Intestinal worms often lead to gastrointestinal symptoms, like diarrhea, because they live in your digestive tract. Other ...

THREADWORMS, roundworms and tapeworms, these tiny creatures are a leading cause of parasitic infection worldwide – setting up ...

Scientists have cast new light on a little understood group of worm infections, which collectively afflicts 1 in 4 people, mainly children -- in the developing the world. Scientists at The University ...

Researchers have discovered how intestinal worm infections cross-talk with gut bacteria to help the immune system. Intestinal worms infect over 2 billion people across the world, mostly children, in ...

As children immerse themselves in their school environments, exposure to various health issues often becomes inevitable. Among parents and caregivers, concerns about tummy bugs, head lice, and ...

These are common childhood illnesses that have a profoundly negative effect on the development and life of a child. Anaemia, which is the result of a deficiency of functioning red blood cells, results ...

A coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), has said that over 50 percent of children across the six area councils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), are infected with schistosomiasis, a ...

Susana Vaz Nery has received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Naomi Clarke does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

Nearly 850 species of parasites are known to infect people; some, like the potentially deadly plasmodium parasite that causes ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Pediatricians all over the Tampa Bay area are flooded with kids feeling horrible. The stomach bug is causing them big pain, with plenty of vomiting and diarrhea. Even though flu ...

One day, curing complex intestinal diseases could be as simple as opening a can of worms. Researchers have long had hints that parasites called helminths, or intestinal worms, may in some cases help ...