The first-ever treatment for malaria in young babies and infants has been approved. On Tuesday, Novartis announced it had received approval for the treatment, Coartem Baby (known as Riamet Baby in ...

New research shows the malaria parasite could be developing resistance to the current front-line treatment for the disease — a drug that has saved millions of lives. An anti-malaria drug that has ...

Malaria is one of the most widespread and deadly infectious diseases worldwide. New compounds are continuously required due to the risk of malaria parasites becoming resistant to the medicines ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Alice Nekesa did not know she was infected with malaria-causing parasites until it was too late. She was in the fourth month of pregnancy last year when she started bleeding, a ...

Switzerland's medical products authority has granted the first approval for a malaria medicine designed for small infants, touted as an advance against a disease that takes hundreds of thousands of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pyronaridine, a common malaria drug, has been used for more than 50 years. The agent could be repurposed to ...

Researchers have tested a new combination of medications that could thwart resistance to common malaria drugs, significantly reducing the infection risk in pregnant women living with HIV. The WHO ...

This medium is used to grow malaria parasites. By allowing malaria parasites to evolve over time in controlled conditions and analyzing their genomes, researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine ...

Leading scientists are warning that “urgent action” is needed to protect millions as current medicine is proving ineffective against a strain of the mosquito-borne illness Smith Collection/Gado/Getty ...

A malaria drug President Donald Trump took to try to prevent COVID-19 proved ineffective for that in the first large, high-quality study to test it in health workers and others closely exposed to ...

The parasite that causes the deadly disease malaria is full of tiny crystals that constantly spin—a mystery for decades. New ...