Hansen’s disease, also known as leprosy, was long believed to be absent from the Americas prior to European contact. A new ...

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

So far, absence of these characteristic changes in the pre-contact American contexts suggests that leprosy was one of the many diseases introduced to the continent in the colonial period. Thereafter ...

Leprosy’s tale stretches from 5,000-year-old skeletons in ... Archaeological study of human bones from the pre-contact Americas confirm that the time was far from disease-free, but often the traces ...

The other day I indulged in one of my favorite treats – a massage. Human hands felt so good on my tight muscles and turned me ...