Threadworms are very common. Nearly half of all children under the age of ten and many adults have threadworms at some time often without realising as the infection usually causes no symptoms ...

USC researchers have found evidence of threadworm (scientific name: Strongyloides stercoralis) in South Carolina in two different studies. Their research, which was published in The American Journal ...

Threadworms, which are a type of parasitic nematode, spend a lot of time crawling around on human skin, poking and prodding to find the best place for entry before burrowing in. But disrupting a ...

Whole villages in southern Mexico are threatened with mass blindness as an obscure disease sweeps the tropical, coffee-growing state of Chiapas. Thus far Government sanitary brigades have only sized ...

Egg prices have soared to new records over the last couple of months. The wholesale price for a dozen white eggs climbed to over $8 in February. Since then, that price has dropped but the prices ...

These heat-treated eggs are often touted as a safeguard against foodborne illnesses like salmonella. Here’s everything you need to know when using them in recipes. With headlines of bird flu and egg ...

Globally, over 600 million people are infected with the skin-penetrating threadworm, Strongyloides stercoralis, mostly in tropical and subtropical regions with poor sanitation infrastructure.

Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

Folks who have eggs on their shopping list ahead of Thanksgiving could be in for a rude awakening. An egg shortage is leading to empty shelves at many grocery stores across the country. Shoppers in ...

This eggs-pert wasn’t yolk-ing around. Harvard medical student, Dr. Nick Norwitz ate 720 eggs in a month to study the effects the “fowl” diet had on his cholesterol and saw that his levels dropped ...