Leprosy can cause a wide range of symptoms, typically affecting the skin, nerves, and mucous membranes. The severity and kind of symptoms varies based on the type of leprosy and the patient's ...

Leprosy mainly affects the skin, peripheral nerves, soft tissues around nose, mouth, lungs etc., and eyes. The symptoms of Leprosy can take a very long time, years - anywhere from 5-20 years to ...

Hypoallergenic skincare products are designed to minimise allergic responses to common irritants and allergens This article ...

A new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine showed that by 4 weeks of treatment, bedaquiline monotherapy ...

The "diagnostic assistant," as Aerts calls it, provides a point-of-care test using the newest technology, allowing HCPs who suspect a patient has leprosy to take a picture of the patient’s skin ...

The 2nd Global Meeting on skin-related neglected tropical diseases (skin NTDs) opens in Geneva today, to accelerate progress ...

Reddy RR; Singh G; Sacchidanand S; Okade R; Shivakumar V; Uday A; Haneef NS BACKGROUND: In spite of leprosy being a disease of nerves, ROM therapy for single skin lesion leprosy was based on ...

The World Health Organization says it will send leprosy drugs to Nigeria this weekend after resolving testing hold-ups that led to a year-long delay in thousands of patients, including children, ...

People affected by leprosy in Nigeria should be able to get hold of vital drugs to treat the disease for the first time in a year from this weekend, the World Health Organization has said.