Malaria remains the most deadly parasitic disease in the world. Although it is not endemic to countries such as Spain, imported cases are diagnosed each year in people returning from areas where the ...

New research published today in Nature warns climate change could substantially increase malaria burden in Africa over the ...

After decades of stalled progress, new vaccines, treatments and genetic tools are helping scientists protect children and ...

Jenny Carlson Donnelly traveled to malaria-affected countries to test mosquitoes and save lives. Then she lost her job at U.S.A.I.D. Credit...Cheriss May for The New York Times Supported by Lost ...

A genetic technology known as a gene drive could help prevent malaria by spreading genes in wild mosquitoes that stop them transmitting the parasite. Tests in a lab in Tanzania have now confirmed that ...

Recent global health news highlights various challenges and changes, including a rise in malaria deaths due to drug resistance, a strategic shift in hepatitis B vaccination guidelines by U.S. advisers ...

Global Health Updates: Malaria Surge, Vaccine Policy Shifts, Delayed Dietary Guidelines Current health news includes WHO reporting a malaria death increase in 2024 amid funding challenges, a U.S.

A child is vaccinated against malaria on September 13, 2019 in Ndhiwa, Homabaya County, Western Kenya during the launch of a malaria vaccine in Kenya. The vaccine (Mosquirix) is the world's first ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers on Wednesday reported two promising new approaches to counteract malaria’s growing resistance to medication — one involving a new class of drugs. Sam Darnold and Seahawks ...

Hundreds of malaria patients participating in a Phase 3 clinical trial in Gabon in West Africa were cured via a single dose of a treatment that utilizes four widely available malaria drugs, according ...

This study used a cluster-randomised design in which each ward (cluster) was assigned to implement IPTsc or serve as a control. All schoolchildren in primary schools under the intervention arm ...

Every cell of the deadly Plasmodium falciparum parasite, the organism that causes malaria, contains a tiny compartment full of microscopic iron crystals. As long as the parasite is alive, the crystals ...