New research on avian malaria, which has decimated Hawaii's beloved birds, explains how non-native birds play a key role in ...

In 2007, molecular biologist Thierry Diagana, head of global health biomedical research at Novartis, and his colleagues were searching for fresh drugs against malaria, medicines that the parasites had ...

The study found that 63 out of 64 sites across the islands had avian malaria, including areas with diverse bird communities.

This year, Mombo-Ngoma led a trial of a new single-dose treatment containing four different drugs, called SPAP, that each attack the parasite from a different angle. The team reported in November that ...

Avian malaria is spreading across Hawaiʻi in a way scientists didn’t fully grasp until now: nearly every forest bird species can help keep the disease alive. Researchers found the parasite at 63 of 64 ...

Every year, malaria kills more than 600,000 people worldwide. Most of them are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. But the disease isn’t confined to poor, rural areas – it’s a global threat that ...

Advances in vaccine technology, antibody therapies, and genetic surveillance are giving researchers new tools to fight ...

A researcher holds a Hawaiian forest bird during a project to study the transmission of avian malaria in the wild. PC: Christa Seidl and Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project. Nearly ...

Bill Steiger, who served in the George W. Bush and first Trump administrations, reflects on the past year's changes in the ...

An international study investigating the genomic diversity of the Sudanese population reveals that the Copts originating in ...

By Jennifer Rigby and Emmanuel Bruce LONDON/ACCRA, Jan 29 (Reuters) - New vaccines are helping Ghana approach a long-sought ...

The number of reported malaria cases in Mpumalanga appears to be on the decline again, after the province saw a spike in the wake of the recent floods.