The secret to tackling one of the United States’ most deadly chronic diseases may reside thousands of miles away in the ...

Tens of millions of people in Africa are infected by parasitic worms that cause lymphatic filariasis (also called elephantiasis), a disease that leads to severe swelling and deformities of the limbs ...

The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years ...

A recent clinical trial finds the anti-parasitic drug moxidectin -- currently approved to treat river blindness, another tropical disease caused by parasitic worms -- is also more effective for ...