Leprosy: India ’s hidden plague
Funding and progress on treatment for the disease stalled, pushing those afflicted into a life of stigma and poverty (Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare)
Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare - April 18, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Ethiopia: Alert Launches Blended Leprosy, TB, HIV Training
[Ethiopian Herald] The All African Leprosy Rehabilitation and Training (ALERT) Centre yesterday started a blended training on Leprosy, TB and HIV via video conference for health workers in different parts of the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - April 7, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Nigeria: Nasarawa Records 12,000 Tuberculosis Cases in Five Years
[Premium Times] Nasarawa State recorded 12,000 cases of tuberculosis in the last five years, according to Aboki Dajuma, the State Coordinator, Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Agency. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - March 31, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Immune suppressant ineffective in treating leprosy inflammation
(PLOS) Throughout the course of a leprosy infection, patients often have episodes of painful inflammation affecting their skin and nerves. Researchers have continuously struggled with finding effective drugs to treat these so-called 'type 1 reactions,' and now one more study has come up empty-handed. The immune-suppressant azathioprine did not improve the standard of care treatment with steroids, researchers report in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - March 30, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
One Little Girl Beat The Deadliest Form Of Tuberculosis. She Is Very Lucky.
WASHINGTON ― When Baltimore resident Arjun kisses his 6-year-old daughter’s forehead, it’s not always just a sign of affection.
His daughter, Sujata, is onto him. “Is that a temperature kiss?” she asks.
Arjun compulsively checks his little girl’s temperature for a reason. Sujata is the survivor of the “first well-described case” of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in a young child in the U.S., according to her physicians.
Tuberculosis is the world’s biggest killer among infectious diseases, and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis ― or XDR-TB, which is re...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - March 24, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news
One Little Girl Beat The Deadliest Form Of Tuberculosis. She Is Very Lucky.
WASHINGTON ― When Baltimore resident Arjun kisses his 6-year-old daughter’s forehead, it’s not always just a sign of affection.
His daughter, Sujata, is onto him. “Is that a temperature kiss?” she asks.
Arjun compulsively checks his little girl’s temperature for a reason. Sujata is the survivor of the “first well-described case” of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in a young child in the U.S., according to her physicians.
Tuberculosis is the world’s biggest killer among infectious diseases, and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis ― or XDR-TB, which is re...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Tanzania: Programme Trains People to Identify TB Cases
[Daily News] LAUNCHED in 1977, the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Programme (NTLP) works to eradicate tuberculosis as a major public health threat within the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 21, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Leprosy Patients, Care Givers Tremble As Key Donor Pulls Out of Nigeria
[Premium Times] Mustapha Abdullahi, a resident of Egabi in Kaduna State, has been battling leprosy for over eight years. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 18, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Speakers Corner with a wide spectrum of themes - renowned employers introduce themselves - know-how tours - partners: the International Dental Show 2017
The latest products and services of the dental industry are the focus of the International Dental Show (IDS) from 21 to 25 March 2017 in Cologne. IDS offers exhibitors and visitors from all over the world an ideal platform to exchange knowledge and experiences, network and initiate business transactions - rounded off by a diversified supporting programme, which addresses all target groups and promotional groups. The events of long-standing partners also contribute towards this: The German Dental Association (BZ ÄK) is once again offering dentists comprehensive consulting and information, the Association of German Dental T...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - March 9, 2017 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
Ethiopia: Country Set to Eliminate Leprosy Related Disability
[Ethiopian Herald] Cheru Gebre ,54, had been infected by leprosy causing germ when he was 12. His parents did their best to see their child free from the disease. But, they were deceived by a wrong attitude held in the community: 'considering the disease as curse, demonic possession and hereditary.' (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 9, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
What life was like for a medieval leper
In excavating the medieval site of the St. Mary Magdalen hospital cemetery and chapel in Winchester, England, researchers were looking to genotype a strain of leprosy. They wanted to shed light on the origins and evolution of the epidemic that plagued Europe in the Middle Ages. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - January 26, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Skeleton And Artifacts Expose Medieval Christian Pilgrim With Leprosy
This young man who died in a Medieval leper hospital may have been a Christian pilgrim. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 26, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Kristina Killgrove, Contributor Source Type: news
Archaeologists Uncover The Skeleton Of A Medieval Christian Pilgrim With Leprosy
This young man who died in a Medieval leper hospital may have been a Christian pilgrim. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 26, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Kristina Killgrove, Contributor Source Type: news
Nigeria: Inside Niger's Leprosy Colony
[Daily Trust] Minna -Lami Yuhana sat in the veranda of the two room mud structure, at the Kompani Kutare, staring at an object only she could see. She was jolted from her reverie by salutations from the unexpected guests who had entered her compound before she realized that they were present. She staggered from her sitting position with visible effort, revealing an artificial right limb, in place of what used to be her right leg but which is now deformed by Leprosy. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 20, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
18 Diseases The World Has Turned Its Back On
This article is part HuffPost’s Project Zero campaign, a yearlong series on neglected tropical diseases and efforts to eliminate them.
More than 1 billion people on the planet suffer from illnesses that the world pays little attention to.
Neglected tropical diseases are a group of at least 18 diseases that primarily affect people living in poverty in tropical regions of the world and are virtually unknown elsewhere, according to the World Health Organization.
These are diseases like river blindness, which has infected 18 million people worldwide and caused blindness in 270,000 people; or...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - December 6, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
