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A decades-old medication is giving hope to children with Bachmann-Bupp syndrome, a genetic disorder affecting only 20 people worldwide. Early treatments show the drug may ease severe symptoms by targeting the root cause.
Researchers discovered how a deadly parasite evades the immune system using a "molecular shredder," solving a puzzle that stumped scientists for four decades. The breakthrough opens new pathways for treating sleeping sickness, which affects communities across sub-Saharan Africa.
A disease that once killed 40,000 people yearly across Africa can now be cured with three pills taken in one day. The breakthrough treatment just received WHO approval and could help eliminate sleeping sickness by 2030.
A single-dose treatment for sleeping sickness just received European approval, replacing brutal treatments with three tablets. The breakthrough brings Africa within reach of eliminating a disease that killed tens of thousands just two decades ago.
A single-dose pill that cures sleeping sickness in one day just received approval, replacing treatments that once required 10 days or dangerous arsenic injections. After decades of African-led research, this breakthrough could help eliminate a disease that's killed millions.
A decades-old sleeping sickness drug is showing promise for children with Bachmann-Bupp syndrome after doctors treated six patients with remarkable results. Now a major partnership could fast-track treatments for the 20 known cases worldwide.
In 2025, the world achieved stunning health victories as vaccines prevented millions of deaths and ten countries eliminated deadly diseases like malaria, HIV transmission, and sleeping sickness. From the Maldives becoming the first nation to eliminate three diseases at once to new breakthroughs in HIV prevention, science and global cooperation delivered hope.