Professor Sir Nick White, who has died of cancer aged 74, was an expert on tropical diseases and played a leading role in ...

Scientists are raising the alarm about a drug-resistant strain of malaria that's becoming a growing threat in southeast Asia and could spread to other countries where the parasitic infection is common ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The mosquito is one of the world’s most impactful forces. The breadth of transmissible diseases caused by a ...

Evolving resistance in Southeast Asia is battering current frontline malaria drugs. Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) have been giving way, leading to rising treatment failures. Simultaneously, ...

In the previous blog post, I discussed how China’s efforts to promote its artemisinin-based drugs in the global market have ended up placing their pharmaceutical firms at the lower end of the supply ...

There is an effective treatment against malaria, but it is not accessible to all of the more than 200 million people worldwide who are affected by the disease. Millions, especially in the developing ...

Millions of lives have been saved by the work of the Nobel Prize winning scientist who scoured ancient texts to battle malaria MILLIONS of people around the world who have suffered from malaria owe ...

UPDATE (June 27, 2014): I receive more correspondence on this story than any other! You can find a much more detailed post about artemisinin here. The post is from 2012. If you aren't satisfied by ...

Emerging artemisinin-resistant malaria could bring years of clinical progress to a halt, investigators caution. Artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum parasites are prevalent throughout mainland ...

Nobel Laureate Tu Youyou announced Monday that her team has proposed solutions to the problem of artemisinin resistance, providing new evidence that artemisinin is still "the best weapon" against ...