(May 11) — How malaria parasites evolved to evade a major antimalarial drug has long been thought to involve only one key gene. Now, thanks to a combination of field and lab studies, an international ...

A team of U.S. and African medical researchers has developed a molecular marker that can be used to diagnose individuals with and survey populations for malaria parasites that are resistant to the ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In June 2017, Betty Balikagala traveled to a hospital in Gulu District, in northern Uganda. It was the rainy season: a peak time for malaria transmission.

Sir: In the not-so-distant past, diseases like pneumonia, diarrhoea, and sexually transmitted infections were kept in check by readily available treatments. However, a concerning trend is now emerging ...