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 ...

All leprosy patients, along with their household contacts, were systematically categorized based on sex, age, and specific type of leprosy (as detailed in Table 1). This classification underscores the ...

Princess Diana's charitable work drew global attention. Her are some of the causes that were close to her heart.

The push for the elimination of leprosy leads to a reduction of cases worldwide but might also have led to a premature perception that leprosy is no longer a public-health concern, with potential ...

In this review, the authors present M. leprae as a model for investigating the role of the human immune system in host defense and susceptibility to infection.