A four year-long research study has found that particles secreted by an intestinal worm may assist in treating inflammatory ...

In a bid to assess the prevalence of intestinal parasites in children, the Ministry of Health and Population is preparing to carry out a nationwide study with financial and technical support from the ...

Intestinal worms are also known as stomach worms ... deworming medications at schools and Anganwadi centers to get rid of worm infections for better growth. Children are more prone to developing ...

MEDICS were shocked to learn a little boy’s constipation was in fact dozens of worms blocking his digestive tract. The ...

Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) occurs when too much of the wrong bacteria overwhelms the small intestine, causing symptoms like abdominal pain, nausea, bloating, gas, indigestion ...

Our work has focused on whipworm, one of the major types of worm that lives in the large intestine of man. This is also where our intestinal microflora which we know is critically important for our ...

The Santa Ana winds were already blowing hard when I ran the first worm simulation. I’m no hacker, but it was easy enough: Open a Terminal shell, paste some commands from GitHub, watch ...

Scientists have been looking for a long time for the "switch" that turns regular intestinal cells back into regenerative stem cells, Brumbaugh says. Using animal models, he, Dempsey, and the rest ...

With every bite of food we take, our intestinal immune system must make a big decision. Tasked with defending us from foreign pathogens, these exquisitely sensitive cells somehow distinguish friend ...