Menzies School Of Health Research

This study tested a new way to completely cure vivax malaria, a type that can hide in the liver and cause people to get sick again. Researchers gave nearly 3,000 patients in Indonesia a faster, high-dose treatment. First, they used a simple finger-prick test to check for a common…

This study aimed to find out if giving children hospitalized with pneumonia a longer course of antibiotics leads to better health outcomes than a shorter course. Researchers compared two treatment durations in 314 children aged 3 months to 5 years. The goal was to determine the m…