As human activity alters the environment, kissing bugs and parasites will ultimately adapt. The geographic range of infected ...

A long-term follow-up study among patients with chronic Chagas disease showed that the time to positive molecular detection of the disease was significantly shorter with posaconazole than with ...

and Chagas disease, as well as managing advanced HIV, TB, and HIV/TB co-infection. The initiative involves experts from Paraguay, Brazil, and the PAHO, who are assessing needs through visits to ...

Up to seven million people on the planet have Chagas disease, with 75 million at risk of infection, but current treatments have limited effectiveness and major side effects. In an effort to tackle ...

Chagas disease, which is otherwise known as American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical parasitic disease caused by the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite. It is commonly referred to as the "silent illness" or ...

Your mood plummets as you remember ticks spread Lyme disease. Lyme disease gained notoriety when cases spiked in 2022 and 2023, over doubling between 2017 and 2023, according to the CDC.

New insights into the mechanisms that cause more severe cases of schistosomiasis -- a disease caused by parasitic worms and second only to malaria in terms of potential harm -- have been revealed.

Two significant programs that invested in research on diabetes, dementia, obesity and kidney disease have ended since the start of the Trump administration. By Gina Kolata Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...

But when your dad lost control of his body because of a rare neurodegenerative disease, and died a month after diagnosis, your body forgets. Needs reminding. Even almost three years later.

He had a genetic condition called Alexander disease, and the outlook was bleak. Immediately the geneticist said, “At the moment, there is no treatment, no cure and life expectancy is five to 10 ...