Filed under: Health We all know, but we rarely say it out loud. Mosquitos are bastards. And that’s just talking about how annoying they can be in our own part of...

Doctors and climatologists have recognized that the world is facing a global health crisis. A group of experts have recently warned that the warming of planet Earth is...

Malaria is a fatal disease, especially when the type is not detected. Many people lose their lives in the African region owing to the same problem. A group of...

On the eve of World Malaria Day, the head of UNICEF says there is enough money available to provide bed nets treated with long-lasting insecticide to everyone in Africa...

President Barack Obama is committed to making the United States a global leader in ending the nearly 1 million deaths annually from malaria by 2015, the U.S. ambassador...

A novel immune cell may offer an important new clue to why malaria kills some people and not others.

A $225 million fund to provide low-price anti-malaria medicine around the world was launched in the Norwegian capital Friday to fight a disease that kills 2,000...

Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis is launching a new cherry-flavored malaria drug that it says children will be less likely to spit out.

Bill Gates set a conference abuzz when he opened a jar of mosquitoes onstage to make a point about malaria prevention.

Cellphone hacking is nothing new but this hack for medical purposes is simply imposing. Scientists at the UCLA have transformed a Sony Ericsson phone into a blood...

By Brenda Zulu Malaria Research Institute at Macha Mission Hospital has been able to facilitate access to the world’s medical knowledge and locally-relevant content...

Researchers reported promising results for what may become the world’s first vaccine to prevent malaria, a killer of 1 million people each year.

Researchers are reporting promising results for what may become the world’s first malaria vaccine.

Federal regulators said Monday a combination drug from Novartis to treat malaria works better than older drugs already on the market.

Researchers trying to create the world’s first malaria vaccine are launching a massive medical trial as early as next month involving 16,000 children that could...

A medical trial involving 16,000 children across Africa will be a challenge to human, scientific and communications resources on the world’s poorest continent,...

Malaria as a mass child killer would be virtually eliminated globally by 2015 under a plan backed by nearly $3 billion in pledges, officials said Thursday.

The World Health Organization halved its estimate of the number of people who get malaria each year, saying Thursday that better measurement techniques had cut the...

Researchers are working to imitate the genetic mechanism of the common flour beetle in malaria resistant mosquitoes which might help in fighting the incapacitating...