New landmark research has successfully mapped 37,000 years of infectious disease across ancient human populations.

Switzerland’s medical products authority has granted the first approval for a malaria medicine designed for small infants ...

The pharmaceutical industry is criticizing the Trump administration’s plan for carrying out a critical round of Medicare drug ...

The Kadjebi District Health Directorate in the Oti Region, has set a goal to administer Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) drugs to 17,129 children during the first round of the campaign, which ...

Malaria cases in the Asia Pacific region have surged in the last few years, reaching 4.8 million in 2024 and putting the region further off track to reaching its elimination goal by 2030, a summit ...

The US has long been the largest donor to global efforts to combat malaria. Aid workers say that Trump administration cuts to foreign aid will lead to more deaths from the disease.

Malaria and malnutrition are closely linked, creating a cycle that exacerbates both conditions. Malaria can lead to malnutrition by causing loss of appetite, increasing metabolic demands, and ...

Giovanni Battista Grassi made significant contributions by linking human malaria to the female Anopheles mosquito in 1898. By 1898, the complete transmission cycle of malaria was scientifically ...

The parasite that causes malaria requires precise control of gene expression to progress through the various stages of its complex life cycle. A new study, by a multinational team of researchers ...

More young children are being given seasonal malaria prevention treatments. In 2023, an average of 53 million children were treated per cycle, up from 170,000 in 2012.