Results of two parallel studies show that 1 in 4 African children hospitalized with malaria and coma have an additional infection, and that giving antibiotics with antimalarials could help reduce death rates of comatose children.
Apr 23, 2025
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China's success in achieving malaria-free status in 2021 offers crucial lessons for the global malaria fight, say experts in a special collection of articles published by The BMJ.
Apr 22, 2025
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Antimalarial drug resistance is a pressing issue in combating the spread of malaria worldwide. In a new study, researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have discovered a key process where malarial parasites ...
Mar 5, 2025
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The malaria parasite is still killing almost half a million people every year. A project has now identified a gene that holds out the prospect of a safe, effective live vaccine. The study is published in PLOS One.
Feb 28, 2025
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Hundreds of people have tested positive for malaria in northwest Congo as health officials try to understand what may be behind a surge of illnesses that has surpassed 1,000 cases and killed at least 60 people.
Feb 28, 2025
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A new clinical trial from Scripps Research in La Jolla aims to make significant gains in the global fight against malaria by making a drug that has been around since the 1970s last longer.
Feb 25, 2025
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A team of researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi has uncovered how genetic and lifestyle factors influence immune responses to malaria in children from two large West African ethnic groups. The study found that children from the Fulani ...
Feb 19, 2025
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Cambodian scientist Yeang Chheang has spent six decades fighting malaria—even in the Khmer Rouge labor camp where his wife and baby died—and stands tantalizingly close to fulfilling his life's work.
Feb 14, 2025
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Indiana University School of Medicine researchers and their collaborators in Uganda at the Makerere University School of Medicine have uncovered a significant connection between elevated uric acid levels and life-threatening ...
Jan 27, 2025
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Nearly 10 million malaria vaccine doses were delivered to Africa during the first year of routine immunization being rolled out across the continent, the Gavi vaccine alliance said Wednesday.
Jan 22, 2025
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