OKAYAMA—Newly found photographs of scribbles on prison cell walls at a sanitarium could shed light on the plight of leprosy patients who were locked up for attempting to escape or causing ...

Ann Aerts, head of the Novartis Foundation, tells us about AI4Leprosy, a diagnostic assistant researchers developed that helps healthcare workers detect leprosy with over 90% accuracy using ...

Egypt is one of the few countries where leprosy persists. But with effective treatment methods and cases declining, some say Cairo wants to close the country's last leprosy colony, Abu Zaabal, rehouse ...

TIRUCHY: The findings of a door-to-door leprosy case detection campaign launched last month in three blocks of Tiruchy district have set alarm bells ringing for health authorities. In the ...