Tag: malaria

The mystery of this Disease X seems to have been solved. Now to develop an approach to handling it.

An unconventional study may help researchers make the most effective malaria vaccine yet.

The CDC is warning of locally acquired cases in Texas and Florida.

The WHO has yet to recommend it, but some countries are already starting to use it.

Mosquitoes revealed something unexpected about the neurons that encode scent.

Its efficacy is around 30%, but even so, it could save many lives.

"This is a historic moment," said WHO chief.

Not the kindest thing to do, probably, but it's still a cool idea.

It's the first vaccine to meet the WHO efficacy goal.

The Food and Drug Administration recently gave the green light for the first new malaria drug in 60 years.

Researchers found a microbe in Kenya that protects mosquitoes against malaria.

The trials show that the drug helps patients with fever, improves lung function and recovery time.

But we now know how to stop it.

Malaria could be eradicated within a generation, a landmark report says.

We need to step up our game, a lengthy report shows.

An aggressive strain of drug-resistant malaria that originated in Cambodia has rapidly spread into neighboring countries.

Habitat destruction and urbanization certainly played a role, but malaria might have dealt the final blow.

Uh-oh.

A genetically modified organism could help mankind eradicate malaria.

The two countries join many others who have recently eliminated malaria from within their borders.

Malaria still kills thousands of children in Africa each year -- but a vaccine might change all that.

Improvise, adapt, eliminate.

This is far from being a final drug, but it's still extremely exciting.

Dogs really have an amazing sense of smell.

Strap your seatbelts, it's creepy time.

Guess what: one more reason to hate mosquitoes.

Sneaky, sneaky plasmodium.

A drug developed in the 1980s to fight parasites can make human blood toxic to mosquitoes when taken in a ...

Not one day too soon!

This looks like a better alternative to wiping out mosquitoes at the population level.

Hundreds of thousands of infants will be vaccinated against the mosquito-carried parasite.

A mosquito with a gene that blocks the malaria parasite has been created in the laboratory, a new research reports.

A lifelong dream may have come true. Half a million deaths every year could be averted thanks to this vaccine.

Believe it or not, there's actual scientific proof backing this advice.

Chemists at the Ohio State University developed a paper strip technology that might save countless lives in rural Africa, and ...

Scientists have in the past toyed with the idea of using a disease to fight cancer. Now, after identifying a ...

Researchers stumbled upon a new tool to fight cancer in a rather unexpected place; while searching for a vaccine against ...

This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is split into three parts, being divided between William C. Campbell and ...

The ability to keep malaria under control is crucial - the disease is highly contagious and the potential health hazards ...

Malaria is one of the most common and dangerous diseases in the world, with the World Health Organization estimating over ...

Reporting in PLOS Medicine, researchers found that for every 1000 children who received the vaccine, 800 malaria cases can be ...

The Anopheles gambiae is the prime transmitter of malaria. A new genetic method manipulates mosquito populations so that only males are ...

Aside from being really cool and enabling wicked video game graphics, 3D imaging is also extremely useful in research, entering ...

It's actually happening Good news - encouraging results from the longest and largest trial of a malaria vaccine could see ...

Some 300 million cases of malaria are reported each year in Africa, the continent where the disease is still running ...

Mosquitoes are not only extremely annoying, but they're some of the most lethal creatures out there, with malaria infecting over ...

Two recently released studies by teams of international researchers sequenced the genomes of two major strains of the parasitic disease ...

It claims the life of a child every 30 seconds and about 40% of the entire world population is at ...