Leprosy remains one of the biggest public health problems in many countries. It is a complex disease in several aspects, including clinical, histopathological, and molecular. This book is written to ...

An Anglo-French team has sequenced the genetic map of the leprosy bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae, a feat that could point to new ways to diagnose and treat the disfiguring disease that strikes ...

“We have known [for a long time] that the liver will regenerate after injury,” biologist Udayan Apte, associate director of the University of Kansas Liver Center, tells Inverse. “We know now [from ...

The findings that were published in the Tamil Nadu Journal of Public Health and Medical Research showed that over a span of ...

The history of leprosy in the Americas runs deeper than once thought, according to research published this May in Science. Well over a millennium ago—before European colonization—the bacterium ...

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.