A comment article argues that Pakistan's low-cost, civil-society-led leprosy program, which has cut new cases by more than ...

The familiar issues of 'bullying' and 'discrimination,' and the absurdity of innocent people being hurt.This is an essay ...

Selwyn Joel “Joe” Eggmolesse called himself one of “the living dead” as a child – yet he went on to leave behind 26 ...

A new review shows how ancient pathogen genomics and palaeoproteomics together allow researchers to reconstruct not just ...

Note: This article is an extra edition of the book review and analysis series "The Emperor's National History" (by Tsuneyasu ...

Researchers believe that the Hospital of the Holy Innocents, founded in the 11th or 12th century, may have had "little houses with a little yard" for up to 20 people with leprosy. "You’d need to have ...

It has long been thought of as one of the most feared diseases in the medieval world. Leprosy was capable of inspiring religious debate and, for those who bore its symptoms, reshaping their place in ...

Korean residents in Japan often took on harsh work at Hansen's disease sanatoriums. Shovels, pickaxes and other tools used in civil engineering work are on display at the exhibition "Foreigners in ...

In the 1930s, Japan found itself battling against the spread of leprosy. Faced with the infectious disease, which attacks the nerves and deforms the body, the authorities confined leprosy patients to ...

Ohio has reported two cases of leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, this year. Leprosy is a rare disease in the U.S., and most people have a natural immunity to the bacteria that causes it. The ...