The nitisinone findings offer an encouraging sign that effective alternatives for controlling mosquito populations may ...

The malaria parasite may be gaining resistance against artemisinin, the drug most often used to try and save children with mosquito-borne malaria.

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

Until now there have been no approved malaria drugs specifically for babies. Instead they have been treated with versions formulated for older children which presents a risk of overdose.

What's more, a group of rheumatologists who use hydroxychloroquine to treat people with rheumatoid arthritis or lupus recently reported that nearly 200 such patients who used the drug have developed ...

ZURICH (Reuters) -Novartis said on Tuesday it had received approval in Switzerland for Coartem Baby, which it said was the first drug to treat malaria in babies and very young children. Eight ...

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.

Can a drug that's used to treat malaria be repurposed to fight cancer? Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have secured a patent for the anti-malarial drug pyronaridine to do just ...

Around 30 million babies are born in areas of malaria risk in Africa every year, with one survey across West Africa reporting infections ranging between 3.4% and 18.4% in infants younger than six ...