Mycetoma is a common neglected disease caused by either fungi or bacteria which organize themselves into grains—areas of inflammation surrounded by a collagen capsule. Now, researchers reporting in ...

Mycetoma, a neglected tropical disease, can cause severe disfigurement and disability if not treated early. A holistic, community-based approach to detection and case management is effective at ...

Under the scorching sun of rural Rajasthan, a barefoot farmer walks through his field—a scene so ordinary it barely draws notice. But what neither he nor the world sees is that a tiny thorn prick on ...

Osaka, Japan – A groundbreaking study led by a global research consortium offers new hope for patients with mycetoma, a neglected tropical disease. Researchers using an insect model and transcriptome ...

The MycetOS (Mycetoma Open Source) project was launched today by the University of Sydney, Erasmus MC, and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) to use an Open Pharma approach to discover ...

The world's only research centre on mycetoma, a neglected tropical disease common among farmers, has been destroyed in Sudan's two-year war, its director and another expert say. Mycetoma is caused by ...

Mycetoma remains a neglected tropical disease that inflicts chronic subcutaneous infections—primarily in impoverished rural populations—often resulting in extensive tissue damage, disability and ...

Mycetoma is a common neglected disease caused by either fungi or bacteria which organize themselves into grains -- areas of inflammation surrounded by a collagen capsule. Now, researchers have studied ...

"Mashiaat Allah" — It is God's plan. In Sudan, a father utters this Arabic expression as he watches his son die slowly from a flesh-eating fungus. The phrase provides consolation in its ...

‘Momentous’ breakthrough as trial finds treatment for nail infections to be highly effective for neglected tropical disease A cheap and easily taken drug used to treat fungal nail infections has been ...

Sarah Newey is a Global Health Security correspondent at The Telegraph, based in Bangkok. She has reported from more than 20 countries since first joining the desk in London, and covers issues such as ...

Mycetoma, a neglected tropical disease, can cause severe disfigurement and disability if not treated early. A holistic, community-based approach to detection and case management is effective at ...