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Success Against Malaria in Africa Could End Deaths by 2015
A new report finds malaria control programs have saved hundreds of thousands of lives during the past decade. The World Health Organization, which has...
Ethiopia Has Halved Malaria Deaths in Just Three Years
The number of people who die from malaria in Ethiopia has been halved in just three years through the distribution of nearly 20 million...
Mosquito ‘Nose Transplant’ a Breakthrough in Wiping out Malaria
Five years of exhaustive research has yielded the key to thwarting “the most dangerous animal on the planet:” disarming its nose. Scientists at...
Malaria Cases Drop Dramatically Thanks to Increased Funding
A World Health Organization report released yesterday confirmed a reversal in the course of malaria, with far fewer children dying from the disease. The...
UNICEF Funding 20 Million Mosquito Nets for Anti-Malaria Effort
UNICEF has allocated more than $8 million in new funds to distribute insecticide-treated mosquito nets in eight countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Ray Chambers,...
UN Seeks to Ban DDT Pesticide, and Still Fight Malaria
The United Nations announced a plan on Wednesday that aims to finally rid the world of DDT, a toxic pesticide still used to spray...
Research Breakthrough in Treatment of Malaria
A team of Monash University researchers in Sydney has made a major breakthrough in the international fight against malaria, which claims the life of...
Malaria Vaccine Shows Promise in Babies and Youngsters
A promising malaria vaccine gives babies and young children significant protection against the deadly disease, suggest two clinical trials to be published Thursday...
Bed Nets Pay Off With Plunge in Malaria Cases in Gambia
The incidence of malaria in Gambia fell substantially in five years -- between 50 percent and 85 percent from 2003 to 2007 -- thanks...
Anti-Poverty Summit Raises $16 Billion- $3 Billion for Malaria (with Video)
Despite current financial woes, a UN summit called to rev up the war on global poverty raised a total of roughly 16 billion dollars,...
US Triples AIDS, Malaria, TB Funds for Poorest Countries
US President George W. Bush on Wednesday signed legislation tripling funds to fight the killer diseases of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in the world's...
Landmark Vaccine Protects Infants Against Malaria
The most ambitious attempt to engineer a vaccine against malaria has cleared another key hurdle, with tests among African babies showing the prototype to...
Cheap Allergy Drug Found to Cure Malaria in Mice
"The breakthrough has excited researchers" because the allergy drug found to kill the malaria parasite is "already licensed for use in people," and because...
Jordan Recognized as First in the World to Eradicate Leprosy
It is a disease that has been plaguing commoners and kings alike for millennia (as well as armadillos), but for the first time in...
Good News in History, October 26
Happy 73rd Birthday to William Collins, better known by his rather eternal moniker, "Bootsy." A bass guitar legend, Bootsy learned how to play in...
The Medicinal Value of Chaga Mushrooms as a Nutraceutical for Good Health
In an updated review of the medicinal value of the Siberian native fungus called chaga, international researchers underscored the almost unbelievable value of this...
Good News in History, October 6
113 years ago today, Beatrix de Rijk became the first female licensed Dutch aircraft pilot. This pioneering aviator was born in Surabaya, modern-day Indonesia...
Good News in History, July 30
On this day 94 years ago, at the conclusion of the inaugural FIFA World Cup, La Celeste, or Uruguay, won the trophy. Rarely considered as favorites...
Less Invasive Way to Collect Blood Is Inspired by Leeches and Needs No Medical Training
A new blood-draw device that's painless but more reliable than a finger prick has been developed by researchers in Zurich to help physicians bypass...
Ape Treating His Wound Using Medicinal Plant is a World First for a Wild Animal
Even though there is evidence of certain self-medication behaviors in animals, so far it has never been known that animals treat their wounds with...