Marie Renaud, an intern at the University of Montreal and CHUM Hospital's International Health, will be joining the World Health Organization's African office, where she will be working on the funding ...

Doctors at the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation-run Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital have successfully recreated the lost lower lip and trimmed the overgrown lower jaw of a 23-year-old youth ...

Thirty-six patients suffering from cancrum oris and other related ailments have successfully undergone reconstructive plastic surgeries, at Noma Hospital, Sokoto. Cancrum oris is a devastating ...

Noma, otherwise known as necrotising ulcerative stomatitis, gangrenous stomatitis or cancrum oris is a bacterial infectious but non-contagious infection; resulting from poor oral hygiene, lack of ...

Noma is a rapidly progressing and often deadly gangrenous infection of the face. Horrifically, it mainly affects very young children living in extreme poverty. Despite this, few know of Noma's ...

Noma, or cancrum oris, is a gangrenous infection that affects the facial tissues, particularly the soft tissues around the cheeks and mouth. For added douchebaggery, it is more common in children ...