Mefloquine would certainly be the easiest regimen to ... has been shown to have 83% protective efficacy in semi-immune Kenyan adults vs only 72% in nonimmune transmigrants in Indonesia.

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 for preventing malaria during travel to endemic areas. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews , 2017; DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006491.pub4 Cite This Page : ...

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 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.

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.

The top doctor for Green Berets and other elite Army commandos has told troops to immediately stop taking mefloquine, an anti-malaria drug found to cause permanent brain damage in rare cases. The ...

The antimalarial drug mefloquine could help treat genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, as well as some cancers. In these diseases, a mutation in the genetic code ...

By adding mefloquine to the mix, doctors might be able to reduce the dose of aminoglycosides needed. That would mean fewer side effects, which could open the door for longer and safer treatment.

Review the side-effects of Mefloquine as documented in medical literature. The term "side effects" refers to unintended effects that can occur as a result of taking the medication.