Until recently, a major gap in malaria treatment was how to care for newborns and infants infected with malaria who weren’t ...

Malaria parasites, which kill nearly 600,000 people a year, mostly children, are spread when female mosquitos sucking blood from a human body.

The mosquito-borne illness is the deadliest disease in Africa, whose 1.5 billion people accounted for 95% of an estimated 597,000 malaria deaths worldwide in 2023, according to WHO.

The development of the new malaria medicine from the Basel-based pharmaceutical company Novartis for babies weighing 4½ to 11 pounds has given hope to many, with health workers in Nigeria, Congo and ...

The search for new ways to treat malaria—a disease that kills some 600,000 people a year, most of them children in Sub-Saharan Africa—may have just gotten a boost.

In 2023, the WHO African Region was home to 94% of malaria cases (246 million) and 95% (569,000) of malaria deaths. Children under 5 accounted for about 76% of all malaria deaths in the region.

A new generation of malaria drugs failed clinical trials, in part because they were hard to swallow. UCSF chemists remodeled ...

Health officials in New Jersey are investigating a case of malaria, the potentially deadly mosquito-transmitted disease, in a ...

Switzerland's medical products authority has granted the first approval for a malaria medicine designed for small infants, touted as an advance against a disease that takes hundreds of thousands ...