If blood is in your ureters or urethra long enough to start clotting, it’s possible it will come out in a worm-like shape. However, this is very rare. Having blood in your urine, called hematuria, ...

Botox (Botulinum A toxin) stops your nerves from telling your muscles to tighten (contract). Botox is a popular cosmetic procedure, but providers also use it to treat other medical conditions, ...

Playing in water is a kid’s haven, no matter where they are in the world. But in some countries, children may get infections around bodies of freshwater, including an infection called schistosomiasis.

Billions worldwide are infected with tropical worms. Unsurprisingly, most of these people live in poor countries, kept poor by the effects of worm-related malnourishment. What may surprise many is ...

A Japanese firm has released a new early detection kit for a variety of cancers that uses urine-sniffing roundworms to detect cancerous odors, NHK reported. Hirotsu Bio Science claims that their ...

Your urinary bladder is a balloon-shaped organ that stores urine from the kidneys until it’s released through the urethra. The bladder is located in the pelvic cavity between the pelvic bones. It can ...

Neurogenic bladder is when a problem in your brain, spinal cord, or central nervous system makes you lose control of your bladder. You may pee too much or too little. You could have symptoms of both ...

A parasite that infects millions across Africa may quietly prime the cervix for cancer — and, surprisingly, a standard treatment for the infection could amplify that risk, new research hints.

A therapy derived from the eggs of parasitic worms helps to protect against one of chemotherapy's debilitating side effects by significantly downregulating major proinflammatory pathways and reducing ...