Intracranial hypertension—increased blood pressure inside the head—can predict a child's risk of death from malaria. A study published on December 4th in PLOS Pathogens reports that accumulation of white blood cells impairs ...
Dec 4, 2014
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Melanesian children have lower fatality rates due to severe malaria than children in other geographic regions, according to UWA researchers.
Apr 21, 2014
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An excessive response of the immune system to malarial infection can lead to serious complications, such as cerebral malaria. While the mechanism causing the onset of cerebral malaria is unclear, immunologists think that ...
Jan 16, 2013
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Researchers have discovered that adding lovastatin, a widely used cholesterol-lowering drug, to traditional antimalarial treatment decreases neuroinflammation and protects against cognitive impairment in a mouse model of ...
Dec 27, 2012
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A potentially new way of treating cerebral malaria has been discovered by scientists at the Universities of Manchester and Glasgow, in a study using mice.
Jun 26, 2018
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Boosting a protective protein to stabilize blood vessels weakened by malaria showed improved survival beyond that of antimalarial drugs alone in pre-clinical research.
Sep 29, 2016
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By studying malaria in mice, three A*STAR researchers have discovered how malaria parasites in the bloodstream can affect the brain, causing a life-threatening condition called cerebral malaria.
May 6, 2016
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A Michigan State University researcher is challenging a widely held African belief that a spinal tap, a procedure safely used to treat other diseases, could suck the brain from the base of the skull and cause death in malaria ...
Oct 28, 2016
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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health found evidence that specific immune cells may play a key role in the devastating effects of cerebral malaria, a severe form of malaria that mainly affects young children. The ...
Feb 18, 2020
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Scientists have shown for the first time that cerebral malaria causes death in adults by triggering oxygen-deprivation in the brain, in new research published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Dec 16, 2020
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