistance, which had led to treatment failures.
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