A long-forgotten drug shows promise for children with a rare disease, offering hope for treatment where none previously ...

A decades-old drug once used to treat sleeping sickness is now showing surprising promise against an ultra-rare and ...

Sleeping sickness, also known as trypanosomiasis, is a neglected tropical disease, because of the problems it continues to cause for many communities in sub-Saharan Africa. It’s caused when a tsetse ...

Sleeping sickness is a notorious disease — immortalized in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. A single bite from a tsetse fly carrying the parasite is all it takes to infect someone. Without treatment ...