No matter how bad things might seem, at least you haven't accidentally eaten fox poop and developed an insidious tapeworm infection that masquerades as a cancerous liver tumor while it slowly destroys ...

Five years after the pandemic began, interest in the deworming drug is rising as right-wing influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it.

Toxocariasis is a roundworm which can be passed from dogs and cats to humans and can cause potentially ... Treatment of threadworms is with a dose of mebendazole or Pripsen (piperazine) as you ...

Several types of intestinal worms can infect humans. The general term for these animals is ... or a 500 mg tablet of Vermox (mebendazole). Infections with strongyloidiasis respond well to Stromectol ...

Three states have legalized over-the-counter sales of ivermectin, but people should only take it for approved uses with ...

Diego Grandi via Shutterstock Sharks might not be as responsible for rare human bites as we assumed. In a study released today, scientists argue that at least some shark bites should be considered ...

Humans, it turns out, are better than current AI models at describing and interpreting social interactions in a moving scene—skills necessary for self-driving cars, assistive robots, and other ...

A team of biomedical researchers trained a machine learning algorithm to identify more than two dozen viable treatments for diseases caused by zoonotic pathogens that can jump from animal hosts to ...

Why don’t humans have hair all over their bodies like other animals? – Murilo, age 5, Brazil Have you ever wondered why you don’t have thick hair covering your whole body like a dog ...