In a reward-free touchscreen game, Japanese macaques favored a button that made a puppet pop up in somewhat unpredictable spots, like curious humans. Six zoo orangutans heard laughter before learning ...

One of the world’s oldest diseases has an even more complex history than expected. Research out today reveals that a form of leprosy was stalking people in the Americas long before Europeans arrived.

A bit of medical advice: Stay away from medieval squirrels. That’s what a study in Current Biology seems to suggest, anyway, after showing that red squirrels hosted strains of the leprosy bacteria ...

Leprosy has a history that has spanned centuries and societies across the globe. Yet, it continues to be a problem -- even in the modern era. Sufferers from the chronic and infectious skin disease ...

Skeletal remains showing evidence of leprosy from the Odense St. Jørgen cemetery in Denmark, which was established in 1270 and existed until 1560. Dorthe Dangvard Pedersen Leprosy is one of the oldest ...

Leprosy still affects hundreds of thousands of people today throughout the entire world. An international team headed by EPFL professor Stewart Cole has traced the history of the disease from ancient ...

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New research by an international team has revealed that there was much more diversity in the leprosy strains circulating in Medieval Europe than previously thought. This finding, based on the ...

Sudden unexpected infant deaths now drive over a third of the Black-white infant mortality gap, a JAMA study shows. Safe sleep steps inside. Novo Nordisk Licenses Experimental Once-Weekly Obesity Pill ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The history of the country shows how slavery once controlled Black lives but even after emancipation, harmful associations followed African Americans. This was true especially in ...