Despite advances in malaria treatments over the past few decades, the disease still kills around half a million people globally every year. Finding a better way to diagnose the illness, and ...

Amplino may be the ultimate garage project. Three DIY bio-hackers have created a mobile malaria testing kit they claim can identify different strains of malaria with higher accuracy, and at lower ...

An international study published in the Malaria Journal claims that a widely used test for detecting malaria is delivering too many inaccurate false-negative results and is “not fit for purpose”. The ...

New Haven, Conn. — Almost half of the world’s population is at risk of malaria infection, with children and pregnant women at the highest risk of getting sick and dying from the disease. Current ...

In western Kenya, a community-based intervention that included free malaria testing and discounts on artemisinin-based combination therapies for patients who tested positive increased the proportion ...

Malaria continues to place a substantial burden on many emerging economies, contributing to significant loss of life, ...

Using malaria rapid diagnostic tests in registered drug shops in a highly endemic region in Uganda substantially reduced overdiagnosis of malaria, improving the use of valuable malaria drugs, ...

Scientists report a new way to test vaccines that may be as rigorous and stringent as exposure to field strains of malaria. Malaria is the deadliest mosquito-borne parasitic infection of humans. In ...

A multi-disciplinary research collaboration created a field-applicable, ultrasensitive diagnostic assay that specifically detects DNA sequences from all Plasmodium species in symptomatic and ...

Rhoel David Ramos Dinglasan PhD MPH collaborates closely with ERADA Technology Alliance, Ltd. One of the main factors enabling the continued transmission of malaria are individuals who are free from ...

…Nigeria Accounts for 27% of Global Malaria Cases, FCT Contributes 5% The Federal Capital Territory (FCTA) Administration through it’s Health Services and Environment Secretariat has flagged off the ...

Despite the vaccine’s drawbacks, the W.H.O. endorsed testing on 360,000 children, in an effort to lower death rates in Africa. By Donald G. McNeil Jr. With malaria deaths rebounding worldwide, a pilot ...