Save the tonic for gin. As the COVID-19 pandemic ravages the country, myths and junk science continue to flood social media. The latest bunk idea? That tonic water can help fight the coronavirus. Here ...

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 ...

Social media users have been sharing a video of a doctor making the primary claim that quinine present in Schweppes tonic water and zinc will "knock out" the COVID-19, the illness caused by the new ...

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 ...

Malaria is one of the world's "big-three" infectious diseases. In 2020 alone, it infected roughly 240,000 million people and caused 630,000 deaths worldwide. Quinine, an alkaloid derived from the ...

image: If we look at how the bark of the cinchona tree is used to treat malaria, we can see the cutting-edge chemistry of quinine binding an enzyme essential for the malaria parasite’s survival. But ...

One of the biggest issues for soldiers during the American Civil War was disease. As Levi Coman continued his letter written April 27, 1862, his thoughts turned towards his health: “When I read of the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Tuesday ordered companies to stop selling unapproved drugs containing quinine, which is approved only in one anti-malaria drug and can have serious ...

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