Malaria Parasite's Resistance to Top Drug Grows: WHO Nov 21, 2009
Artemisinin, derived from the sweet wormwood shrub, is the best drug available but misuse and over-prescription have led to the parasite becoming resistant to it. The best way to prolong the use of the drug would be to use it in combination with other antimalarial drugs. (MEDLINEplus)
In a Malaria Hot Spot, Resistance Grows to a Key Drug Nov 14, 2009
Artemisinin, which is still considered the most effective malaria treatment today, is derived from sweet wormwood, an herb native to Asia ... A nonprofit drugmaker in San Francisco hopes that by 2012, it will help put a synthetic artemisinin on the market at a fraction of the cost of harvesting the wormwood herb. (Time.com)
A Better Deal on Malaria Nov 14, 2009
Developed in 1994, the pill combines artemisinin, a compound derived from a wormwood plant, with lumefantrine, designed by Chinese scientists, which does not kill parasites as quickly but lingers in the blood longer to help prevent resistance. That Coartem was even discovered is remarkable, says Chris Hentschel, CEO of one of Novartis' partners, the Geneva-based nonprofit Medicines for Malaria Venture. (Time.com)
* Malaria diplomacy gives China leverage in Africa Nov 7, 2009
In a laboratory in Chinas southern city of Guangzhou, scientists are trying to enhance the rare sweet wormwood shrub, from which artemisinin X the best drug to fight malaria X is derived ... In one of the labs refrigerators sit a dozen triangular test-tubes holding seedlings of the sweet wormwood shrub, also called Artemisia annua, which has only been found in the wild in China, Vietnam and border areas in Myanmar ... Tanzania, Kenya and Nigeria have begun farming hybrids of the sweet... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
* World News Quick Take Oct 14, 2009
The relics, made up of portions of her thigh and foot bones, have attracted crowds in Catholic cathedrals, convents and even Wormwood Scrubs prison in London. UNITED STATES. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Saint's remains arrive for tour Sep 16, 2009
Over the next few weeks, the casket containing her bones will visit various sites, including the chapel of Wormwood Scrubs jail in London. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- UK)
Car Dealers of the Silver Screen Aug 31, 2009
6 of 9 Danny DeVito as Harry Wormwood in Matilda. Leave it to Roald Dahl, a sort of mean-spirited genius, to create a character like Harry Wormwood. (Slate)
Region Roundup Aug 17, 2009
Landowners are eligible for 50-50 cost share on Plateau for spurge control and Milestone for Canada thistle and wormwood control. For information, call 764-5593. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
A SUMMER COUNTRY GAL I'M NOT! Jul 12, 2009
There are usually creative books for sale like "How To Make An Indoor Rock Garden" or "Brain Surgery Self Taught." Or wormwood dressers -- with real worms in them. Or those ancient yellowed crocheted antimacassars and mildewed handmade afghans from when Louisa Mae Alcott was confirmed. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Herbal wine, just the thing for ailing pharaohs Apr 14, 2009
Chemicals recovered from the pottery indicate that in addition to wine there were savory, blue tansy and artemisia a member of the wormwood family present. Other chemicals indicate the possible presence of balm, senna, coriander, germander, mint, sage and thyme. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Technology to eradicate malaria Apr 11, 2009
The wormwood plant is a source of the antimalarial drug artemisinin ... There is already expected to be a shortage in 2010 owing to a lack of the Artemisia annua wormwood plant plant, the raw material for ACTs, being grown. (BBC News -- Health)
How to Make a Manhattan Cocktail Apr 3, 2009
One of the additives in the drink is wormwood, famously used in the making of absinthe. Wormwood is a woody shrub, and has a bitter taste to it. (Suite101.com)
Synthetic Biology Can Help Extend Anti-malaria Drug Effectiveness Mar 12, 2009
Fermenting artemisinin via engineered microbes, such as yeast, can be done at far lower costs than extracting the drug from Artemsisia annua, the sweet wormwood tree, making microbial-based artemisinin a much cheaper but equally effective treatment ... The cost of extracting artemisinin from wormwood trees, which only produce the drug under a narrow set of agricultural and climatological conditions, or manufacturing it entirely through chemical synthesis, is so high that impoverished populations... (Science Daily)
Welcome to Hoxford Mar 6, 2009
His credits include the serial Wormwood Gentleman Corpse and Singularity 7. When a deeply disturbed and violent inmate is transferred to a privately run mental prison called Hoxford, his psychiatrist discovers that the worst of the worst inmates are being transferred into the facility but never out. (IGN FilmForce)
