Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) have been giving way, leading to rising treatment failures. Simultaneously, new resistance hot spots are being discovered in the region.

Artemisinin is frequently combined with other medications to create artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), and for the most part, the drug is now genetically engineered from yeast.

Artemisinin is derived from the sweet-smelling Artemisia annual, an Asian plant with beautiful flowers and eye-catching fern-like leaves. Science has proven that the crop has served as an effective ...

Artemisinin is derived from leaves of the Chinese sweet wormwood plant (Artemisia annua). Extracts from these leaves have been used in China dating back more than 1,500 years for their reported ...

"The supply of artemisinin is still kind of erratic, which causes prices to be erratic as well, and countries dealing with this endemic need a stable, cost-effective solution," Blumberg said.

Artemisinin-based combination therapies - known for short as ACTs - are recommended by the WHO against malaria, especially those types now resistant to chloroquine, which is one of the main drug ...

Artemisinin is currently the most effective treatment in the fight against multi-drug-resistant forms of malaria, and the World Health Organization recommends artemisinin-based combination ...

The best therapy today for malaria is a drug combination that includes a derivative of artemisinin, now solely available from plants grown in Asia and Africa. On Apr. 11, Sanofi will launch the ...

Artemisinin is a potent antimalarial compound produced naturally by the Chinese shrub Artemisia annua, commonly known as sweet wormwood. Currently,however, the low amount of artemisinin produced ...

Emergence of artemisinin-resistant malaria on the western border of Thailand: a longitudinal study. The Lancet, 2012; DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736 (12)60484-X ...

In my previous blog post, I described how artemisinin-based drugs were discovered in China in the 1970s and 1980s. Given their potency for the treatment of malaria, one would expect that Chinese ...

Artemisinin derives from the sweet wormwood plant (Artemisia annua) grown predominantly in China and Vietnam, and more recently in some African countries, including Madagascar and Kenya.