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Artemisinin

Can Artemisinin also be created form the plant at home ? Also read that it can be made syntheticly since recently ? perhaps include in article if this substance (pure artemisinin) can be made at home —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.246.144.106 (talk) 15:46, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is it still true that there is no resistance against artemesinin? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.216.37.50 (talk) 09:29, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Warburg's Tincture

I have added Warburg's Tincture to this article page. I hope my addition is satisfactory. I have stated this drug is no longer used as antimalarial. I had added the internal link code for ease of readers to access the article on Warburg's Tincture.--Roland Sparkes (talk) 02:43, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hydrangea

Dichroa febrifuga (Shang shan) was appearantly used as a medicine aswell. See http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/02/secrets-of-ancient-chinese-remedy-revealed/ , http://www.herbcyclopedia.com/index.php?option=com_zoo&task=item&item_id=340&Itemid=193 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.182.177.243 (talk) 15:25, 15 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Create new article specifically for antimalarial resistance

Dear All

I propose the creation of an article specifically on Antimalarial drug resistance. To do this there would need to be a consensus in favour, so please let me know what your views are.

I am confident that this article is needed because antimalarial resistance is a large and important subject in its own right, constituting a global threat to efforts to control malaria. In an analogous way I note there is an article on Antibiotic resistance in addition to the one on Antibacterials, and to my knowledge antimalarial resistance is generally regarded as being as important as antibiotic resistance.

Currently the section on antimalarial resistance is limited to three shortish segments within what is already a large article on antimalarials (and to which more detail is likely to be added). In my view both Antimalarials and the material on Resistance would benefit from revision, but I (and presumably others) are disinclined to do this if an article feels cramped and poorly structured. I also observed that the current resistance section has only one reference (for the statement that resistance is common). I think we can do better.

The proposal would be to separate this into two articles, with one obviously linked to the other. I could create the new article with several sections and 10-20 references to get it going. Relevant content from Antimalarials could easily be transferred to the new article.

I am very grateful for any feedback on this. I will also post a similar section on WikiProject_Pharmacology.

Regards Scientist2 (talk) 04:10, 30 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Peptide with implemented RNA strain

The peptide with with implemented RNA strain made by Sidney Altman and Choukri Ben Mamoun should be mentioned. See http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/vaccine_development/318424-drug-candidate-prevents-growth-of-malaria-parasite/

Doxycycline Mechanism of Action

Doxycycline blocks ribosomal protein production in bacteria, but not in eukaryotic plasmodium. Instead, it exerts its antimalarial effect by inhibiting the expression of apicoplast genes.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1563505/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.166.49.47 (talk) 08:22, 2 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Article needs updated information

WHO guidelines on article are from 2010 and pricing of Mefloquine is from 2000. WHO Malaria treatment was updated in 2015. The article needs updated information. Simarv (talk) 03:02, 14 September 2019 (UTC) https://www.who.int/malaria/publications/atoz/9789241549127/en/[reply]

unreliable medical advice

There are a dozen cite needed banners on this page, but I am less concerned with that and more concerned how all this uncited material got added in the first place. The volume of entirely un-sourced material and the medical nature of this article has me very tempted to delete large and well writen sections just because the risk of uncited medical information is far too great and sections of this article appear to be medical advice. (WP:MEDICAL) With anti-malarials being tested against covid-19, this page needs serious attention and perhaps even semi-protected. I'll leave this open for consensus

--1.159.5.208 (talk) 16:36, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Antimalarial Drug Classes

In reference to the line from the article stating it's "practical to consider antimalarials by chemical structure since this is associated with important properties of each drug, such as mechanism of action": there seems to be more than one way to classify these drugs. https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/64891 is on the classification by stages of the life-cycle of the parasite and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK215631/ simply states that there are "three broad categories according to their chemical structure and mode of action". I don't see where the practicality of these classifications is discussed. Penguinmlle (talk) 16:31, 15 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]