Pact on pollutants

Negotiators at a United Nations-sponsored meeting in Geneva have decided to eliminate eight toxic pesticides and chemicals. However, DDT remains …

Take Unani medicines seriously

HAKIM MOHAMMED KHALID SIDDIQUI, director of Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine, New Delhi, tells VIBHA VARSHNEY that …

Weak spot

Secret of malaria parasite found

Troublemaking protein found

Breakthrough in fighting severe malaria among children

Malaria manipulation

Parasite controls biting behaviour of mosquitoes

New drugs on the block

The development of new drugs could contain the spread of malaria

Fungi fight malaria

Especially helpful against mosquitoes resistant to pesticides

Regional approach required for treatment of malaria

‘Manipulate market, lower drug prices’

In times of rising costs of healthcare compounded by shortage of funds, UNITAID, a UN organisation, was set up in 2006 to improve access to life-…

Malarial vector back with a vengeance in Rajasthan

Incessant rains and the resultant stagnant water in canals and fields have spawned a malaria epidemic in the western part of the state

Malaria in a ferment

Using yeast to produce a cure

Africa gets substandard malaria drugs

World Health Day focus on controlling vector-borne diseases

Dengue poses tough challenge; over 40 per cent of the world population is at risk from dengue, says WHO

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Malaria forecast

Meteorology can predict incidence five months in advance

Devil is in the details

A WTO meeting of ministers is hailed as a success

No healthcare for Simplipal tribals in Orissa

Drug abuse

Can render ineffective the only antimalarial medicine against Plasmodium falci

Glaxo pulls out anti-malaria drugs

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Award for ecosecurity

For his outstanding work in fighting malaria, V P Sharma gets the Green Scientist Award 2001

Herbs to heal malaria

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Mutations that make malaria drugs ineffective discovered

Gene kelch13 associated with malaria resistance

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