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World Malaria Day: It's possible to eradicate it, but challenges remain say experts
India's vision to be malaria-free by 2027 and to eliminate the disease by 2030 is absolutely possib…
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Elon Musk once caught malaria on safari and was 'hours from death,' book says
Walter Isaacson's new biography of Elon Musk gives more insight into why the Tesla and SpaceX billi…
Polly Thompson,Grace Dean
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A woman volunteered to get bitten by hundreds of mosquitoes to help create a new malaria vaccine. Then she got malaria.
A woman took home $4,200 and hundreds of mosquito bites for participating in a malaria vaccine tria…
Hilary Brueck
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DGCI allows Serum Institute to export malaria vaccine to UK
The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has granted permission to send two lakh doses of th…
PTI
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Photo Essay: As we celebrate the first malaria vaccine, remembering the epidemic's staggering toll
Photographer Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi documented the malaria epidemic's toll during one of the worst …
Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi
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Dr. Oz owns stock in companies that supply hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug he pushed the White House to use as unproven COVID treatment
Dr. Oz emailed the White House pushing the anti-malaria drug before trials were completed. Numerous…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Ebola makes a comeback in the Republic of Congo — which is already fighting the coronavirus and the world's largest outbreak of measles
The Ebola virus resurgence has been reported in the Wangata health…
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Emails show Mehmet Oz pushed Jared Kushner and the White House to use an anti-malaria drug as a Covid treatment, which the WHO later strongly recommended against
"We cannot hide behind study protocols if we are not allowed to proceed," Dr. Mehmet Oz wrote in hi…
Matthew Loh
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In all the noise around COVID-19 — the risks from malaria, dengue and chikungunya are ignored
Vector-borne diseases like malaria, dengue and chikungunya aren’t cheap for India. They carry a soc…
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World Homeopathy Day: Here are a few popular myths about Homeopathy
Today millions of people around the world use homeopathy while hundreds of thousands of practit…
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I traveled to every country in the world without flying and survived on a $20 daily budget for 10 years. It was a nightmare.
Thor Pedersen returned home to Denmark for the first time in 10 years after traveling the world on …
Jordan Hart
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When Pichai waited for two full days to get a response to an e-mail from his dad
As Google celebrates its 25th birthday this month, its CEO Sundar Pichai has reminisced about how t…
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Taking anti-malaria drug for protection against virus, says Trump
Hydroxychloroquine sulfate was first synthesised in 1946 and is in a class of medications historic…
PTI
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Researchers just retracted a massive study on whether a common malaria pill can help treat coronavirus
Scientists had questioned the data used in the study, and researcher said they could "no longer vou…
Lydia Ramsey
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The first high-quality study of malaria pill hydroxychloroquine just found it doesn't help prevent coronavirus infections
Hydroxychloroquine didn't reduce the risk of infection in people exposed to coronavirus. President …
Andrew Dunn
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Global leaders are preparing for the next pandemic with commitments to a proposed new fund for prevention and response
Countries around the world were not prepared for the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, bu…
Julia Hood
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Safeguarding Yourself From Ebola If You Are Travelling to Affected Areas
Ebola is a fast-acting virus, which first reared its head in 1976. The infection is transmitted thr…
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Editors warn that 'serious scientific questions' have been raised about a massive study of whether a common malaria pill can help treat coronavirus
The massive study of 96,032 hospitalized coronavirus patients found that hydroxychloroquine did not…
Lydia Ramsey
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Could a malaria pill from the 1940s treat the coronavirus? Early results for chloroquine have caught the eyes of doctors, analysts - and even Elon Musk
Steven Seedhouse, a biotech analyst at Raymond James, sees chloroquine as just as promising as any …
Andrew Dunn
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Bill and Melinda Gates are giving $4 million to help scientists engineer a malaria-killing mosquito - here's how it could work
Other strains of the "Friendly" mosquitoes have been deployed in the past to help kill off Aedes ae…