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Anyone who’s ever taken the antimalarial drug Mefloquine will tell you about the dreams. I was back in Haditha, Iraq, where Wimberg was killed. I was in the alleyway between the two buildings re ...
U.S. troops given anti-malaria drug despite concern of side effects 04:33. WASHINGTON --When Jimmy Corrigan left on deployment in the Navy three years ago, he was in the best physical shape of his ...
Mefloquine was approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1989. Then, in 2013, the FDA published a safety alert about the drug and placed a black box warning on the drug label.
Early the morning of March 11, 2012, Army staff sergeant Robert Bales left his remote outpost in an impoverished region of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan and killed 16 people in two nearby villages.
Researchers from LSTM Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group publish two systematic reviews this week about the safety of mefloquine (Lariam) for preventing malaria in travellers.
Early 2020 saw the world break into what has been described as a "war-like situation": A pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the likes of ...
Mefloquine for preventing malaria during travel to endemic areas. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews , 2017; DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006491.pub4 Cite This Page : ...
Pyronaridine–artesunate was noninferior to mefloquine plus artesunate for the primary outcome: adequate clinical and parasitologic response in the per-protocol population on day 28, corrected ...
WASHINGTON -- A long-awaited report by Australian authorities into the effects of the anti-malaria drugs mefloquine and tafenoquine failed to draw the link many veterans around the world had hoped ...