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The Nobel Prize 2015 in Physiology that is given to breakthrough in medicine is given to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura, for their therapy against roundworm parasites while China’s Youyou Tu was given for discovering novel therapy for malaria and she becomes the first Chinese woman to be given a Nobel Prize. Mr. Campbell and Mr. Omura won it ...

Amid growing concerns about the drug-resistant Malaria worldwide, University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist Stephen Rich and his research team have offered a new whole plant malaria treatment with highly promising results. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week, show that the new treatment based on a use of the whole plant (WP) Artemisia ...