Patients often tell Dr. Kiran V. Patel they've been sipping on quinine water to help ease leg cramps. Well-meaning relatives and even some doctors recommend it, said Patel, who's the director of ...

Scientists say adverse side-effects caused by the anti-parasitic drug quinine in the treatment of malaria could be controlled by what we eat. Scientists at The University of Nottingham say adverse ...

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The World Health Organization prefers Artemisinin to quinine in treating severe cases of malaria among children, a WHO official said Thursday. The World Health Organization prefers Artemisinin to ...

The research, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases is the fruit of joint project between investigators from around the world to conduct the largest individual patient data meta-analysis to date ...

Beginning in 2006, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a series of warnings not to prescribe the malaria drug quinine (Qualaquin™) for nocturnal leg cramps -- an off-label use -- because ...

Hypoglycemia may develop in patients with severe untreated malaria and can complicate the course of treatment with parenteral quinine as a result of quinine-induced hyperinsulinemia. Intravenous ...

July 8, 2010 — Physicians should not prescribe the malaria drug quinine (Qualaquin) for nocturnal leg cramps — an off-label use — because it may result in serious and life-threatening hematologic ...

At least 100 children in the Eastern district of Bukedea are currently deformed as a result of poorly administered quinine; an antimalarial drug. According to a story that was published in this ...

Chloroquine, which had been dumped because malaria-causing parasites had become resistant to it, is being resurrected as a treatment for the disease. New studies in Africa have revealed the drug is ...