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Pricey deworming remedies are being touted as cure-alls. Supermodel Heidi Klum gave it a go – experts roll their eyes ...

In a new study, University of Georgia scientists found hotter temperatures make monarch butterflies more vulnerable to ...

Japanese macaques, colloquially referred to as snow monkeys, famously soak in steaming hot springs during winter. It's easy ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert to clinicians Tuesday, warning that the savage, flesh ...

Doctors should be hypervigilant of any suspected cases of New World Screwworm as the parasitic larva nears the country, the ...

Dog owners are often advised to prevent heartworm infections with drugs called parasiticides, but their widespread use has ...

One Health is a simple but powerful idea: The health of people, animals, and the environment are linked. When one area has a ...

Scabies is a highly infectious disease which is spread through close skin contact. This means if one person becomes infected ...

Officials are still urging people with severely compromised immune systems, infants and some elderly that may be at increased ...

Only a few hours earlier, a shark knocked an 11-year-old boy into the water at Dee Why—just north of Manly—and bit a chunk out of his surfboard. And on Sunday afternoon, a 12-year-old boy was bitten ...