Personalized medicine refers to making decisions about treatment that are optimized to a specific individual, often as a result of their genetics. Given genetic-related advances, such as sequencing ...

The human race is riddled with worms. They coil and squirm and chew through most of the world’s population. When the average man dies, a host of worms dies with him. But wormkind goes wriggling on, to ...

Europe’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion for ivermectin-albendazole to treat soil-transmitted helminth infections, including the neglected tropical ...

Researchers have uncovered why some intestinal worm infections become chronic in animal models, which could eventually lead to human vaccines and improved treatments. Parasitic worms, also called ...