Alice Ball: The Unsung Hero Who Cured Leprosy at Age 23
History is filled with groundbreaking discoveries, but few are as tragic or triumphantly impactful as the story of Alice Ball. At just 23 years old, she accomplished what the world’s leading medical researchers could not: developing the first injectable, water-soluble treatment for Hansen’s disease, commonly known as leprosy. Her revolutionary breakthrough, known as the Ball […]