Texas Children's Hospital, a Houston based not-for-profit health care organization, announced Monday that the Carlos Slim Foundation is this year's recipient of the 2015 International Recognition ...

The Carlos Slim Foundation has contributed $2.6 million to the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine for the Chagas Vaccine Initiative, in an ongoing effort to fight ...

Latina author Daisy Hernández discussed her book "The Kissing Bug" and why Chagas' disease, which mostly impacts Hispanics, has been largely ignored in the U.S.

In 1912, just three years after Carlos Chagas described the transmission of the disease by kissing bugs, French parasitologist Émile Brumpt recounted that he had infected almost 100 bed bugs ...

Named after the Brazilian epidemiologist Carlos Chagas, who first described it in 1909, Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a potentially life-threatening illness caused by ...

Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a potentially life-threatening illness caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi.Named after the Brazilian physician Carlos ...

It is 101 years since Carlos Chagas discovered the parasite responsible for the disease that now bears his name. What progress has been made since this discovery? Here Julie Clayton gives the low ...

It is an infectious disease caused by a protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. The disease has been named after Brazilian physician Carlos Chagas, who discovered it in 1909.

Researchers from one Washington, D.C., center confirmed that there was a high prevalence of Chagas disease in a sample of Latin American immigrants hospitalized with cardiac conditions. Of 97 ...

Chagas disease is one of the most neglected tropical diseases, named after the Brazilian physician Carlos Chagas who first described it 100 years ago. It is caused by the protozoan kinetoplastid ...