Gastroenterologist Dr. Joseph Salhab warns that many "parasite cleanses" promoted online are ineffective, often consisting of ...

Cats can carry a parasite in their feces that causes a disease called toxoplasmosis in humans — here's how to stay safe.

Entamoeba histolytica infects nearly 50 million people each year and kills around 70,000. It’s a shape-shifting parasite that invades the human gut, often causing mild symptoms like diarrhea. But in ...

Demodex mites are microscopic, which may be why your doctor was skeptical that you had seen one. And because they are so common, anything less than an overgrowth that is leading to symptoms would ...

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

The United States has reported its first human case of New World screwworm, according to its Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The flesh-eating parasite usually eats cattle and other warm ...

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

Rajshekhar Gaji was staring at something that should not exist. Under his microscope, parasites that should have been ...

_Toxoplasma_ can infiltrate the reproductive system. wildpixel/iStock via Getty Images Plus I am a microbiologist, and my lab studies Toxoplasma. This new study bolsters emerging findings that ...

Male fertility rates have been plummeting over the past half-century. An analysis from 1992 noted a steady decrease in sperm counts and quality since the 1940s. A more recent study found that male ...