Some parasites "turn down" the host's immune response, and evidence suggests that helminth infection can help patients suffering from allergies, asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Evolving understanding of the role of helminths in the pathogenesis of autoimmunity has led to the development of novel therapeutic interventions that are showing promise in patients with ...

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, ...

This article is more than 9 years old. Training and maintaining balanced immune function, a corollary of their effort to resist expulsion from the body. Helping maintain diverse, beneficial microbiota ...

Parasitic hookworm therapy had no significant benefit on MRI in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), the phase II WIRMS trial showed. However, about half of hookworm-treated participants and a ...

Back in the bad old Stone Age, humans had to put up with all sorts of creepy crawlies. Parasites ran amok in people’s innards, freeloading on nutrient supplies. The parasites took a toll, but over the ...

A few years ago, a 35-year-old man in California had extensive ulcers in his colon. He was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory bowel disease, and doctors recommended removing part of ...

Treatment with hookworm larvae was well tolerated in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), and although the primary outcome was not met there was some evidence of a beneficial therapeutic effect in ...

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