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Roche wins FDA approval for first test to detect malaria in blood donors
27 Mar 2024 19:51 GMT
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a … and tissue donors.
The FDA has strict guidelines to prevent … said: “As the first FDA-approved blood screening test … has Lariam (mefloquine) as an FDA-approved drug for the treatment of malaria …
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MOD facing 686 claims from troops alleging harm from side effects of anti-malaria drug
13 Mar 2024 12:54 GMT
… use of the anti-malaria drug Lariam, according to the Government.
Mefloquine … is only prescribed by a doctor and after other options have … (DMICP) and reported to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency …
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Vet’s lawsuit blaming antimalarial drug for psychosis tossed
29 Nov 2022 22:41 GMT
… the generic version of the drug Lariam.
Similar cases had been brought … property rights and won FDA approval for Lariam in 1989, said … in 2013 after the FDA put a black box … and later as bipolar, though medications, including antipsychotics, did not …
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Former soldier withdraws action over alleged ill-health from taking antimalarial drug
08 Nov 2022 16:11 GMT
… anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medications, his counsel told the court … the minister said Lariam was the compelling antimalarial drug of choice, as … drug.
He said the plaintiff was an adult who attended a medical … not raising this with medical officers there.
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Former soldier sues State over side-effects of anti-malarial drug
01 Nov 2022 22:50 GMT
… prescribed the anti-malarial drug Lariam for his deployment to … anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medications, said counsel.
He left … plaintiff had attended a medical briefing that warned about … drug’s side-effects, said Mr Reidy.
There were two Irish medical …
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Book Review: If You Wake at Midnight: The Lariam Wonder Drug Scandal
30 Sep 2022 17:41 GMT
… You Wake at Midnight: The Lariam Wonder Drug Scandal, by Andrew Marriott …
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Russia Claimed It Created a Coronavirus Cure, but It’s an American Malaria Drug
29 Mar 2020 15:45 GMT
… about the remedy based on the drug mefloquine, an antimalarial drug created in … Medical Center shortly after the Vietnam War and widely known as Lariam … the coronavirus. Multiple clinical trials for potential medical treatments are still underway.
The …
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Soldiers to be offered choice of malaria drug after Lariam controversy
12 Jan 2020 10:10 GMT
… that Lariam, officially known as mefloquine, was the default malaria medication for … the recommended anti-malaria medication can be Lariam or two other products … that medical advice consistently recommended that Lariam was the most suitable drug for …
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When Drug Side Effects Pose Real Dangers
12 Dec 2019 16:41 GMT
… psychotic hallucinations from the drug Lariam, which the Centers … associated with all antidepressants.
All drugs, prescription and over … harmful drug-drug interactions, many risks linked to medication result … the ability of a statin to lower cholesterol, …
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DEFENCE ‘FORCED’: Army drug trial queried over soldier suicide deaths
17 Dec 2019 13:43 GMT
… Frost – were the subjects of drug trials that have since been found … to anti-malarial drug mefloquine, also known as Lariam, which was … adverse events” from a trial in which hundreds of soldiers … you take part in ADF drug trials? Contact the author: rohan …