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 ...

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

A rare form of leprosy may have existed in the Americas long before European colonization, according to new research using ...

Roughly 4,000-year-old bones from Chile contain genetic evidence of leprosy, suggesting that a rare form of the bacteria that causes the disease may have been circulating in the Americas and long ...

Leprosy resurfaces in India due to climate change, poverty, and stigma, demanding urgent interventions and visibility.

Visakhapatnam: Visakhapatnam had reported 299 cases of leprosy in 2019. A recent study analysing 68 of these cases, identified a persistent burden of .

In this report, 30 patients in Mali with untreated multibacillary leprosy were treated with bedaquiline for 8 weeks, followed by standard multidrug therapy. Cultures were cleared in all the patient ...

European colonizers were thought to have brought leprosy to the Americas, but a new study reveals it existed there for thousands of years and was spread by a recently discovered bacteria species.