DURHAM, N.C. -- Even when a person suffering from malaria is burning up with fever and too sick to function, the tiny blood-eating parasites lurking inside them continue to flourish, relentlessly ...

Florida health officials are now issuing warnings for a rise in cases of dengue fever in South Florida. Eleven locally-acquired cases of the disease have been found in Broward County and Miami-Dade ...

Increased p53, the well-known tumor-suppressor protein, can predict whether malaria-infected children will develop fever or other symptoms, suggests a new study. The authors say the findings could ...

This do-it-yourself approach is not only dangerous; it’s scientifically flawed. Fever is not a disease. It’s a symptom — your body’s way of sounding the alarm that something is wrong. That “something” ...

The parasites that cause 200 million cases of malaria each year can withstand feverish temperatures that make their human hosts miserable. Now, a team is beginning to understand how they do it. The ...