A Guide to Malaria
Take stock on April 25, World Malaria Day: The international community has just two years to meet the United Nations's 2010 goal of providing protection and treatment to every person threatened by malaria. Can it be done?
Lending a Helping Arm: Volunteers Risk Malaria to Test Vaccine
Volunteers in Seattle chance getting the disease in a bid to defeat it
Money for cheaper herb-based malaria meds
A subsidy program intended to drive down the cost of lifesaving malaria drugs called artemisinin-based combination therapies—now considered the most effective treatment against the parasitic disease—was unveiled today in Norway...
Self-Experimenters: Malaria Vaccine Maven Baits Irradiated Mosquitoes with His Own Arm
Stephen Hoffman has given years of sweat—and lots of blood—on his quest to stop a global killer
A 'Flower' That Delivers Disease-Killing Treatments to Mosquitoes
In development: an artificial flower that kills pathogens in disease-carrying mosquitoes but spares the bugs
Malaria: Jumping to a Solution
A species of jumping spider loves to feed on the specific type of mosquitoes that spread malaria
Successful Malaria Vaccine Also Proves Effective in Infants
New data shows that the RTS,S vaccine is safe and effective in infants
2008 Gadget Guide: 11 Socially Responsible Inventions to Save the World
Devices to pump and filter water, protect against disease-carrying insects, and more
Fight Malaria by Helping Mosquitoes
Johns Hopkins researchers are trying to stop malaria's spread by keeping mosquitoes from becoming infected with the parasite that they pass on to humans. Cynthia Graber reports
Fighting Malaria Mosquitoes with Mosquitoes
If transgenic mosquitoes immune to malaria could outcompete and replace regular mosquitoes, they could help keep people free of the disease
Net Benefits: Bed Netting, Drugs Stem Malaria Deaths
Proactive African countries see fewer children felled by the mosquito-borne disease
Is the U.N. Deadline on Curing Malaria Wishful Thinking?
The challenge of controlling the disease in Africa by 2010 is fundamentally organizational, not technical
