Every year, there’s a new lineup of such curious clinical conditions. There are always some unfortunate souls to mark medical ...

Doctors warn that the parasite cleanse trend misleads patients, causing health risks and delaying proper diagnosis of ...

A common parasitic infection, neurocysticercosis, is increasingly causing seizures in children, often mistaken for other ...

Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall weren’t just defending the frontier—they were also battling parasites that made daily life ...

Is your favorite floof off their food? Does your canine companion curl their nose up at their cuisine? Never fear, for here are the answers to the questions you’re dying to ask about your dog ...

Sediments from a Roman latrine at Vindolanda show soldiers were infected with multiple intestinal parasites, including roundworm, whipworm, and Giardia — the first time Giardia has been identified in ...

Cases of a highly contagious stomach virus are on the rise in Illinois and the Midwest, and health officials are warning people to take extra precautions as numbers could be even higher than reported ...

This winter, make sure you wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water before eating food outside. Cases of the dreaded norovirus, also known as the stomach bug, have been widely reported across ...

Worms, bugs and mold — oh my. Some USC students claim when they grab a meal at the campus dining halls, they’re getting a whole lot more than they bargained for. In cringy pictures and videos posted ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

LONDON (AP) — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?