A new study has found that leprosy was circulating in Chile some 4,000 years ago, meaning the disease arrived in the Americas ...

It was five months and three days from the moment that I put out feelers to see if I could get permission to visit Kalaupapa ...

Leprosy’s tale stretches from 5,000-year-old skeletons in Eurasia to a startling 4,000-year-old case in Chile, revealing that ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that leprosy was present in the Americas thousands of years ago, challenging the belief that ...

Well-preserved genomes show a “rare” leprosy strain thriving in ancient Chile, rewriting when and where Hansen’s Disease ...

Hansen's Disease, more commonly known as leprosy, is a chronic disease that can lead to physical impairment. Today it exists ...

Insights from Toras Harav Levi Yitzchok Schneerson, the Rebbe's father, presented by Shliach Rabbi Dovid Dubov of New Jersey, ...

My mother co-managed a leper colony. It redefined the way I think about human interaction. Picture the scene. It’s 1961 and I ...

Hansen’s Disease, more commonly known as leprosy, is a chronic disease that can lead to physical impairment. Today it exists ...

In a bold vision for Nigeria’s public health fortunes, the National Assembly has called for greater accountability, domestic ...

Skin diseases contribute significantly to morbidity worldwide, yet their burden in North Africa and the Middle East (NAME) remains poorly understood. This study aims to assess the burden of skin ...

Researchers have recovered and sequenced Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from 4,000-year-old human remains in Chile, ...