What It'd Take To Save 10 Million Lives: Zinc, Bed Nets, $70 Billion
Is the price tag too expensive? Is the goal of saving 10 million lives a year too optimistic?
Malaria
Meet The Repo Man For Global Health: Skim Off A Grant, He'll Make You Pay
When he isn't fixing up vintage cars, Cees Klumper goes after officials who misuse money meant to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Obama's Upbeat Message About Ending Malaria Omits Discouraging Signs
His State of the Union address said we should be able to wipe out malaria. Progress has been enormous — but researchers are alarmed by new twists.
Global Health Forecast For 2016: Which Diseases Will Rise ... Or Fall?
What will be the big stories of 2016? Four experts offer their best guesses. They worry about Zika virus and malaria. But not all their predictions are downers.
Climate Change Is Killing Us, Literally — And Here's How
The World Health Organization projects an additional 250,000 deaths a year, starting in 2030, due to diseases like malaria and diarrhea.
It's A Necklace And It Could Be A Lifesaver: Wearable Health Gadgets
The challenge from UNICEF: Make a wearable device that can improve health. And the winners are...
Researchers Plot The Death Of P. Falciparum: The Malaria Parasite
Current drugs aren't working as well. Old drugs may be making a comeback. And a poet sums up the reason that malaria fighters met this week.
What's The Scariest Halloween Costume Of Them All?
It's a bloodsucking creature. But it's not a vampire. Or a vampire bat. Here's a look at the eight deadliest animals on earth (and a costume primer).
3 Scientists Awarded Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
The scientists from the U.S., Japan and China were awarded the Nobel Prize Monday for discovering drugs to treat parasitic diseases such as malaria, river blindness and elephantiasis.
On Orders From Mao, Researchers Set Off On Nobel-Winning Drug Work
In the 1960s, Chairman Mao Zedong ordered scientists to find a malaria antidote to help ailing soldiers in North Vietnam. Today's Nobel Prize for medicine went to one of those researchers.