A genetic quirk in an island race could lead to a cure for malaria in two years, it has been claimed. The mutation, which protects people of Papua New Guinea from the disease, has been found by ...

The task that faced the cinchona tree hunters was a formidable one. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, it was known that cinchona trees could be found, in relatively small numbers, over a ...

President Donald Trump has become an advocate of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the coronavirus, and it appears he may have first heard about it from a surprising source ...