Tests in West Africa have found that a safe drug long used to treat urinary tract infections is also effective against malaria. But the medication has one disadvantage: It turns urine a vivid blue.

At the turn of the millennium, a new class of drugs derived from ancient Chinese herbal medicine revolutionized malaria care. Artemisinin's, as they're called, are based on extracts from the sweet ...

Malaria kills hundreds of thousands of children annually, yet there hasn’t been a major new drug to fight it in more than 25 years. Now, Novartis says it has one. The Swiss company said Wednesday that ...

New Haven, Conn. — Almost half of the world’s population is at risk of malaria infection, with children and pregnant women at the highest risk of getting sick and dying from the disease. Current ...