Parasitic infections happen when parasites enter a human or animal body, taking nutrients from the body for themselves.

One type of intestinal parasite that may be increasing is often found in sushi. The fact that more cases are occurring in developed areas doesn’t mean that more fish are infected.

Brooks Bell and Sarah Beran were diagnosed with colon cancer in their 30s. Their doctors initially thought they hemorrhoids ...

Intestinal parasites such as tapeworms, hookworms and a protist called Blastocystis can be beneficial to human health, according to a new paper that argues we should rethink our views of ...

Intestinal parasites in the environment can be very difficult to eradicate and can often continue to expose our kiddos, affecting them over and over again.

She found eggs from four intestinal parasites in six of those samples: whipworm, beef/pork tapeworm, roundworm, and pinworm. It's the earliest record of roundworm and pinworm in ancient Israel.

"Intestinal parasite infections, like those caused by parasitic worms, were common in the United States throughout our history," Tara Cepon-Robins, an associate professor of Anthropology at UCCS ...

But a recent study published in the International Journal of Paleopathology says that, at least when it comes to intestinal parasites, the friars may have been worse off. Dr. Piers Mitchell runs the ...