Former president Bill Clinton and Microsoft founder Bill Gates called Wednesday on US lawmakers to boost foreign aid to fight diseases like HIV/AIDS ...
The World Health Organisation unveiled Tuesday landmark new measures to counter the misuse of anti-malaria drugs, which is threatening attempts to stifle some ...
PAILIN, Cambodia (Reuters) - In a dusty village near the Thai-Cambodia border, 24-year-old Oeur Samoeun sits on a dark green hammock recovering from a strain of malaria that has resisted the most powerful drugs available. Ravaged by days of fever and chills, ...
Malawi's campaign to fight malaria by providing free or cheap mosquito nets has failed to curb the number of deaths caused by the disease, a deputy health minister said Friday. Up to 7,000 Malawians died of malaria in 2009, with 4.5 million ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Health experts watching for signs of a malaria outbreak have noticed several cases of the mosquito-borne disease among people traveling back from Haiti, where an earthquake in January killed as many as 300,000 people. So far, 11 laboratory-confirmed cases ...
Hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in makeshift shelters and thousands of aid workers providing relief since a powerful quake rocked the country in January are now threatened by malaria, a US report said Thursday. "Displaced persons living outdoors or in temporary ...
GlaxoSmithKline offers outside scientists labs, data to fight malaria, other tropical diseasesDrugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said Wednesday it will open up its research cupboards and labs to outside scientists in an unusual effort to trigger more research on malaria and other neglected tropical diseases. ...
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc hopes to seek approval by 2012 for its experimental malaria vaccine and said on Wednesday it would seek only a small profit and ensure it is widely available in hard-hit countries.Chief Executive Andrew Witty also said ...
