Genetics

A quick path to antimalarial resistance

Resistance to antimalarial drugs is thought to result mainly from changes in the parasite's genome. However, P. falciparum can also develop resistance to some antimalarial compounds by epigenetic changes, according to a new ...

Medications

Fake malaria drugs not as common as previously reported

A rigorous analysis of antimalarial drug quality conducted in Cambodia and Tanzania found no evidence of fake medicines, according to new research published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

US regulator approves limited use of malaria drugs for virus

A limited emergency-use authorization for two antimalarial drugs touted as game-changers by President Donald Trump has been issued by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat coronavirus patients.

Medications

New strategies reduce treatment failure in malaria by up to 81%

Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are the globally-accepted first-line treatments for malaria—a mosquito-borne disease caused by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite that annually kills around 600,000 people, ...

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