The new WHO guidance strengthens the fight against Plasmodium vivax malaria by combining safer radical cure medicines with routine G6PD testing to prevent dangerous side effects. By clearing both ...

U.S. regulators Friday approved a simpler, one-dose treatment to prevent relapses of malaria. Standard treatment now takes two weeks and studies show many patients don’t finish taking every dose.

One thing worse than coming down with Malaria fever is not getting proper treatment for it. Maybe you’ve been there: trying one prescription after another, battling Malaria symptoms that seem to ...

Understanding how the human immune system fights Plasmodium vivax paves the way for the first effective vaccine against it.

A new antimalarial drug is being introduced at a dose that is too low to be effective for all patients who need it, according to a report published today in eLife. The study suggests that the current ...

A breakthrough in monkey malaria research could help scientists diagnose and treat a relapsing form of human malaria. A breakthrough in monkey malaria research by two University of Otago scientists ...

Not since 1640, when extracts of “Jesuits’ bark” (cinchona) from Peru first gave Europeans the benefits of quinine for their “ague,” has there been such good news for the world’s malaria victims, who ...

U.S. regulators Friday approved a simpler, one-dose treatment to prevent relapses of malaria. Standard treatment now takes two weeks and studies show many patients don't finish taking every dose.