Is there a difference in brain structure between men and women? If we were to find such a difference in a single neuron, ...

Tens of millions of people in Africa are infected by parasitic worms that cause lymphatic filariasis (also called ...

Many people sleep with their dogs on their beds. But where do we draw the line? Can cohabiting dogs be a health risk? For the ...

Tens of millions of people in Africa are infected by parasitic worms that cause lymphatic filariasis (also called ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. goes to Capitol Hill to promote and defend his massive overhaul of HHS, and President Trump's plans to ...

For parasitologists, the answer is simple. Neatly housed in each of the myriad segments of a giant T. solium tapeworm are ...

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this ...

Scientists have revealed how a parasite that affects millions of people every year evades our immune defenses.

“You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” Ralston said of her very first encounter with the parasite.

An anthelminthic drug commonly used for pinworm infections could be repurposed to treat a deadly form of skin cancer, ...

It's not quite as bad as The Last of Us. But progress has been achingly slow in developing new antifungal vaccines and drugs.