Researchers discovers new drug to kill malaria parasite

PORTLAND, Ore. Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University and the Portland VA Medical Center have developed a drug that may represent one of the world's best hopes for treating and preventing malaria a disease that kills more than one ...

ExxonMobil Grant Foundation has renewed its commitment to the fight against malaria with 10 million dollars bringing its total assistance to malaria to cover an 83 million people in Africa and the Pacific Rim. The commitment is again to ...

Since 2000, over 1 million lives have been saved from malaria. This World Malaria Day (April 25th) is an opportunity to pause and reflect on the gains that have been made and how to scale-up for even more progress going forward. The Global Fund is ...

A foreign traditional Chinese medicine practitioner treats a Chinese patient in Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of TCM. Li Zhong / for China Daily Foreign tourists check out TCM products in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. Song Jianhao / for China Daily ...

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/16/13 -- Immunovaccine Inc. ("Immunovaccine" or "IMV") (TSX VENTURE:IMV), a clinical stage vaccine company, today released its financial and operational results for the quarter ended March 31, 2013. John ...

Aeras, a nonprofit biotech advancing TB vaccines for the world, the University of Oxford and Okairos, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in T-cell vaccines, today announced a $2.9 million grant to Aeras in support of a collaboration among the ...

HEALTH Madzorera has urged Indian firms supplying generic medicines to produce the drugs locally to help grow the country's pharmaceutical sector. Speaking in India, where he is holding meetings with various drug companies, Madzorera said: "Going ...

The ExxonMobil Foundation has announced grants totaling $10 million to organizations working to fight malaria around the globe. Announced in conjunction with World Malaria Day, the grants will support a range of interventions and efforts to combat ...

VENTURES AFRICA Nigeria's Justus Nwaoga has developed a new way to collect renewable solar energy by using the mimosa pudica weed, an organic African medicinal plant. Chosen from more than 900 applications from 45 countries, the innovator and ...