Hansen’s disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today – and ... In a 1922 article, Hollmann documents how the 23-year-old Ball discovered how to chemically adapt chaulmoogra into an ...

American chemist Alice Ball revolutionized leprosy treatment by making chaulmoogra oil injectable, decades before antibiotics ...

Leprosy was once thought to be a curse from God, or a genetic malady. However, in 1873, physician Gerhard Armauer Hansen discovered the mycobacterium, leprae, and realized the disease was ...

The film looks at the history of the Hansenites - individuals affected by Hansen's disease, also known as leprosy - through ...

30 January marks World Leprosy Day. Leprosy is also sometimes known as Hansen’s Disease. Some people believed the illness is hereditary and a punishment from God, but really Leprosy is caused by ...

The study’s findings provided a foundation for the 1907 introduction of the first legislation to isolate those suffering from Hansen’s disease that is known as “law No. 11 about leprosy ...

OKAYAMA—Newly found photographs of scribbles on prison cell walls at a sanitarium could shed light on the plight of leprosy patients ... family to the National Hansen’s Disease Museum in ...