Scientists are raising the alarm about a drug-resistant strain of malaria that's becoming a growing threat in southeast Asia and could spread to other countries where the parasitic infection is common ...

High rates of the most effective type of malaria-fighting drugs sold in three African countries are poor quality — including nearly half the pills sampled in Senegal — raising fears of increased drug ...

Exposure to suboptimal doses of the antiparasitic drug artemisinin could increase the sexual conversion rate of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, thereby increasing the probability of ...

Evolving resistance in Southeast Asia is battering current frontline malaria drugs. Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) have been giving way, leading to rising treatment failures. Simultaneously, ...

HONG KONG — A study by scientists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has identified more than 100 proteins that are actively targeted by artemisinin in the malarial parasite Plasmodium ...

ONE of the most valuable weapons in the war on malaria is artemisinin, a drug derived from the leaves of sweet wormwood. Its discovery, inspired by wormwood’s use as a herbal remedy for the disease, ...

This article originally appeared in New Scientist. Malaria medicines that are too weak or downright fake are harming people’s health and could aggravate drug resistance, says epidemiologist Paul ...

The World Health Organization called on 17 pharmaceutical companies yesterday to stop selling the miracle drug artemisinin as a stand-alone therapy for malaria, saying the practice could leave the ...

In 2012, this mother carried her 5-year-old son to a malaria clinic in Thailand from Myanmar. Two new studies find that multidrug-resistant parasites are rendering front-line malaria drugs ineffective ...

Resistance to frontline artemisinins and partner drugs is now causing the failure of artemisinin-based combination therapies against Plasmodium falciparum in southeast Asia. Triple artemisinin-based ...