Kidney drug could save children from malaria brain damage - The Observer 17th February 2008

Researchers have discovered that a drug, widely used in the West by kidney-failure patients, could protect millions of children from the brain damage inflicted by severe malaria. The breakthrough is the work of scientists based at laboratories run by Britain's Medical Research Council in Gambia. They found that children whose blood contains high levels of the hormone erythropoietin (Epo) recover from cerebral malaria, the deadliest form of the disease, better than those who have less.

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