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Doctors In China Remove 60 Live Worms From Woman's Eyes
Doctors in China recently extracted more than 60 live worms from a patient's eyes during a ghastly operation.
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Live Parasitic Worm Found In Australian Woman's Brain In World-First Discovery
The Ophidascaris robertsi roundworm was pulled from the 64-year-old woman after brain surgery, still alive and wriggling.
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Hydrogel-Based Armour Developed for Worms to Carry Cancer Drugs to Tumours
Scientists have discovered ways to fit worms in hydrogel suits that allow them to carry cancer drugs to tumours. Researchers from Osaka University found that coating nematodes in a hydrogel-based sheath can allow scientists to make the worms carry various kinds of cargo, including cancer drugs that can be directly reach to cancerous cells.
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Doctor Removes 20 Live Worms From Man's Eye
In a stomach-churning incident, a doctor in China removed 20 live worms from a man's eye.
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She Went To Doctors With Sore Throat. They Found Live Worm In Her Tonsils
When a woman in Japan went to doctors complaining of a sore throat, she was probably expecting some medication for a common cold. Instead, doctors found a live worm in her tonsils.
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An Artist Found A Parasitic Worm In His Eye - And Turned It Into Art
The painting was not an image of anything in particular, just an abstract confluence of psychedelic colors and wormlike patterns inside a perfectly round circle. Ben Taylor didn't like it much, and he said he didn't know why he painted it. But the wormlike patterns represent years of spiraling into unknown illness that had driven the 47-year-old pa...
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Blemishes On Her Face Kept Moving. It Was A Parasitic Worm Under Her Skin
First, it appeared as a tiny blemish under the eye. But over the next two weeks, the 32-year-old woman watched it move - snapping photos as it formed bumps above her eye before it made its way down into her lip, forcing her mouth to swell. It was a parasite - and it was living inside her face.
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North Korean Defector's Diet And Parasites Hint At Hard Life In The Country
Parasitic worms found in a North Korean soldier, critically injured during a desperate defection, highlight nutrition and hygiene problems that experts say have plagued the isolated country for decades.
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Love Sushi? Eating Raw Fish May Put You at Risk of Parasite Infection
The raw fish that is used in sushi may have parasites such as tiny worms that can reside in the human gut and cause serious health hazards, say researchers.
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Still Fighting: Vietnam Vets Seek Help for Rare Cancer
Hundreds of veterans who have been diagnosed with a rare bile duct cancer that may be linked to their time in the service and an unexpected source: parasites in raw or poorly cooked river fish.
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After Dinosaur, Fish And Spider, Now A Parasite Named After Obama
Researchers in the US have named a new parasite after US President Barack Obama -- and there's no worming out of it.
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'Elephantiasis' Virus May Boost AIDS Risk: Study
People infected with a common parasitic worm may be twice as likely to acquire the HIV virus that causes AIDS, a field study from Tanzania reported Wednesday.
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Parasitic Worms May Hold Key To Cutting Spread Of HIV: Researchers
A parasitic worm which affects millions of the world's poorest people may hold an important but little-known key to cutting the spread of HIV, researchers said ahead of a conference on the issue in London.
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WHO Hails National Deworming Day Initiative By India
Lauding India's National Deworming Day initiative, which was observed on Wednesday, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said it would go a long way in improving the health of children as well as that of the country.
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This Parasitic Worm Appears to Boost Female Fertility
The Tsimane women of Bolivia are often revered as among the most fertile in the world - on average having 10 children in their lifetimes - but some are even more fertile than others.
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Doctors In China Remove 60 Live Worms From Woman's Eyes
Doctors in China recently extracted more than 60 live worms from a patient's eyes during a ghastly operation.
-
Live Parasitic Worm Found In Australian Woman's Brain In World-First Discovery
The Ophidascaris robertsi roundworm was pulled from the 64-year-old woman after brain surgery, still alive and wriggling.
-
Hydrogel-Based Armour Developed for Worms to Carry Cancer Drugs to Tumours
Scientists have discovered ways to fit worms in hydrogel suits that allow them to carry cancer drugs to tumours. Researchers from Osaka University found that coating nematodes in a hydrogel-based sheath can allow scientists to make the worms carry various kinds of cargo, including cancer drugs that can be directly reach to cancerous cells.
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Doctor Removes 20 Live Worms From Man's Eye
In a stomach-churning incident, a doctor in China removed 20 live worms from a man's eye.
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She Went To Doctors With Sore Throat. They Found Live Worm In Her Tonsils
When a woman in Japan went to doctors complaining of a sore throat, she was probably expecting some medication for a common cold. Instead, doctors found a live worm in her tonsils.
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An Artist Found A Parasitic Worm In His Eye - And Turned It Into Art
The painting was not an image of anything in particular, just an abstract confluence of psychedelic colors and wormlike patterns inside a perfectly round circle. Ben Taylor didn't like it much, and he said he didn't know why he painted it. But the wormlike patterns represent years of spiraling into unknown illness that had driven the 47-year-old pa...
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Blemishes On Her Face Kept Moving. It Was A Parasitic Worm Under Her Skin
First, it appeared as a tiny blemish under the eye. But over the next two weeks, the 32-year-old woman watched it move - snapping photos as it formed bumps above her eye before it made its way down into her lip, forcing her mouth to swell. It was a parasite - and it was living inside her face.
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North Korean Defector's Diet And Parasites Hint At Hard Life In The Country
Parasitic worms found in a North Korean soldier, critically injured during a desperate defection, highlight nutrition and hygiene problems that experts say have plagued the isolated country for decades.
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Love Sushi? Eating Raw Fish May Put You at Risk of Parasite Infection
The raw fish that is used in sushi may have parasites such as tiny worms that can reside in the human gut and cause serious health hazards, say researchers.
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Still Fighting: Vietnam Vets Seek Help for Rare Cancer
Hundreds of veterans who have been diagnosed with a rare bile duct cancer that may be linked to their time in the service and an unexpected source: parasites in raw or poorly cooked river fish.
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After Dinosaur, Fish And Spider, Now A Parasite Named After Obama
Researchers in the US have named a new parasite after US President Barack Obama -- and there's no worming out of it.
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'Elephantiasis' Virus May Boost AIDS Risk: Study
People infected with a common parasitic worm may be twice as likely to acquire the HIV virus that causes AIDS, a field study from Tanzania reported Wednesday.
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Parasitic Worms May Hold Key To Cutting Spread Of HIV: Researchers
A parasitic worm which affects millions of the world's poorest people may hold an important but little-known key to cutting the spread of HIV, researchers said ahead of a conference on the issue in London.
-
WHO Hails National Deworming Day Initiative By India
Lauding India's National Deworming Day initiative, which was observed on Wednesday, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said it would go a long way in improving the health of children as well as that of the country.
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This Parasitic Worm Appears to Boost Female Fertility
The Tsimane women of Bolivia are often revered as among the most fertile in the world - on average having 10 children in their lifetimes - but some are even more fertile than others.
