Cerebral malaria is a severe neurological complication caused by parasitic infection of a bite by an anopheles female mosquito. According to Dr George Biketi, the disease presents with a clinical ...

Each December, I mark the anniversary of my survival from cerebral malaria. That near-death encounter left me partially blind, profoundly changed and forever aware of the precarious nature of global ...

Researchers have built a 3D human blood-brain barrier in the lab and discovered a key role of brain pericytes in cerebral malaria disease Cerebral malaria kills 1 out of 5 children that suffer from it ...

Boosting a protective protein to stabilize blood vessels weakened by malaria showed improved survival beyond that of antimalarial drugs alone in pre-clinical research. Toronto General Research ...

Cerebral malaria is one of a number of clinical syndromes associated with infection by human malaria parasites of the genus Plasmodium. The etiology of cerebral malaria derives from sequestration of ...

Malaria kills a child every minute. While medical researchers have successfully developed effective drugs to kill the malaria parasite, efforts to treat the effects of the disease have not been as ...

A discovery by McGill-affiliated researchers could lead to more effective treatment of malaria and other parasitic diseases. When mice are infected in the middle of the night with the parasites ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each December, I mark the anniversary of my survival from cerebral malaria. That near-death encounter left me partially blind, ...

Circadian rhythms appear to influence vulnerability to malaria parasites. A discovery by McGill-affiliated researchers could lead to more effective treatment of malaria and other parasitic diseases.