Cerebral malaria, or malaria of the brain, means being deeply unconscious with perpetual cycles of seizures and spasms. It can cause death, or often disability. About 600,000 people suffer this terrible…
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Malaria hits rural dwellers in poor countries the hardest. Those bitten by the wrong mosquito often do not know for many days that they have contracted malaria. Some have little or no access to doctors…
About half of the world’s population are at risk of contracting malaria. In 2011, there were 26m reported cases and more…
Global health campaigner Bill Gates is in Sydney today to lobby prime minister Julia Gillard to spend more money on global health, particularly the fight against malaria and polio. But while money may…
Researchers at the University of Melbourne have uncovered the malaria parasite’s ability to communicate with other malaria…
In Malaysia, disgruntlement and promise of change tends to result in the retention of the status quo. Enthusiastic reformers (pretenders or otherwise) are noisier rather than effective. Voters, at the…
Immature malaria parasites are 100 times less sensitive to artemisinin-based drugs than older parasites, a new study has…
A new class of antimalarial drug has been discovered, using spiroindolones to block a pump within the malaria parasites face…
New Australian research has, for the first time, shown exactly how blood cells called platelets kill the parasite that causes…
Changing a patient’s diet could reduce the side-effects resulting from quinine treatment for malaria. A new study has found…
Scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of the malaria-causing parasite, plasmodium vivax. The parasite shows the…
A new drug compound has successfully cured malaria in mice models, according to University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers…
Researchers have developed a technique which determines the risk of infants in endemic countries developing clinical malaria…
A new anti-inflammatory drug that prevents the immune system from causing irrevocable brain and tissue damage could help…
Infant malaria infections can be cut by up to 30% when anti-malarial drugs are given intermittently over a 12-month period…
Special “scaffold” proteins are responsible for the malaria parasite’s transformation into a banana shape before sexual reproduction…
More than 1.2 million people died from malaria worldwide in 2010 – twice the number found in the most recent comprehensive…
Mosquito-borne diseases remain one of the greatest global threats to human health. Genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes hold great potential to reduce the burden of disease but as research moves from the…
The great burden of death and disease caused by the malaria parasite often goes unnoticed in the developed world. But it’s the leading cause of death in children under five years old in many sub-Sahara…
New research has found that the number of malaria cases in the East African highlands has dropped dramatically, despite a…
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