It’s a medication technique that many may be reluctant to swallow, but it’s slowly proving to be a valuable tool in treating autoimmune disorders – ingesting the eggs of parasitic worms. The use of ...
Most patients receiving that advice would find another doctor. However, 15 Orlando-area residents have volunteered to be first in line for a clinical study investigating a novel worm treatment for ...
For more than 20 years, scientists have been studying the theory of the hygiene hypothesis – the idea that organisms we might consider dangerous today were actually protecting our immune systems ...
Most patients receiving that advice would find another doctor. However, 15 Orlando-area residents have volunteered to be first in line for a clinical study investigating a novel worm treatment for ...
Of all the things young children put in their mouths, dirt may provoke the most concern among parents fearful that eating it will give kids worms. Although there are reasons not to eat soil, worms may ...
“EAT worms” may be more than a childhood taunt hurled at enemies on the playground. It also may be good advice. Some scientists believe that swallowing a concoction of certain parasites may relieve ...
Most patients receiving that advice would find another doctor. However, 15 Orlando, Fla.-area residents have volunteered to be first in line for a clinical study investigating a novel worm treatment ...
Parasitic worms may be useful in treating lung disease and healing wounds, according to a study published online today (Jan.15) in Nature Medicine. Although far from benign — these intestinal ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Here, swallow these worms. Most patients receiving that advice would find another doctor. However, 15 Orlando-area residents have volunteered to be first in line for a clinical study ...
Hookworms, at home in the small intestine. Do-it-yourself worm therapy as a way to treat autoimmune disorders has become more common in the past decade. Science Picture Co./Science Source In 2007, ...
IF YOU were to draw a world map of severe immune disorders and superimpose it on a map of infections with parasitic worms called helminths, you would see a very clear pattern. Where immune disorders ...
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