The Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh are in the serious grip of an epidemic suspected to be cerebral malaria. In the past nine months, unofficial figures state that more than 300 people have

malaria research has thrown up yet another factor which determines why the disease varies in its manifestations in different people, from children to adults. Nitric oxide, a toxic gas and an air

A new virus, behaving suspiciously like malaria, has affected more than 5,000 in Haryana, and the local medical community is busy blaming the villagers for it

Thousands of Africans fall prey to malaria every year. But a recent study shows that a Chinese herbal medicine could do wonders for treating cerebral malaria. The medicine called artemether can cure

science continues to astonish. In a reversal of roles, a genetically engineered mosquito

To conquer the growing menace of malaria, a wonder drug is being smuggled into the country, but its effectiveness is still under a cloud

During pregnancy, women lose part of their defences against malaria, thus becoming more susceptible to the disease, but researchers have now found a solution to the problem