A woman with leprosy named Josefina Guerrero had helped soldiers in significant ways during the war, and here's how she did it.

The bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, initially developed to provide protection against TB, also protects against leprosy; and the magnitude of this effect varies. Previous meta-analyses ...

I was in Ndjamena, Chad in 2014 as the then Secretary General of the African Workers, to meet the labour leaders in that country. There was a major barracks on the road opposite the hotel I stayed ...

Leprosy displays a clinical spectrum that is determined by the host immunological response against M. leprae. [6] Differential recognition of viable or dead M. leprae in the natural course or ...

Exposing one foot outside the blanket at night is a scientifically supported method to improve sleep quality by aiding the body's temperature regulation, according to neurologists Dr. Sheetal Goyal ...

READ: SA's biggest beef producer hit by foot-and-mouth disease Dr Langa Madyibi, Director of Veterinary Services in the North West, said other districts are being investigated.

The diagnosis was established with hypochromic macules with alteration of sensitivity (tactile and/or thermal and/or painful) in 20 patients (Fig. 1), two individuals presented a xerotic plaque with ...

The researchers presented the case report of a patient who had leprosy neuropathy that was initially misdiagnosed as chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). This case report is ...

"Rather, they continue going about their day, and this injury becomes worse, destroying the feet, resulting in Charcot foot." Fuller noted: "High sugars over time damage small blood vessels that bring ...

The AED wouldn’t have been able to save Balls, however. She died from the 100-foot fall from the Big Kahuna Overlook into the river below. “It was a very tragic death,” Erickson said. “Our thoughts ...

ARTICLES Leprosy frequency in the world, 1999-2010 Maria Lúcia Fernandes PennaI, +; Gerson Oliveira Penna II I Departamento de Epidemiologia e Bioestatística, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A human foot was discovered at the Old Hickory dam on Old Hickory Lake Friday morning. Officers were called to the dam located on Cinder Road around 7:45 a.m. According ...