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.

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.

An international study published in the Malaria Journal claims that a widely used test for detecting malaria is delivering too many inaccurate false-negative results and is "not fit for purpose." ...

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 ...

Newborns have been underserved when it comes to medical products for malaria. The drugs and vaccines available to adults and older children are not approved for babies — those doses are too strong to ...