On Monday, World Health Organization officials and scientists will gather in Uganda to discuss a mysterious affliction, called “nodding disease,” that is affecting almost 3,000 children in the African ...

KITGUM, Uganda -- Augustine Languna's eyes welled up and then his voice failed as he recalled the drowning death of his 16-year-old daughter. The women near him looked away, respectfully avoiding the ...

More than two decades after the first cases were reported in northern Uganda, nodding syndrome continues to cast a long shadow over Pader District. While no new infections are being recorded, families ...

A new study suggests that a course of the drug doxycycline can decrease acute seizure-related hospitalization and deaths related to nodding syndrome. Nodding syndrome is a neurological condition that ...

A new study suggests that a course of the drug doxycycline can decrease acute seizure-related hospitalization and deaths related to nodding syndrome. Image Credit: Liverpool School of Tropical ...

Uganda has opened its first clinics specifically set up to help thousands of children who have a mysterious fatal condition known as nodding syndrome. The disease's cause is unknown, but it affects ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The study included 240 patients with nodding syndrome given doxycycline or placebo. Doxycycline may help reduce ...

KITGUM, Uganda - Augustine Languna's eyes welled up and then his voice failed as he recalled the drowning death of his 16-year-old daughter. The women near him looked away, respectfully avoiding the ...

PADER DISTRICT, Uganda (Reuters) - Most mornings, Michael Odongkara takes his daughter Nancy Lamwaka outside and ties her ankle to a mango tree. It's not something he likes to do. But the disease that ...

PADER DISTRICT, Uganda, March 6 (Reuters) - Most mornings, Michael Odongkara takes his daughter Nancy Lamwaka outside and ties her ankle to a mango tree. Sign up here. It's not something he likes to ...