If you’re of a certain generation, you’re likely to have clear memories of weekly dosings with cod liver oil (or castor oil, if you were particularly unlucky), a practice that was ostensibly a worm ...

The paper, recently published in the journal PNAS, found that roundworms can use static electricity to leap up to 25 times ...

DNA within dried feces dating from more than 1,000 years ago provides valuable insights into the pathogens that plagued ...

New discoveries about the malaria parasite made by researchers at Columbia and Drexel universities could change the way ...

Florida defenseman Dmitry Kulikov had surgery and is expected to be sidelined about five months because of an upper-body ...

Once confined to Latin America, Chagas disease – a potentially deadly parasitic infection that is spread in a gross way – is ...

In the dense forests of South America and Southeast Asia, a parasite operates with chilling precision. Ophiocordyceps ...

Heavy metals are dangerous at high levels, but treatments that remove can also be risky and only benefit certain patients.

GRAND FORKS — Law enforcement personnel recovered the body of an adult woman from the Red River in Grand Forks on Monday afternoon near the north boat landing by Riverside Park. Officers were ...

Leandro de Souza was once known as “Brazil’s most tattooed man” after getting over 170 inkings Latoya Gayle joined PEOPLE as an Associate Editor in 2024. Her work has previously appeared in The U.S.