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There is a treatment, but it's done ad-hoc: > Until now there have been no approved malaria drugs specifically for babies. > Instead they have been treated wi
by roywiggins 1y ago
There is a treatment, but it's done ad-hoc:
> Until now there have been no approved malaria drugs specifically for babies.
> Instead they have been treated with versions formulated for older children which presents a risk of overdose.
- _heimdall 1y agoThe claim still holds then that there are no approved treatments for malaria in this age range. If we were already treating patients off book, and that were the reason we couldn't have a control group, then there is no real reason to do the study at all.