Malaria

Lasers, parasites and other methods could help prevent a disease that afflicts hundreds of millions of people

Intellectual Ventures builds computer simulations to better understand how malaria spreads and how it responds to eradication efforts

While climate change may increase the occurrence of malaria, the effect can be almost completely offset by adopting control strategies

Experts question claims that malaria and osteonecrosis contributed to Pharaoh's decline.

New insight into the fragile pharaoh's family tree shows intrafamilial marriage, and royal lives cursed by malarial infections and bodily defects

From satellites to bacteria, researchers are searching high and low for the best tools to eradicate malaria

Scientists are creating transgenic mosquitoes with reduced ability to carry the devastating diseases that have plagued much of humanity. But will these modifications also generate more virulent infections?

August 20th is World Mosquito Day, an effort to remind the public about the continuing threat of malaria and other diseases transmitted by mosquitoes. Steve Mirsky reports

New data indicates that Homo sapiens picked up the malaria parasite from chimpanzees

The best price for getting anti-mosquito bed nets to the poor proves to be "free"

DDT should be used "with caution" in combating malaria, a panel of scientists reported today

At AAAS, a researcher describes how treating more people for the mosquito-borne parasite could lead to more resistance to drugs