Research from Harvard found that gender-affirming surgeries for minors are rare — and usually involve chest reduction for ...

The extreme investigators at How to Survive examine tapeworm infections and reveal how these parasites can invade the human body.

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A tapeworm fundamentally changes the lives of ants: Workers of the species Temnothorax nylanderi infected with the tapeworm Anomotaenia brevis live several times longer than their uninfected nestmates ...

The researchers found evidence that the parasite alters existing biological programs in the ant. For the tapeworm, this change could be advantageous, as the ants serve as intermediate hosts. The ...

Workers at The Citadel are continuing to sift soil slowly on hot summer days to remove human remains found in possibly 54 19th century gravesites on the eastside of Johnson Hagood Stadium, according ...

The New England Journal of Medicine ©2026. During surgery to repair a hernia in a 71-year-old man's right groin, his doctors discovered something unexpected: a tapeworm. The surgeons fished the ...

July 9 (UPI) --A humanoid robot successfully assisted during a laparoscopic surgery for a gall bladder removal, suggesting that robots may serve a purpose in some health care scenarios. The operation, ...

The death of a red fox kit in Pullman this May confirms what scientists have long suspected: A species of deadly tapeworm has made itself at home in Washington. “We’ve known it’s been around,” said ...

A dangerous parasite that can spread to humans has been spotted in Washington, according to a Washington State University laboratory team. The fox tapeworm (Echinococcus multilocularis) was discovered ...

From ancient graves to stories of survival on the frontier, signs of human flesh-eating turn stomachs, even as they raise questions. Anthropologists have uncovered bones cut up with axes and ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University (WSU) announced on Tuesday that pathologists at the university’s Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory had detected a potentially dangerous parasite in ...