When parasitic worms are absent, the immune system sometimes overreacts producing an autoimmune disease. New treatments based ...

Panel A shows a scanning electron micrograph of Necator americanus. The buccal capsule is characterized by cutting plates, which allow the adult parasite to feed on intestinal mucosa, submucosa, and ...

LOWNDES COUNTY, AL JULY 10, 2017: Aaron Thigpen, 29, observes a site where raw sewage is dumped through a PVC pipe only a few yards away from a home. Thigpen, a community activist in nearby Fort ...

Parasitic hookworm therapy had no significant benefit on MRI in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), the phase II WIRMS trial showed. However, about half of hookworm-treated participants and a ...

A team of British scientists investigating whether a tiny tropical hookworm could provide a cure for asthma and hay fever have committed the ultimate act of bravery by infecting themselves with the ...

Hookworm is a parasite that causes infection in people of all ages. It enters the body through the skin and can lead to a number of complications. Hookworm is most likely to occur in a moist, hot ...

Treatment with hookworm larvae was well tolerated in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), and although the primary outcome was not met there was some evidence of a beneficial therapeutic effect in ...

This is a compelling commercial for shoes. A Canadian couple Katie Stephens, 22, and Eddie Zytner, 25, vacationing in the Dominican Republic showed why not wearing shoes made them suffer "de feet'. As ...

Hookworm infections in humans are caused by two important species of nematode parasites (a type of a roundworm), Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus. A much larger group of hookworms that ...

A new collaboration between researchers at the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. will aid researchers in providing care for ...

In the early 20th century, the Rockefeller Foundation embarked upon a massive public-health campaign that radically changed the economic landscape of the Southeastern United States. A parasite, the ...

Hookworms are soil-transmitted nematode parasites that can reside for many years in the small intestine of their human hosts, where they suck blood and can cause iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) in ...