Johns Hopkins Malaria Minute

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Impactful malaria science, and the trailblazers leading the fight. A podcast from the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.

EXTENDED: How AI Chatbots Could Help Predict Antimalarial Drug Resistance Before It Strikes (with Robert Opoka and Elizabeth Winzeler)

Dec 20, 2024

We focus on drug resistance and the troubling news that the frontline drug against malaria, artemisinin, is failing due to resistant parasites in severe cases of malaria, and how the collective efforts of drug development – and the data produced – could be used to build an AI chatbot capable of predicting resistance...

How to Predict (And Avert) Antimalarial Drug Resistance

Dec 13, 2024

Researchers search for ways to predict antimalarial drug resistance and identify more effective drug combinations.

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The front-line treatment for malaria is typically a combination of drugs called artemisinin-based combination therapy. Resistance to treatment has already been reported in mild cases of malaria,...

‘Big Push’ Needed to Turn Tide on Malaria – WHO

Dec 11, 2024

The World Health Organization has today released its annual World Malaria Report. Here are the takeaways.

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The World Health Organization has today released its annual World Malaria Report. Here are the takeaways. Since the turn of the century, the global malaria community has averted over 2.2 billion malaria...