As tick season nears, just one tick bite can set off a chain reaction of maladies that can all but ruin a person’s life, ...

This is the first time that a fossil thrips has been recorded anywhere in Africa, or the entire southern hemisphere.

Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...

Blood tests showed elevated eosinophils, which can be a sign of a parasitic infection, among other things. They searched for ...

Doctors revealed the 19-year-old developed the curved marks on his neck while working as a beach lifeguard ... They then diagnosed him with cutaneous larva migrans—a parasitic skin infection caused by ...

Gut symptoms blight millions of Brits every year. But the cause may not be actually be irritable bowel syndrome or ...

Check out these Canadian comic books and graphic novels coming out in spring 2025.

In most cases, the rash from a wandering worm is in a foot, ankle, thigh, or rear—basically from a person walking or sitting in fecal-contaminated soil with exposed skin. But, in the New England ...

But this type of learning happens slowly and often unreliably, and it was still unclear whether days-old zebrafish can learn ... that a developing zebrafish larva contains just 1 percent or ...

In extreme cases, the swelling can be profound, resulting in a condition known as elephantiasis. This is because the worm ...

Jan. 16, 2025 — A new report shows the benefit of wearing contact lenses for slowing myopia has a lasting effect -- good news since 50% of the world (5 billion people) will likely be nearsighted ...