Swiss medical regulators have approved a new malaria treatment for infants, offering hope to many in Africa KAMPALA, Uganda - ...

Swiss regulators have approved the first malaria treatment safe for infants. The new drug, known as Coartem Baby or Riamet ...

Dr. Quique Bassat, a malaria expert not affiliated with the Swiss review, said the burden of malaria in very young children is “relatively low” compared to older kids.

When fosmidomycin was first described in 1978, its antibiotic and antiparasitic properties had scientists hopeful that they ...

But a high number of kids who got the two-drug combination therapy also saw their illnesses come back, suggesting that the malaria parasite might be developing resistance to lumefantrine, too.

The first drug to treat infants sick with malaria is approved by Swiss authority The newly approved medication, Coartem Baby, is a combination of two antimalarials. It is a lower dose version of a ...

Dr. Quique Bassat, a malaria expert not affiliated with the Swiss review, said the burden of malaria in very young children is “relatively low” compared to older kids.

The malaria parasite may be gaining resistance against artemisinin, the drug most often used to try and save children with mosquito-borne malaria.© Adobe Stock/HealthDay News ...

Published: July 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM Updated: July 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM ...

GENEVA – Switzerland's medical products authority has granted the first approval for a malaria medicine designed for small infants, touted as an advance against a disease that takes hundreds of ...