Researchers from the Universities of Bath and Leeds (UK) have made a significant advance in the fight against malaria by uncovering a promising new potential target for drug discovery. The findings, ...

Antimalarial drug resistance is a pressing issue in combating the spread of malaria worldwide. In a new study, researchers discovered a key process where malarial parasites take up a human blood cell ...

The global burden of malaria remains significant, with an estimated 241 million cases and 627,000 deaths reported annually. This ongoing crisis calls for ...

Malaria is a major global health problem. The therapeutic options are scarce and challenged by the emergence of resistant parasite strains, which causes a ...

Professor Alan Cowman (WEHI) and Dr David Olsen (MSD). Researchers have developed a new antimalarial drug candidate designed to address the growing challenge of drug resistance and potentially reduce ...

Despite progress toward controlling malaria, it remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in Africa, where 95% of malaria deaths occur according to the World Health Organization ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego analyzed the genomes of hundreds of malaria parasites to determine which genetic variants are most likely to confer drug resistance. The findings, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers on Wednesday reported two promising new approaches to counteract malaria’s growing resistance to medication — one involving a new class of drugs. Switzerland-based Novartis ...

Nigeria currently bears the deadliest burden of malaria globally, accounting for 24% of all international fatalities and a staggering 38% of deaths among children under the age of five, health experts ...

Malaria represents one of the most serious threats to human health worldwide, and preventing and curing this parasitic disease still depends predominantly on the administration of a small number of ...

WHO's approval of the RTS,S/AS01 (Mosquirix) malaria vaccine in 2021 marked a milestone in global public health. It represented not only the first vaccine approved against any parasitic human disease ...