Tonic water elicits images of sparkling drinks and stirred concoctions, but it has a history that reaches beyond the bar. Its roots go back centuries, starting with the Andes and the cinchona tree, ...

Can a medicine cause a war? The treatment for Malaria may just have. Can a medicine cause a war? When chemists isolated a new compound from the bark of a South American tree, they had no idea they ...

image: If we look at how the bark of the cinchona tree is used to treat malaria, we can see the cutting-edge chemistry of quinine binding an enzyme essential for the malaria parasite’s survival. But ...

Malaria is one of the world's "big-three" infectious diseases. In 2020 alone, it infected roughly 240,000 million people and caused 630,000 deaths worldwide. Quinine, an alkaloid derived from the ...

In this study, we will show how a Dutch pharmaceutical consortium of cinchona producers and quinine manufacturers was able to capitalize on one of the first international public health campaigns to ...

The story of tonic water starts in the 17th century, when Jesuit missionaries in the Andes discovered what local native healers already knew: the bark of the cinchona tree had healing properties. One ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Tuesday ordered companies to stop selling unapproved drugs containing quinine, which is approved only in one anti-malaria drug and can have serious ...