A toddler was rushed to a hospital in Indonesia after not passing bowels in three days, which left him bloated. Doctors at ...

A 3-year-old boy from Indonesia had to undergo emergency intestinal surgery after vomiting live worms — the shocking result ...

MEDICS were shocked to learn a little boy’s constipation was in fact dozens of worms blocking his digestive tract. The ...

Ascariasis (roundworm) is the most prevalent helminth infection in the world. Beyond the intestinal form of ascariasis, little is known about the impact of Ascaris larval migration through lung tissue ...

Sarah Williams-Blangero and colleagues from Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research show that genes on chromosomes 1 and 13 are significant for the human infection with the roundworm Ascaris ...

The Ascaris roundworm leads to an infection called aschariasis that kills an estimated 4,500 people a year, according to a 2013 study. The WHO notes that the infection takes place in people's ...

Albendazole is an antihelminthic drug prescribed for treating a variety of parasitic worm infestations such as ascariasis, filariasis or roundworm disease, giardiasis, trichuriasis, pinworm ...