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 ...

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 ...

From England was reported a sharp increase in the number of cases of the new sleeping sickness (Encephalitis lethargica). Every week of 1924 has revealed, for that matter, a relentless increase. For ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have discovered a new way of tackling the fatal parasitic disease African sleeping sickness which they say could pave the way for the development of safe, ...

DALLAS - Jan. 4, 2018 - Sleeping sickness could use a more encompassing moniker. An international study from the O'Donnell Brain Institute shows one of Africa's most lethal diseases is actually a ...

Getting enough sleep can help protect you from getting sick. “Sleep is critically important to maintaining a healthy immune system, so we need to sleep enough. We also need to have good timing of our ...

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 ...