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 ...

Quinine treatment now highly regulated Quinine was once available as an OTC remedy used to treat leg cramps and malaria. Concerns over side effects led to its being banned by the FDA. Quinine is a ...

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 ...

Tonic water is a soft drink containing quinine, which gives it a bitter taste. Quinine is a common treatment for malaria. Some people believe that it can also help with leg cramps and restless legs ...

A post being circulated on social media post incorrectly claims the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which is being used by some doctors in the treatment of COVID-19, is the same as quinine. The ...

The Price section compares costs of the same generic drugs across brands and is purely for information purpose. Medindia neither buys nor sells drugs. Quinine (Quinine ) is an antimalarial agent, ...

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 ...

Chemists have long memories. The claim, dating back to 1918, that a crucial step in a synthesis of quinine had been carried out has been validated experimentally, closing a chapter in this fascinating ...