Anyone who grew up in any rural village in Rwanda is familiar with intestinal worms. During my training as a medical doctor, I learned intestinal worms, also called soil-transmitted helminths, are one ...

It's called noma and is a disease of poverty, striking mainly children. Most patients die. Survivors are badly disfigured. Now there's a campaign to add it to the list of neglected tropical diseases ...

Elevating noma to the list of neglected tropical diseases could help mobilize resources for research on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

That's according to a statement submitted to Congress by the Neglected Tropical Diseases Roundtable ... filariasis," "schistosomiasis," and "human African trypanosomiasis," to list just a few of the ...

As in almost every war in the past, the dysenteries, which occurred in approximately 6700 out of each 100,000 men, headed the list of the tropical diseases in World War II.

Malaria, dysentery, yellow fever head the list of tropical diseases to be fought in World War II by the U.S. Medical Corps. Of the three, malaria, against which there is no true prophylactic, is ...

A year after noma was included on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Neglected Tropical Disease (NTDs) list, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues its work to encourage early detection and ...

U.S. aid cuts could jeopardize the supply of donated drugs that are hailed for their effectiveness in combating neglected diseases like river blindness, schistosomiasis and trachoma.