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 ...

Beginning in 2006, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a series of warnings not to prescribe the malaria drug quinine (Qualaquin™) for nocturnal leg cramps -- an off-label use -- because ...

Patients often tell Dr. Kiran V. Patel they've been sipping on quinine water to help ease leg cramps. Well-meaning relatives and even some doctors recommend it, said Patel, who's the director of ...

Scientists say adverse side-effects caused by the anti-parasitic drug quinine in the treatment of malaria could be controlled by what we eat. Scientists at The University of Nottingham say adverse ...

Tonic water is a carbonated soda water with dissolved quinine and often added sugars. Tonic water is higher in calories and sugars than many other mixed drink ingredients. Club soda could be a ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My husband drinks tonic water with quinine every day. He drinks as much as 1 1/2 quarts a day. Is that much safe? If not, what is a safe amount? The reason he drinks so much is because ...

In 1918, German chemists Paul Rabe and Karl Kindler published a method for the final steps in making the potent antimalarial drug quinine. Little did Rabe know that 90 years later his lab books would ...