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

Dr. Samih al-Hussein, head of the health department, explained in a statement to SANA’s reporter Sunday that the services ...

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, ...

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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 ...