/newsroom/taxonomy/term/4691/all en /newsroom/channels/news/what-time-malaria-bearing-mosquito-bites-you-might-make-difference-358318 <p> </p> <p>A discovery by McGill-affiliated researchers could lead to more effective treatment of malaria and other parasitic diseases.</p> <p>When mice are infected in the middle of the night with the parasites causing cerebral malaria, the symptoms of the disease are less severe than for those inflected during the day, and the spread of the parasites within the hosts is more limited, research teams from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, the Douglas Research Centre and the Research Institute of the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Health Centre have discovered.</p> Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:33:25 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 314579 at /newsroom /newsroom/scott-bohle Mon, 01 Aug 2022 18:30:29 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 288280 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/products-derived-plants-offer-potential-dual-targeting-agents-experimental-cerebral-malaria-285211 <p>Malaria, a life-threatening disease usually caused when parasites from the Plasmodium family enter the bloodstream of a person bitten by a parasite-carrying mosquito, is a severe health threat globally, with 200 to 300 million cases annually and 445,000 deaths in 2016.</p> <p>With pregnant women and children most vulnerable from infection, complications including anemia and cerebral malaria, the most severe neurological complication from malaria, are responsible for approximately 25% of the infant mortality rate in some regions of Africa.</p> Tue, 20 Feb 2018 18:49:29 +0000 nathan.menezes@mail.mcgill.ca 32983 at /newsroom /newsroom/martin-olivier Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23128 at /newsroom /newsroom/mary-m-stevenson Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 22928 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/5m-malaria-tuberculosis-drug-discovery-research-257396 <p>University of Toronto and Ï㽶ÊÓƵ scientists are leading an international partnership to discover new and improved drug treatments for tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases  -- thanks to a contribution from Merck Canada Inc., as well as an additional $5 million supplement to a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The new funding brings the total investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to nearly US $12 million since 2012.</p> Thu, 17 Dec 2015 20:34:42 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25046 at /newsroom