In 1986, international health experts decided to eliminate the Guinea worm disease. The campaign was led by the Carter Center ...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died. He was 100 years old and had spent more than a year in hospice care.

The worms can grow 3 feet long inside the body before breaking out in painful blisters. Rarely fatal but often crippling, the ...

Dr. Donald R. Hopkins Jimmy Carter was a president, a peacemaker, a public health champion — and my friend. When he left the White House, Carter used the power of his name, character and influence to ...