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

While still in nursing school, he witnessed the heartbreaking reality of patients arriving at hospitals too late for treatment.

Kala-azar is also known as visceral leishmaniasis. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) the disease is ...

Novartis’s (NVS) parasite-selective proteasome inhibitor with potent activity against kinetoplastid parasites was granted FDA orphan ...

India is progressing towards eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) through political support, community involvement, ...

Its visible symptoms and impact on physical appearance can lead to social rejection, stigma, and discrimination for patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis. It is a public health and social problem in ...

The superior lesion is the newest, and is beginning to ulcerate. She has no other medical problems. Cutaneous leishmaniasis is divided into two categories—Old World and New World—based on the ...

The fund also purchased over 10 million diagnostic tests including rapid tests for the swift diagnosis of diseases such as HIV, malaria and leishmaniasis, among others, as well as treatment for a ...

Traditional diagnostic methods used to detect American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis, such as histopathology using biopsy samples, culture techniques, and direct search for parasites, have low sensitivity ...

Scientists with the CDC report that they've detected the tropical, flesh-eating parasite leishmaniasis in patients who haven't traveled outside the country Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at ...