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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 phase 2 trial has shown promising protective efficacy for what could become the first vaccine against hookworm, a parasitic disease affecting hundreds of millions of people around the world. The ...

In an advance that may potentially lead to new treatments for parasitic hookworms, scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Cornell University have sequenced the genome of the ...

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 ...

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 ...