The film Kingdom of Heaven depicts the final years of Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, but what's the true history behind the movie? Through courage and dedication, Baldwin the Leper King has protected ...

July 12, GNA – Skin-Neglected Tropical Diseases (Skin-NTDs) are a group of diseases sharing common features on the body.   Skin-NTDs ...

When we are willing to do the very small things, God is able to do the BIG things. God can take our little bit that we offer ...

A collaborative research team led by Kirsten Bos at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in conjunction ...

In the dry, windswept valleys of Northern Chile, two ancient skeletons are changing how scientists understand the history of ...

Bones from 4,000-year-old human skeletons discovered in Chile contain evidence of a rare form of Hansen's disease, also known as leprosy, ancient DNA reveals. Whereas the more common form of leprosy ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.