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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spread largely by mosquitos, Malaria causes a fever, headaches, confusion and muscle pains among other symptoms and can be fatal.

Dengue and malaria cases have been recorded in Ludhiana. Here is how each of these vector-borne diseases exhibits symptoms and why you need to know them to seek timely medical treatment.

Malaria kills a child every minute. While medical researchers have successfully developed effective drugs to kill the malaria parasite, efforts to treat the effects of the disease have not been as ...

According to WHO data, there were 282 million cases of malaria in 2024, an increase of about 9 million cases (3%) compared ...

Improving health in Kenya today is an important objective, with an obvious direct impact on longevity and accelerating economic growth for millions of Kenyans The distribution of diseases in the ...

A monoclonal antibody (mAb), L9LS, shows promise in preventing malaria infection, according to the results of a small, proof-of-concept study reported in The New England Journal of Medicine. Of 17 ...

Health workers at Soroti Regional Referral Hospital have raised alarm over a surge in malaria and pneumonia cases, warning that delayed treatment is driving severe complications and avoidable deaths, ...

Nonprofit leaders and economists are debating whether it is wiser to give people in Africa free malaria nets to fight the disease or to charge small sums for them, reports BusinessWeek. The use of ...