An alarming number of malaria patients are exhibiting a rise in resistance to artemisinin, currently the drug of choice in the treatment of malaria, which has prompted health professionals to fear ...

CLEVELAND - Researchers at Case Western Reserve University developed techniques to quickly identify evolution of drug resistance in strains of malaria. Their goal is to enable the medical community to ...

July 30 -- WEDNESDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- Malaria parasites in western Cambodia have become resistant to artemisinin-based drugs, a development that could put millions of lives at risk, ...

The first new malaria treatment in decades holds promise against rising drug resistance after Swiss drugmaker Novartis announced it was as effective at treating the disease as established treatments.

NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers on Wednesday reported two promising new approaches to counteract malaria’s growing resistance to medication — one involving a new class of drugs. Switzerland-based Novartis ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and in Australia have shown that a drug currently in testing shows potential to cure malaria in a single dose and offers promise as a preventive treatment ...

Promising results from a new malaria drug offer hope against emerging drug resistance in Africa. In a clinical trial, ganaplacide–lumefantrine (GanLum) cured 97.4% of participants, outperforming an ...

A phase 3 trial of Novartis’ next-generation malaria treatment has met its primary endpoint, positioning the drugmaker to seek approval of a therapy with the potential to kill drug-resistant parasites ...

Malaria leads to nearly 600,000 deaths annually, but that figure was closer to 2 million a quarter century ago. Deaths spiked because the parasite that causes malaria developed resistance to drugs ...

The federal government has launched a national initiative to protect the effectiveness of malaria treatments and prevent the emergence of drug resistance that could undermine decades of public health ...

GENEVA, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Drug-resistant malaria could spread from southeast Asia to Africa within months, putting millions of children's lives at risk, a leading expert warned on Wednesday. Nicholas ...