Researchers Say Drug Subsidies Led to Overtreatment of Malaria in Africa

Researchers Say Drug Subsidies Led To Overtreatment Of Malaria In Africa

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It slashed the cost of effective drug treatment and boosted its availability. But some critics argue the program has done more harm than good. It puts drugs in the hands of untrained, unsupervised shopkeepers, who don't know how to diagnose and …
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Ivermectin hair lotion found effective against lice

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However, in a previous study that did test other drugs as well, Pariser and his colleagues note that ivermectin showed a similar one-day success rate of 92.4 percent while malathion, an insecticide sometimes used to treat lice, cleared 82.4 percent of …
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