Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging war to eliminate an ancient parasite plaguing the world's poorest people. Rarely fatal but searingly painful and ...

In the bustling city of Beijing, China, a 41-year-old woman would leave her home shared with her pet cat and head to work in an office. But in the summer of 2022, her day was interrupted by the ...

Here’s something to remind you that things could always be worse. A case study this month documents a man whose eye became infested with a parasitic worm. Doctors in India detailed the real-life body ...

FILE - Carter Center intern Sarah Ellis Peed helps assemble medical kits to fight Guinea worm disease at a warehouse in Atlanta, Wednesday, July 28, 2004. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File) JARWENG, South ...

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