Antimalarial medication

An engraving of a Peruvian forest

The chloroquine chronicles: A history of the drug that conquered the world

Health & Medicine

The history of the antimalarial drug chloroquine has many lessons about the power — and geopolitics — of medicine.

Anopheles gambiae species of mosquito.

Could a test for malaria be as easy as a breathalyzer?

Medicine

Fighting the spread of fake drugs in developing world

Health & Medicine

Drug-resistant malaria in Cambodia

Health & Medicine

FDA Issues its Strongest Warning on Anti-Malaria Drug Lariam

Global Politics
The World

Over-Treating Malaria in Africa

Health & Medicine

In Africa, even when tests show that a patient does not have malaria, clinicians often prescribe malaria treatment.