New test can pinpoint which individuals with gonorrhea can be relieved with ciprofloxacin Kumar Jeetendra | August 7, 2020 A test made by UCLA researchers could pinpoint which individuals with gonorrhea will react successfully to the inexpensive oral antibiotic ciprofloxacin, which had formerly been sidelined over concerns the bacterium that causes the disease was becoming resistant to it. In study published in the peer-reviewed journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, a UCLA-led team found that of …
New medication like compound could adequately hinder a critical step in malaria parasite life cycle Kumar Jeetendra | May 19, 2021 Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and the Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis have designed a drug-like compound which effectively blocks a vital step in the malaria parasite life cycle and are working to develop this compound into a potential first of its type malaria treatment. While drugs and mosquito control have reduced levels of …