At just 23, a young chemist solved a deadly medical problem, then vanished from credit and history, leaving behind a cure, a ...

Leprosy is a bacterial disease that affects the skin, nerves, eyes, and mucosal surfaces of the upper respiratory tract. It is transmitted via droplets and causes skin lesions and loss of sensation in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The island of Molokai, where the Ball Method successfully treated leprosy sufferers. Albert Pierce Taylor Hansen’s disease, also ...

This article is part of the Black Monuments Project, which imagines a world that celebrates black heroes in 54 U.S. states and territories. Alice Ball is one of the most innovative hidden figures in ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Community leaders and students celebrated Black History Month Wednesday and Alice Augusta Ball, a black UH chemist who created a treatment for leprosy. Her discovery was ...

In 1915, an infection with leprosy (also called Hansen’s disease) often meant a death sentence. Patients were commonly sent into mandatory quarantine in “leper colonies,” never to return. Before the ...

Hansen’s disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today – and that’s partly thanks to a curious tree and the work of a pioneering young scientist in the 1920s. Centuries prior to her discovery, ...