However, researchers are urging caution about the preliminary results of the drug, called suramin. The study was extremely small and involved only boys, who were given just one dose of the drug.

He researched more than two thousand drugs and found one that might help. That drug was Suramin. Dr. Naviaux tested one dose in a clinical trial of ten boys. Five got the drug. Dr. Naviaux shared ...

Headlines tout it as a "new hope" drug for autism, but suramin, a 100-year-old drug used for African sleeping sickness, isn't new and any hope associated with it requires some tempering.

Administering a single dose of 100-year-old drug suramin -- originally developed to treat African sleeping sickness -- can improve symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children ...

In a small, randomized Phase I/II clinical trial (SAT1), researchers say a 100-year-old drug called suramin, originally developed to treat African sleeping sickness, was safely administered to ...

He researched more than 2,000 drugs and found one that might help. That drug was Suramin. Dr. Naviaux tested one dose in a clinical trial of 10 boys. Five got the drug. “Children began to talk ...

Suramin is a drug that has been used to treat African sleeping sickness and river blindness for over a hundred years. Suramin has also been shown to be an inhibitor against a wide variety of ...

Dordick said that thing that makes a difference is suramin. Dordick and his team of researchers say the 100-year-old drug, used for human sleeping sickness, may prove just as effective in ...

smegmatis generated by antibiotic treatment showed high levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which consequently resulted in the rapid emergence of drug resistance to single and multiple ...

He conducted the study. The study tested the efficacy of suramin, a WHO-approved drug used for treating sleeping sickness and infections. "It showed that a combination of Suramin during ...