Word: artemisia
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...retired pharmacist, I found your article about malaria quite interesting [July 26]. You noted that a compound derived from an ancient Chinese herbal remedy, artemisia, "cures 90% of patients within three days, but it is in short supply." However, in your May 31, 1993, issue you reported that an artemisia remedy was "a couple of years away from widespread use." Perhaps there has been a delay in production because the cost has been overestimated and the rewards underestimated. But the firm that produces an affordable artemisia tablet would enjoy tremendous brand-name recognition worldwide. JACQUES M. DEWULF Wemmel, Belgium...
...successful, any antimalaria campaign must do two things: treat the illness and prevent the transmission of parasites. Several pilot studies conducted in Africa have proved that combination therapy, in which at least one of the medications is derived from a plant called Artemisia annua, or sweet wormwood, easily destroys drug-resistant malarial parasites in the bloodstream. Using several drugs at once, often in the same pill, greatly decreases the risk that the parasites will become resistant. As an added bonus, artemisinin, the active ingredient in Artemisia annua, acts very quickly, further decreasing the chances of drug resistance...
...Renaissance wasn't available to Susan Vreeland for her new book, The Forest Lover (Viking; 333 pages). Vreeland's previous novel was The Passion of Artemisia, about the Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi. Vreeland's heroine this time is the Canadian painter Emily Carr, who died in 1945, after devoting her life to painting Canada's Pacific coastal woodlands and its native tribes in a swelling, Expressionist style. For much of that time, Carr was scorned not only as a woman determined to paint but also as one who ventured into the wilderness to do it. Worse, her most beloved motif...
...great artist by any standard, and his wife Frida Kahlo, not a great painter by any reasonable judgment, but a tough and gifted woman who, owing to her hagiographic suffering (not to mention being ardently collected by the likes of Madonna), has become Exhibit A, by now somewhere above Artemisia Gentileschi in the pantheon of feminist art-saints. The live Colombian is probably the richest artist alive, the unbearably repetitious and banal Fernando Botero, 69, who has made millions, millions and millions of dollars painting and sculpting mountainously fat people over and over and over again. These sleek, bloated lumps...