Malaria quickly kills toddlers. But rapid diagnostic tests, a new suppository drug and bicycle ambulances can buy enough time to get stricken children to hospitals.
Tag: Drugs (Pharmaceuticals)
11 things we’d Really like to know: Will We Ever Cure Alzheimer’s?
Few drugs have been approved for treatment of this dementia, and none works very well. It has become one of the most intractable problems in medicine.
Global Health: Rapid Cure Approved for Sleeping Sickness, a Horrific Illness
Parasites transmitted by tsetse flies travel to the brain, causing paranoia, fury and death. Until now, killing them required hospitalization and harsh drugs.
Iranians Fear Medicine Shortages as U.S. Tightens Sanctions
Harsh restrictions against doing business with Iran have made it nearly impossible for pharmaceutical companies to continue working in the country.
In China, Desperate Patients Smuggle Drugs. Or Make Their Own.
Despite health insurance, terminally ill patients have to hunt around the world and on the internet for ways to stay alive.