For example, pharmaceutical chemist, Youyou Tu, discovered artemisinin, an antimalarial extract from the plant Artemisia after being inspired by an entry in the sixteenth century tome, Compendium ...

Over 600,000 people worldwide die from mosquito-borne malaria each year, with the majority of these deaths happening among children under 5. Now, there's troubling news that the malaria parasite ...

Ancient Chinese used a treatment based on artemisinin (documented 168 BC), the active ingredient in some high-end drugs nowadays. Treatments with Quinine are known to the western world since the ...

a situation that is increasing in Africa but is especially prevalent in Asia where more than 50% of artemisinin products are fake. New developments such as improved rapid malaria tests and their ...