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Monsoon Maladies: Malaria is more prevalent in the rainy season, 5 ways to stay safeDuring the monsoon season, heavy rainfall and increased humidity create ideal environments for mosquito breeding, especially among Anophele...28 Jun, 2024, 05.50 PM IST- Pakistan health authorities seek government permission to import mosquito nets from India after malaria cases surge due to floods: reportThe development came after a deadly malaria onslaught wreaked relentless havoc in flood-affected regions of the country, where hundreds of ...23 Sep, 2022, 11.40 AM IST
- Did you know Bengaluru was the centre of Nobel Prize-winner Ronald Ross's work on malarial parasite?Ross’s study of parasite in Bengaluru won him 1902 Nobel Prize for medicine.07 Jun, 2018, 04.19 PM IST
- 'New malaria vaccine found 100 per cent effective'The Plasmodium falciparum parasite is responsible for most malaria infections and almost all deaths caused by the disease worldwide.16 Feb, 2017, 04.22 PM IST
- India among 4 nations that account for 81% deaths from p.vivaxThe report said in 2015, an estimated 212 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide a fall of 22 per cent since 2000 and of 14 per cent s...13 Dec, 2016, 09.29 PM IST
- 'Self-sabotage' prevents immune protection against malariaMalaria parasites cause an inflammatory reaction that sabotages our body's ability to protect itself against the deadly disease, scientists...25 Dec, 2015, 02.31 PM IST
- New drug target for malaria identifiedResearchers identified the drug target while studying the way in which the parasites Toxoplasma gondii, which causes toxoplasmosis, and Pla...20 May, 2015, 06.46 PM IST
- New drug target for malaria identifiedMIT scientists have discovered a new drug target for treatment of the deadly malaria disease.20 May, 2015, 01.51 PM IST
- Existing drug may treat deadly form of malariaA drug already approved for treating other diseases in humans may be useful as a treatment for deadly cerebral malaria, according to Harvar...02 Feb, 2015, 01.34 PM IST
- New drug combo therapy may treat malaria in children'Artemisinin-naphthoquine drug-combo should be considered for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in settings where multiple parasite sp...31 Dec, 2014, 05.13 PM IST
- Scientists develop new method to diagnose malariaThe new method, which uses magnetic fields to detect the parasite's waste products in the blood of infected patients, is fast, reliable and...01 Sep, 2014, 01.30 PM IST
- First malaria vaccine may be ready next yearThe world's first malaria vaccine will be available in the market by next year. Pharma company GSK has submitted a regulatory application t...31 Jul, 2014, 01.03 PM IST
- New drug target to fight malaria identifiedThe disease is caused by Plasmodium parasites, which are transmitted to humans by the infectious bite of an Anopheles mosquito.28 Nov, 2013, 12.47 PM IST
- Ranbaxy gets CDSCO nod to sell malaria drug 'SynriamTM'"This approval makes SynriamTM one of the few therapies in the world that successfully treats both, Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falcipa...21 Oct, 2013, 01.17 PM IST
- Lives of compassionGood friend and fellow columnist Vithal C Nadkarni informed us here a couple of days back how the Dalai Lama brought the house down during ...07 Dec, 2012, 05.45 AM IST
- Here's how Malaria-causing parasite evades immune systemResearchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia, have found the evasion tactics of the malaria causing pa...07 Dec, 2007, 04.10 PM IST
- IISc biochemists find effective anti-malarial agent: In a major breakthrough, biochemists of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore have found that the anti-cancer drug and the inhibitor...24 Oct, 2006, 04.50 PM IST
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