Malaria remains one of the most pressing public health concerns in Ghana, affecting thousands of people every year .

Indiana University School of Medicine researchers and their collaborators in Uganda at the Makerere University School of ...

A fascinating new book is an eye-opening journey into the many ways ants, apes, bees, bears, and other animals know how to ...

Scientists have pinpointed and described unusual subtypes of fat cells that may help scientists explain why gut fat is linked ...

The malaria parasite is still killing almost half a million people every year. A project has now identified a gene that holds ...

Health officials in Congo suspect a mysterious disease that killed 52 people and sickened 943 in Equateur province to be ...

A mystery illness has caused 60 deaths​ in the Democratic Republic of Congo. One of the outbreaks was preliminarily linked to ...

The first cases occurred after children ate bats. Now hundreds of people in two villages are sick and more than 50 are dead.

A promising new strategy for antimalarial treatment? A recent study discovers a gene regulation inhibitor that selectively ...

A yet-unidentified illness has killed 53 people and potentially infected hundreds more in the Democratic Republic of the ...

Malaria was believed to be caused by miasma ... into the bloodstream. These parasites first travel to the liver, invading liver cells and multiplying undetected by the immune system.