Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the potential to save many lives.

A positive newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is currently considered a medical emergency. Without early treatment, severe disability or death in infancy are likely. However, research ...

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There was a very strange tradition back in history where people used frogs to correctly identify if a patient was pregnant – ...

Experts agree that both treatment and prevention are essential. "Deworming drugs eliminate existing parasites, but without ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an 82-year old man who was in good health until I found out that I have an issue in my left kidney. My ...

Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley grilled a doctor who dodged questions about whether men could get pregnant during a Wednesday hearing. Dr. Nisha Verma, a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive ...

A medical reaction video where a doctor analyzes a dramatic case (often from the show Monsters Inside Me) concerning a patient suffering from a parasitic infection where a worm is visibly located ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — A doctor is facing multiple felony charges after he was accused of forcing a pregnant woman to take abortion pills. Dr. Hassan Abbas, 32, a surgical resident at the University of Toledo ...

Researchers wanted to quantify how much charge a jumping parasitic roundworm needed to latch on to its fruit fly host.Credit...By Victor M. Ortega-Jimenez Supported by By Alexa Robles-Gil For small ...

For most expecting mothers, pregnancy means preparing for new life. But for one South Florida doctor, it also meant fighting for her own. In 2019, Dr. Christina Ortega, a neuropsychologist at Joe ...

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and biologists at Emory and Berkeley. By generating opposite charges, the worm and ...