HealthDay News — A new malaria treatment has been approved for newborns and infants under 11 pounds, filling a major gap in care for some of the most vulnerable children. The medicine, called Coartem ...

Brazilian researchers have discovered chemical compounds in marine sponges that have the potential to eliminate the malaria ...

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

How malaria parasites exploit mechanism for escaping elimination could provide novel strategies targeting chronic malaria infections.

Previously, it was assumed that Plasmodium falciparum—the deadliest malaria parasite—was largely uniform across Africa. However, new studies indicate that distinct genetic strains exist in different ...

Under a magnification of 1,125x, this photomicrograph of a blood specimen revealed the presence of intraerythrocytic Plasmodium falciparum ring-form trophozoites. Note the erythrocyte in the ...

Diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum malaria using rapid diagnostic tests and treatment with artemisinin derivatives, the main component of the malaria treatments recommended by the World Health ...

Diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum malaria using rapid diagnostic tests and treatment with artemisinin derivatives, the main component of the malaria treatments recommended by the World Health ...

For more than 15 years, treatment for malaria episodes (which alternate between fever, shivering and chills, and severe sweating) caused by Plasmodium falciparum in Sub-Saharan Africa has been ...

Partial resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to the artemisinin component of artemisinin-based combination therapies, the most important malaria drugs, emerged in Southeast Asia and now threatens Ea ...

The new case involves the parasite Plasmodium falciparum, which can cause more severe illness than the strain in the Florida and Texas cases, P. vivax.