Should global government and philanthropic aid be invested in large public health deworming programs in low- and middle-income countries? Doctors know intestinal helminths can be unpleasant, but ...

Over the last decade, it's become clearer than ever that bacteria in the human gut-- collectively termed the microbiome--play a key role in health and disease. Now, researchers have shown that a ...

Neglected tropical diseases, or NTDs, are a group of chronic, debilitating, communicable diseases that predominantly affect those living in poverty in developing countries in Latin America, Africa and ...

A combination of methods, including mathematical model construction, demographic plus epidemiological data analysis and parameter estimation, are used to examine whether mass drug administration (MDA) ...

PATH announced today they received a grant from Japan's Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund to develop a new oral treatment option for soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections. PATH's ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that artificial intelligence (AI) combined with portable digital microscopy improves the detection of intestinal worm infections, so-called ...

The novel drug, a fixed-dose combination of albendazole and ivermectin, seeks to offer a better tool against soil-transmitted helminths and help endemic countries reach the control goals set in WHO's ...

For two billion people around the planet, anemia, weakness and malaise are part of daily life. These symptoms are part of living with soil-transmitted helminths – more commonly known as intestinal ...

Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths are neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), but these parasitic worm infections can lead to anemia, malnutrition, and learning difficulties among children.

Health experts warn of rising worm infections in young children and encourage parents to follow six-monthly deworming schedules.