Can integrative medicine transform leprosy care in India? Read on to know how dermatology, CAM, and new therapies are ...

According to Ms Tipper, the leprosarium was known as "the hospital of the holy innocence". Ms Tipper said the building was a ...

Born into royalty, Amrit Kaur gave up a life of privilege to fight for India’s freedom, champion women’s rights, and lay the ...

In the photos, many of the patients’ scribbles on the walls are fragmentary and incomprehensible. But the family names of Kensuke Mitsuda (1876-1964), the first director of Nagashima Aiseien ...

The selection process for 1,166 local Zakat committees, which had been dissolved for the past two years, has begun in ...

At a leper colony in Vietnam, Pontifical Mission Societies USA President Monsignor Roger Landry celebrated Mass, brought ...

J amshedpur, Dec. 7 -- A total of 185 new leprosy patients were identified during an intensive Leprosy Patient Search Campaign (LCDC) conducted across East Singhbhum between August 28 and ...

Leprosy has existed for more than 3,000 years and is the one of the oldest diseases known to humanity. Though a cure is available, 200,000 individuals are still diagnosed with the disease each year.

There she worked for and among Hansenite patients, or those diagnosed with leprosy– a chronic infectious disease that affects the skin and the peripheral nerves. Hansen disease can cause permanent ...

As a result, inhabitants living in the dilapidated buildings are facing hardships. Citizens are demanding that at least by ...