Ivermectin is an antiparasitic agent, and its potential as an anticancer agent has recently attracted increasing attention.

A new study sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases in cattle and other animals establishes long-term infections in hosts.

Researchers found that Toxoplasma gondii increased the host cell’s metabolic activity, offering insights into potential ...

Living with a cat can have a profound – and sometimes surprising – effect on our physical and mental health. Still, living ...

Next-generation metagenomic sequencing test developed at UCSF proves its effectiveness in quickly diagnosing almost any kind ...

Lice infestation is a common issue, particularly among children. Where do lice originate, and how can they be eliminated?

Most of us do it, be it romantic, familial, friendly or formal, but kissing among humans and where and how it originated is ...

This rudimentary snogging, he says, would have been part of a routine grooming session in our ancestors. As the primate doing ...

Richard Gerhold, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVM (Parasitology), associate professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, discusses some ways that humans can help com ...

The term parasitoid describes an organism that spends its development as a parasite and eventually kills its host ... fly ...