China Arrests 2000 in Fake Meds Bust
Here’s an interesting postscript to our story on fake malaria meds: a report out of Beijing this morning…
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The Bitterest Pill: Maybe China Isn’t Counterfeiting Drugs
After a May report finding a third of the malaria pills inspected in Asia and Africa were counterfeit, observers piled on pharmaceutical companies in India and China as likely bad guys. But the truth is a little harder to swallow.
Turning Cellphones Into Mobile Microscopes
Researchers across California are working to bring medical microscopes to our cellphones — and vastly improve field medicine.
Malaria Vaccine Gives Debate Shot in the Arm
Once derided as the wrong path forward in fighting this mosquito-borne killer, a new malaria vaccine offers decent results and renewed hope.
The AIDS Funding Dilemma
In the "AIDS exceptionalism" debate, emotions run high, and the options are difficult: Shift some AIDS funding to other care, or find billions in new support.
Stopping Malaria With a Chastity Belt
Unlocking a bug’s chastity belt could open doors to a targeted insecticide to provide new hope in the fight against malaria.
Sharing Malaria with the African Thicket Rat
Until now, the most deadly form of malaria in humans, Plasmodium falciparum, has been linked to the disease…
A New Hope for Human Malaria Vaccine
Dutch researchers have characterized a large number of parasite proteins that could prove useful in the development of a human malaria vaccine.