It is being seen as an alternative to Lariam, the controversial anti-malaria pill that can cause unpleasant side-effects, including neurological disturbances, but which is the only drug ...

Experience with mefloquine (Lariam®) in infants less than 3 months old or weighing less than 5 kg is limited. § Atovaquone/proguanil (Malarone®) should only be used in uncomplicated malaria ...

Livingstone, Zambia — Under the umbrella of the global World Malaria Day theme, "Malaria Ends with Us: Reinvest, Reimagine, Reignite," the J.C. Flowers Foundation convened key partners at its ...

Researchers have discovered how a parasite that causes malaria when transmitted through a mosquito bite can hide from the body's immune system, sometimes for years. It turns out that the parasite ...

Researchers have shown that the evolution of a family of exported proteins in the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum enabled it to infect humans. Researchers from the Francis Crick ...

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered how a parasite that causes malaria when transmitted through a mosquito bite can hide from the body's immune system, sometimes for years.

Despite increased malaria control efforts, recent reports indicate that over 1.2 million deaths due to malaria occurred in 2010. Pregnant women represent a particularly vulnerable risk group as ...

The fund, supported by Ireland and other EU countries as well as the Gates Foundation and private donors, spends around $5bn annually tackling AIDS, TB and malaria in over 120 countries.

The Health and Child Care ministry and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have painted a grim picture of the deadly malaria outbreak in Zimbabwe.

ABUJA — A bill seeking to establish the National Agency for Malaria Eradication (NAME) has successfully passed its second reading in the Senate. The bill, titled A Bill For an Act to Establish ...