Acoziborole could change that. The new drug works for both early and advanced stages of the most common form of sleeping ...

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 ...

A new oral drug that could simplify treatment for sleeping sickness has received a positive scientific opinion from the ...

A single-dose oral treatment for sleeping sickness is pushing Africa closer to eliminating one of its most persistent tropical diseases. After decades of complex and often dangerous therapies, a three ...

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.

European drug regulators on Friday endorsed a new and simpler treatment for sleeping sickness, in what could be a giant boost to efforts to eliminate the disease. A European Medicines Agency committee ...

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 ...

An oral drug is proving an effective treatment for the acute strain of this potentially fatal disease — an alternative to injections of drugs... Acute sleeping sickness – the treatment is almost as ...