Leprosy—an ancient disease often associated with distant historical eras—might not be as far behind us as we think. While ...

Swiss drugmaker Novartis vows to continue producing malaria and leprosy medicines despite global health funding cuts.

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

The Supreme Court on May 8 directed the States to form a Committee to identify the provisions in their laws, rules, ...

Prime Minister Oli said that the government would amend the law to prevent discrimination against the leprosy patients and ...

Kolhapur: Dwarkanath Kapoor was the first administrator of Kolhapur civic body, from 1972 to 1975, after it achieved the ...

Under the Dastak campaign, Asha workers identified 697 individuals with malaria symptoms, 496 with cold and fever, 35 with TB ...

There were many biblical words that translators and commentators mistranslated. Tzaraat was one of the many. It is mentioned in the 13th chapter of the fourth biblical portion of Leviticus, Tazri’a 12 ...

Since leprosy has been contained at the national level in these ... The datasets analyzed in this study are available from Yunnan Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The authors used the data ...

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.

SEATTLE — There's new hope for people in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. A new medication called donanemab appears to slow memory loss, giving patients the gift of more time.