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Neal's Yard Remedies Stores Rapped By Medicines Regulator, UK
08 May 2008
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has clamped down on a homeopathic remedy intended to be viewed as a treatment or preventive for malaria sold by the cosmetic chain, Neal's Yard Remedies...
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Serious Illness In Infants Infected With Chikungunya Virus
08 May 2008
The chikungunya virus rarely harms the infants of mothers who are
infected early in pregnancy, but frequently causes serious issues
including persistent brain injury to babies born to mothers who get
the virus near the time of delivery...
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One In Three Malaria Drugs Failing In Africa
07 May 2008
35% of antimalarial drugs sold in six major African cities failed basic quality tests according to Plos ONE, a peer-reviewed open-access journal. The study further found that artemisinin monotherapies, which the World Health...
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