Malaria

The parasite that causes malaria is becoming immune to artemisinin, the most effective drug. Pinpointing the resistance genes could offer a way to beat back the disease

After decades of working on health problems in Haiti and other poor countries, Paul Farmer suggests equity is the best way to better health. Katherine Harmon reports

Scientists inch closer to a vaccine against the mosquito-borne Plasmodium falciparum, the world's most lethal parasite

Trial results are promising, but marred by poor efficacy against severe forms of the disease.

The novel approach, as well as a vaccine made from live parasites, offers new hope in the battle against malaria

A patriotic appeal to fight against a common scourge in 1861: malaria

Growing resistance is threatening global malaria-control efforts.

Researchers are learning much more about how Anopheles gambiae, the primary malaria mosquito, uses its smell organs to find human targets; the work involved stunning images from scanning electron microscopes

In East Africa warming as a result of climate change is paving the way for the spread of malaria

A parasite's genome is yielding clues to how malaria kills

An annotated list of online malaria resources

Scientists had previously suspected that the most common human malaria parasite split from a chimpanzee version millions of years ago. New genetic analysis of primate droppings points to a more recent cross-species transmission event from gorillas