Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Malaria treatment could improve in children

An analysis of patients from across the malaria endemic world suggests that a key antimalarial treatment could be improved by better dosing in young children.

Medical research

New drug puts malaria under the pump

Researchers have discovered how a new class of antimalarial drugs kills the malaria parasite, showing that the drugs block a pump at the parasite surface, causing it to fill with salt.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Combination drug treatment can cut malaria by 30 percent

Malaria infections among infants can be cut by up to 30 per cent when antimalarial drugs are given intermittently over a 12 month period, a three-year clinical trial in Papua New Guinea has shown.

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