Albendazole

GlaxoSmithKline and The Carter Center Reaffirm Commitment to Global Public Health with Expansion of LF Program

...tic filariasis (LF) with donation of one-billionth albendazole tablet and grant to The Carter Center LON... 2010 we will be able to supply four times as much albendazole as we do today." A clear example of the c...maceutical industry. This month the one-billionth albendazole tablet will be donated by GSK. Several countries ...

GSK Charitable Support Valued at $564 Million in 2007

...profits for the company (with the FTSE 100 average around 1%). Donations of albendazole treatments for the company's flagship program to eliminate Lymphatic Filari...on program which since 1998 has seen the donation of almost 750 million albendazole treatments by GSK. This program, now in the tenth year of GSK's inv...

Reindeers Could Hold the Key to Elephantiasis Cure

...rtunity for eliminating lymphatic filariasis is through medicines-combinations of the inexpensively purchased diethylcarbamazine (DEC) and the donated albendazole and Mectizan? (ivermectin). The principal goal of treating affected communities is to eliminate the microfilariae from the blood of infected individ...

Albendazole Effective In Reducing Seizures Caused By A Common Parasite

...s speculated treatment with the antiparasitic drug albendazole which they thought might help these patients reduc...n their brains to receive either 800 milligrams of albendazole per day and 6 milligrams of another drug, dexameth...percent reduction in the number of seizures in the albendazole group, although they say this number is not statis...

Antiparasitic Drug Effective In Reducing Seizures In Neurocysticercosis Patients

...s speculated treatment with the antiparasitic drug albendazole which they thought might help these patients reduc...n their brains to receive either 800 milligrams of albendazole per day and 6 milligrams of another drug, dexameth...percent reduction in the number of seizures in the albendazole group, although they say this number is not statis...

Albendazole in Biological News

DNA barcoding of mosquito species deployed in bid to end elephantiasis

...ials are identifying communities where LF is endemic and treating people at risk with annual doses of a combination drug therapy (albendazole / DEC or albendazole / ivermectin, freely donated by Merck and Co. and GSK respectively). The drug reduces the density of worm larvae in humans. This LF elimination st...

Albendazole in Biological Technology

LF Elimination Program Treats Over Half Billion People and Protects Millions More From Debilitating Disease

...per patient over the first eight years of the program is estimated to be less than US $0.50. This low cost is made possible in part by the donation of albendazole and Mectizan(R) from the program's two key pharmaceutical partners GlaxoSmithKline and Merck & Co., Inc. The cost-efficiency combined with the progr...