For close to two decades, the U.S. Agency for International Development has partnered with countries around the world to combat neglected tropical diseases, or NTDs. The term refers to a group of ...

It’s a disease of children living in extreme poverty. Its cause is uncertain. So is the number of children it affects. But soon, the devastating condition known as noma may be a bit less neglected.

A nurse gives gives medicine, Ivermectin, against onchocerciasis or river blindness. Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images Neglected tropical diseases are a group of communicable diseases found in ...

Some diseases are rare, in that they are experienced by relatively few people. Others are neglected, in that few, if any, drugs are available to treat them. Rare and neglected diseases aren’t rare in ...

Around 2018, Diango Tounkara started having trouble seeing at night. "I didn't know what was wrong," she says in Bambara, a language spoken in her native Mali. "It was getting worse and worse by the ...

A major health challenge of our time is when drugs no longer work to treat infections. This happens when the agents that cause infections – they may be bacteria, viruses or fungi – become resistant to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You've likely heard about "neglect," but is "over neglect" a term invented by social media? While over-neglect is not a clinical ...

The patient – a man in his mid-30s – was languishing in a hospital in Bangladesh, infected with a disease called visceral leishmaniasis. He was so close to death he wasn't even eligible for the ...