Malaria kills a child every minute. While medical researchers have successfully developed effective drugs to kill the malaria parasite, efforts to treat the effects of the disease have not been as ...

On the day of World Malaria Day, as we raise awareness on the dangers posed by this mosquito-borne disease, let's delve a bit deeper into how malaria is different from the other mosquito-borne ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. LUKUTU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Bamongo Godefroid lay in a ...

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. An unusual series of small U.S. malaria outbreaks – attributed to mosquito bites occurring in Florida, Maryland ...

A team at Portland State University is leading research on a new drug showing promise to treat one of the deadliest diseases ...

BASANKUSU, Congo (AP) — Hundreds of people have tested positive for malaria in northwest Congo as health officials try to understand what may be behind a surge of illnesses that has surpassed 1,000 ...

Researchers have identified a type of chemical compound that, when applied to insecticide-treated bed nets, appears to kill the malaria-causing parasite in mosquitoes. Published today in the journal ...

An increase of just 0.03% in illegal gold mining is associated with a 20 to 46% increase in the local incidence of malaria in Yanomami lands in the Brazilian Amazon.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BASANKUSU, Congo (AP) — Hundreds of people ...