David Pritchard and Jasper Lawrence did something disgusting: They purposely infected themselves with hookworms. Pritchard, a British immunologist-biologist, did so to test a medical theory. Lawrence, ...

Immunotherapy refers to therapy that is given to induce, improve, or suppress the immune system in an effort to treat certain diseases. One experimental form of immunotherapy is the treatment of ...

Helminthic therapy involves intentionally infecting a person with soil-transmitted parasites, like hookworms or whipworms. This therapy is used in some countries to treat certain conditions like Crohn ...

Tired of suffering from Crohn’s disease, Michael, a 31-year-old financial planner from New York City, turned to a last resort – an underground network of "worm pushers" in cyberspace. Michael, who ...

Would you eat worms or their larvae to help cure what ails you? Helminthic therapy – the deliberate ingestion of a controlled number of live parasitic roundworms called helminths – is gaining ...

Worms? Stents? Bee stings? Patients with multiple sclerosis who exhaust conventional therapies are turning in desperation to unproven approaches. In January 2006, Jasper Lawrence was trudging through ...

Objective: To study anthropometric status, anaemia and intestinal helminthic infections of schoolchildren living in better and worse socio-economic and environmental conditions in the Sanliurfa ...

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