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Artesunate Amivas (artesunate) granted approval in Europe for treatment of severe malaria

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63  AMIVAS Ireland Ltd., specialists in treatments for rare and neglected tropical diseases, including severe malaria, announced today the European Commission has granted approval...

CMV: FDA approves Livtencity for treating post-transplant infections

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Livtencity (maribavir) as the first drug for treating adults and pediatric patients (12 years of age and older and weighing at least 35 kilograms) with post-transplant...

Ukraine: 4 out of 10 people purchased drugs whose effectiveness and safety have not been proven

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63  An analysis by the Center for Combating Corruption conclude in a new study that 4 out of 10 people purchased drugs that are ineffective and absent in modern treatment standards....

COVID-19

Monoclonal antibody treatment highly effective at reducing COVID-19 hospitalizations

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Researchers this week published interim results in The New England Journal of Medicine from a Phase 3 study of the COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment sotrovimab, sponsored...

Antibiotics: Cubicin recalled due to presence of glass particles

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Merck announced voluntarily recalling one lot of CUBICIN® (daptomycin for injection) 500mg for intravenous use, Lot 934778, Exp June 2022. Because treatment with CUBICIN is likely...

Herpes Treatment: Taiwanese and Chinese companies team up to work on long-acting UB-621

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 United BioPharma announced this week that Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre and Cheng Kung University’s Department of Microbiology and Immunology have joined United...

FDA Approves Expanded Pediatric Indication for HIV Treatment Regimen

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Gilead Sciences, Inc. today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new low-dose tablet dosage form of Biktarvy® (bictegravir 30 mg/emtricitabine 120...

COVID-19

Merck plans to submit for EUA for COVID-19 pill, molnupiravir

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Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics announced recently that molnupiravir (MK-4482, EIDD-2801), an investigational oral antiviral medicine, significantly reduced the risk of hospitalization or death at...

Cerebral Malaria

Uganda: Artemisinin-resistant malaria detected by Japanese and African researchers

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews From a press release from Juntendo University in Bunkyo City, Tokyo (computer translated): Malaria is transmitted from person to person through mosquitoes and causes...

Utah health officials: ‘Ivermectin is NOT a COVID-19 drug’

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Recently, the Utah Department of Health became aware of a patient who ingested large doses of ivermectin in an attempt to treat symptoms of COVID-19. The patient suffered...