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( University of California - San Diego ) Research by a collaborative group of scientists from UC San Diego School of Medicine, UC San Francisco and Wake Forest School of Medicine has led to identification of an existing drug that is effective against Entamoeba histolytica. This parasite causes amebic dysentery and liver abscesses and results in the death of more than 70,000 people worldwide each ...

A investigational drug derived from milk thistle seeds helped save the lives -- and livers -- of four people in the Washington, D.C., area who accidentally ate toxic mushrooms last fall. If approved, it could become standard treatment, experts say.

A team of researchers from UCSF and UC San Diego has identified an approved arthritis drug that is effective against amoebas in lab and animal studies, suggesting it could offer a low-dose, low cost treatment for the amoebic infections that cause human dysentery throughout the world.