Acute sleeping sickness – the treatment is almost as horrific as the disease. But now there is encouraging news about an oral medication – one that's also been used for chronic sleeping sickness to ...

In 2004, when physician Dr. Wilfried Mutombo began treating patients diagnosed with sleeping sickness, the available treatments were themselves horrific and sometimes deadly. "The widely available ...

While the events of the story are fantastically fictional, the sleeping sickness which resulted from Dream’s long imprisonment bears a striking resemblance to real-life events. In the comic, Dream is ...

The first treatment for sleeping sickness that relies on pills alone was approved Friday by Europe’s drug regulatory agency, paving the way for use in Africa, the last bastion of the horrific disease.

Although African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, has fallen in prominence to become extremely rare, the drug acoziborole may help the World Health Organization’s goal of eradicating ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended two drugs for the treatment of schistosomiasis and sleeping sickness for use outside of the European Union. The medicines were submitted through a ...

Sepsis, a microbial infection that’s overwhelming, remains one of the most significant sources of morbidity and mortality. In the U.S., “black individuals” have both a greater risk of hospitalization ...