Hansen’s disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today – and that’s partly thanks to a curious tree and the work of a ...

Leprosy has existed for more than 3,000 years and is the one of the oldest diseases known to humanity. Though a cure is available, 200,000 individuals are still diagnosed with the disease each year.

The bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, initially developed to provide protection against TB, also protects against leprosy; and the magnitude of this effect varies. Previous meta-analyses ...

“It appears, to me, to be a landmark paper which really provides a bounty of insight into this newly recognized and little-understood organism,” said Richard Truman, chief of the laboratory research ...

GOSHI, Kumamoto Prefecture--A national leprosy sanitarium here has found that drug trials conducted on residents during and after World War II violated their human rights and led to the deaths of ...

The island of Molokai, where the Ball Method successfully treated leprosy sufferers. Albert Pierce Taylor ...