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Home - OMRF News - Archives for malaria

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Doctor Cautions Enthusiasm For Possible Coronavirus Cure

March 24, 2020

OMRF’s Dr. Joan Merrill, who prescribes the malaria medication now being touted as a possible cure for coronavirus, is tempering enthusiasm for the drug.

Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: corona, coronavirus, covid-19, cure, Joan, kwtv, malaria, Merrill, news 9, news9, rona, scientist-news

Existing drug could work against coronavirus

March 16, 2020

The drug, chloroquine phosphate, was originally developed to fight malaria.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: CDC, chloroquine phosphate, corona, coronavirus, covid-19, covid19, doctors, epidemic, FDA, James, Judith, malaria, malarial, medication, news, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, oklahoman, OMRF, Pandemic, Prescott, scientist-news, scientists, stephen, steve, virus

Columbus brought more than ships to the New World

October 10, 2013

Explorers brought new infectious diseases with them to the Americas.

Filed Under: Featured News, News Tagged With: avian influenza, bird flu, black death, Columbus Day, infectious disease, influenza, malaria, measles, mutation, smallpox, Swine Flu, syphilis, Taino, tuberculosis

OMRF scientist takes aim at malaria

July 23, 2013

New research reveals a protein studied at OMRF plays a role in malarial stroke.

Filed Under: Diseases, Featured News, News, Research News Tagged With: Charles, charles esmon, clot, epcr, Esmon, malaria, malarial stroke, scientist-news, stroke

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