Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. LUKUTU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Bamongo Godefroid lay in a ...

LONDON (AP) — Malaria likely killed many more people than usual in the West African nation of Guinea during last year’s Ebola outbreak, a new study suggests, as tens of thousands with potential signs ...

SEATTLE — Local health officials are still investigating how a Pierce County woman who hadn’t traveled recently might have contracted malaria — but however it happened, the situation involved an ...

Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that affects hundreds of millions of people each year, resulting in over 400,000 deaths ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Mosquitos infect up to 263 million people yearly with malaria and efforts to reduce their populations have stalled as late. That's because ...

MIGORI, Kenya (AP) — As the coffin bearing the body of Rosebella Awuor was lowered into the grave, heart-wrenching sobs from mourners filled the air. Her sister Winnie Akinyi, the guardian to Awuor’s ...

Devices made with cheap strips of paper have outperformed two other testing methods in detecting malaria infection in asymptomatic people in Ghana—a diagnostic advance that could accelerate efforts to ...

Malaria mosquitoes prefer to feed -- and feed more -- on blood from people infected with malaria. Researchers from Stockholm University, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and KTH Royal ...

A team of scientists, including researchers at UC San Diego, have developed a gene-editing method to block mosquitoes from spreading malaria, it was announced Wednesday. Biologists Zhiqian Li and ...

After going to the hospital, doctors told Anderson's wife that 'if [she] brought him a few hours later, he literally would have died' Chris Unger/Getty New England Patriots player Calvin Anderson is ...

Scientists say they have new experimental evidence of a novel role for bilirubin, a natural yellow pigment found in the body, in protecting humans from the worst effects of malaria and potentially ...