Morning Briefing

"Antimalarial drugs are safer for pregnant women than contracting the disease," according to a study from the University of Oxford published in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases on Tuesday that "assess[ed] the effects of malaria and its treatment in the first trimester of pregnancy," HealthCanal.com reports. The researchers examined the medical records of women who attended an antenatal clinic at the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit in Thailand over a 25-year period and "found that malaria increased the risks of miscarriage from one in five pregnancies (in women without malaria) to one in two pregnancies," the news service adds (12/12).