New target for anti-malaria drugs
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Researchers say targeting a protein may overcome the malaria parasite's increasing resistance to drugs.
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An experimental vaccine can slash the risk that children will get malaria, apparently offering the first effective way to inoculate youngsters against one of the world&#39;s biggest
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A new addition to an already successful drug promises good results for investors.
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A new type of antibiotic has been shown in laboratory tests to powerfully attack and control tuberculosis. Some experts believe R207910 could become the first new drug in 40 years to effectively combat the killer disease.
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The first effective malaria vaccine promises to save millions of lives. Scientists were jubilant last Thursday when results of the trial involving children between one and four years in southern Mozambique
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In a major medical breakthrough, researchers in the United Kingdom and United States have discovered why the malaria parasite (Plasmodium falciparum) has become resistant to chloroquine, one of the most ...
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New developments are brewing at the pharmaceutical.
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A new computational technique could predict the toxicity of drug candidates.
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A new investigation offers a model for attacking what has become a flood of fake drugs, which threaten to undermine the global fight against malaria.
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UK and Kenyan researchers say they are creating a global map to pinpoint areas where malaria is most likely to strike.
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Targeting a key protein may help overcome the malaria parasite's increasing resistance to existing drugs, UK researchers say.
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After more than two decades of research, scientists said Thursday that they had found the first effective vaccine against malaria.
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British and Kenyan scientists have developed a new treatment for the killer disease malaria.
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A new antibiotic could prove to be an important weapon in the fight against tuberculosis, scientists predict. Known as R207910, the new drug has been tested in mice and has been proven safe in human volunteers.
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After 50 years of failure, a vaccine against malaria could be in sight, raising hopes of slashing the death toll from a disease that kills more than a million people, mostly babies and pregnant women, every year.
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Human trials are now beginning on a compound that promises to be the first new tuberculosis drug in four decades, one that has been shown in animal experiments to clear TB infections twice as fast as existing medications.
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Scientists develop a synthetic version of a herb-based drug to treat malaria.