Treatment for Dormant Malaria Shows Promise
http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2013/11/treatment-dormant-malaria-shows-promise
The first new drug in half a century to target malaria parasites in one of their best hideouts is showing encouraging results. The researchers developing the drug, called tafenoquine, said today that data from a recently completed phase II trial were ...
Is the 'Other' Malaria Getting More Dangerous?
http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2013/11/other-malaria-getting-more-dangerous
Two new genetic studies of a parasite that causes malaria suggest that it may be evolving new ways to invade human blood cells. The development could make certain strains of the parasite more dangerous for populations who have some natural immunity.
Malaria drug as effective in low doses
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/268852.php
A new study finds that lower doses of the drug primaquine are as effective at preventing transmission of malaria as standard doses. Primaquine targets the transmission stages of the malaria parasite, the gametocytes, and is considered an important tool ...
WHO Unveils New Malaria 'Roadmap'
http://www.voanews.com/content/malaria-roadmap-14nov13/1790117.html
Malaria infects hundreds of millions of people every year and causes well over a half million deaths. The World Health Organization and its partners Thursday announced a new goal to license vaccines by 2030 that would sharply reduce malaria cases and ...
Low-dose treatment may block malaria transmission
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/lowdose-treatment-may-block-malaria-transmission/1195709/
Lower doses of an antimalarial drug are as effective as higher doses in reducing malaria transmission, according to a new study. Primaquine is one of the few antimalarial drugs that targets the transmission stages of the malaria parasite, the ...
Malaria: A race against resistance
http://www.nature.com/news/malaria-a-race-against-resistance-1.14155
The effort is part of a broad campaign to prevent malaria by providing African children with drugs usually used to treat the disease. Nearly 1.2 million healthy children from parts of Mali, Togo, Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal received these drugs ...
Drug resistant malaria spreads in Southeast Asia, could go global
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/11/drug-resistant-malaria-spreads-in-southeast-asia-could-go-global.html
WASHINGTON -- U.S. experts are raising the alarm over the spread of drug-resistant malaria in several Southeast Asian countries, endangering major global gains in fighting the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than 600,000 people annually. While ...
Annals of the Malaria War: Legions of Health Workers Launch an Attack
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/11/14/annals-of-the-malaria-war-legions-of-health-workers-launch-an-attack/
They refused to hand out malaria medicines as dozens of children and mothers awaited the drugs just outside the concrete walls. The men in the group spoke in a Bambara dialect to Louka Coulibaly, a Malian medical supervisor hired by Doctors without ...
