Cases of the disfiguring disease in Achham are declining, but many may still go unreported out of fear of social exclusion, ...

COIMBATORE: The District Health Department has completed its month-long leprosy Screening drive in select hotspots in rural areas, and identified seven new case ...

Dhone MLA Kotla Jayasurya Prakash Reddy formally inaugurated ‘Dronacharya Urban Forest’, which has been developed in front of ...

The nine-banded armadillo has followed trails of ants and along the side of roads all the way across the country to East Tennessee.

DMK's A Raja clarified that he was not asking anyone to renounce their faith but emphasised the 'need' to distinguish DMK ...

Historians are working to shine a light on Alice Ball’s legacy and contributions to an early treatment of a dangerous and stigmatizing disease.

The department of dermatology, venereology & leprosy at Father Muller Medical College, in collaboration with the Karavali ...

"Through such trials, the human soul is sculpted into something beautiful," a patient once told Swiss dentist Julien Grivel, ...

Leprosy is present in 12 countries worldwide, with Nigeria, Brazil, India, and Indonesia among the most impacted, reporting between 1,000 to 10,000 cases annually. Kashmir: Choosing to live in a ...

Uganda reported an estimated 98,000 new TB cases, translating to an incidence rate of 227 cases per 100,000 population.