WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Doctors in the U.S. military are still dispensing an anti-malaria drug federal regulators say can cause brain damage.

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OTTAWA, April 12 (UPI) -- Some Canadian veterans are questioning why troops are still being given an anti-malarial drug the U.S. military abandoned because of potential mental illness.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Consumer Reports, the independent ratings-and-recommendations publication, is just out with a list of 12 drugs it says have "known or suspected serious risks" p

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- In a virtual replay of a controversy in the United States, Australian soldiers claim they suffered serious mental problems after taking an anti-malaria drug.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- In an eerie echo of a long-running controversy in the United States, Australian soldiers are claiming they suffered serious mental problems after taking an anti

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- The World Health Organization has warned countries to monitor the use of anti-malarial medications to ensure the malaria parasite does not develop resistance to the drugs.

WASHINGTON, July 12 (UPI) -- A former Peace Corps volunteer says the controversial anti-malaria drug Lariam triggered such severe mental illness she had to leave her post -- but the agency is ignoring the problem.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Another Special Forces soldier who served in Afghanistan shot himself to death at Fort Bragg last week after wounding his ex-wife and her boyfriend, according t

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A military doctor who linked brain damage in several soldiers to a controversial malaria drug now says he doesn't know whether the drug played any role in those disorders. The doctor, Navy Cmdr. Michael Hoffer, said he changed his mind based on new inf

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The number of suicides by soldiers serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom dropped last year by at least half -- a decline that helped lower significantly the Army's

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Six Special Forces soldiers who committed suicide during the past several years were all taking a controversial anti-malaria drug, UPI reports.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army has admitted giving Congress incorrect information about suicides and a controversial malaria drug in Iraq last year, UPI reports.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Here are responses to the two articles about the military's use of the anti-malaria drug Lariam published by United Press International on Sept. 7.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- A startling pattern of violence and suicide by America's most elite soldiers has followed their use of a controversial anti-malaria drug, an investigation by Un

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- The Army has acknowledged giving Congress incorrect information about use of an anti-malaria drug in units in which suicides occurred in Iraq last year.

WASHINGTON, July 15 (UPI) -- The Army has dropped all legal action against a soldier who was charged with cowardice in Iraq, apparently because an Army malaria drug made him sick. The case of Staff Sgt. Georg-Andreas Pogany drew national attention last year because he was the first

WASHINGTON, June 24 (UPI) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs is warning doctors to watch for long-term mental problems and other health effects from an anti-malaria drug given to soldier

WASHINGTON, June 24 (UPI) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs is warning doctors to watch for long-term problems from Lariam, a malaria drug used in Iraq and Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON, June 4 (UPI) -- The first U.S. soldier charged with cowardice since the Vietnam War is suffering from damage to his brainstem that likely was caused by the anti-malaria drug he

WASHINGTON, May 26 (UPI) -- Six U.S. soldiers have been diagnosed with permanent brain damage from an anti-malaria drug used in Iraq and Afghanistan, a U.S. senator said.

WASHINGTON, May 26 (UPI) -- Six U.S. soldiers have been diagnosed by the military with permanent brain damage from an anti-malaria drug used in Iraq and Afghanistan, and health officials m

MONUMENT, Colo., May 11 (UPI) -- Early one Sunday evening in March, Army Special Forces soldier Bill Howell fed his 7-month-old daughter a bottle and fell asleep with her for half an hour on th

WASHINGTON, April 12 (UPI) -- The Veterans Administration says it will review health effects of an anti-malaria drug given to thousands of U.S. troops.