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Here’s What Your Dog’s Poop Is Trying to Tell You About Their Health
Nobody looks forward to scooping poop, but your dog’s daily deposit holds more information than you might think. That humble ...
Man's body crawling with parasitic worms after infected kidney transplant at US hospital
A second transplant patient also became infected, leading their doctors to surmise that their new kidneys were likely to ...
AI microscopy can improve parasite detection in health care
A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that artificial intelligence (AI) combined with portable digital microscopy improves the detection of intestinal worm infections, so-called ...
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AI Microscopy Boosts Parasite Detection in Health Care
A new study from Karolinska Institutet, shows that artificial intelligence (AI) combined with portable digital microscopy ...
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B.C. researcher helps discover new drug-resistant West African parasitic worm
"The discovery was made in a West African parasite population during a study led by Dr. Abhinaya Venkatesan, a researcher at ...
Man’s health crashes after getting donated kidney—it was riddled with worms
But in the immunosuppressed, it can cause a deadly hyperinfection syndrome, with the worms going through accelerating and ...
Kidney transplant turns dangerous after parasite found in donor organ
A kidney transplant intended to save a 61-year-old man's life turned perilous due to an undetected parasitic roundworm. The infection, traced back to ...
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FDA approves all-in-one screening test for three intestinal parasites - Healio
The FDA has granted 510 (k) marketing clearance to TechLab’s Tri-Combo Parasite Screen test, an all-in-one test for Giardia, Cryptosporidium, and Entamoeba histolytica, the three most common ...
2 women diagnosed with colon cancer in their 30s share their symptoms that were missed
Brooks Bell and Sarah Beran were diagnosed with colon cancer in their 30s. Their doctors initially thought they hemorrhoids ...