Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Cheryl Kennedy of Chicago went to fill a pinworm prescription for her 4-year-old daughter, she was astounded to learn that ...

When parents first notice their kids have a pinworm infection, they usually flip. "It freaks parents out," says Dr. Kristin Bencik-Boudreau, a pediatrician at Bayshore Pediatrics, a primary care ...

Emverm (mebendazole; Impax) chewable tablets are available for the treatment of pinworm, whipworm, common roundworm, common hookworm, and American hookworm in single or mixed infections. It is ...

Hi Dr Ombeva My child has pinworms and is not responding to albendazoles, which medication can I use to get rid of the worms? Dear Betty Pinworms also called Enterobius vermicularis or seatworms or ...

A common pinworm medication may stop and reverse cancer growth in Merkel cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer, according to research led by University of Arizona Cancer Center researchers ...

Children share all kinds of things when they go back to school – books, pencils, stories from summer vacation and, unfortunately, pesky and sometimes dangerous parasites that rely on close contact ...

Generic drugs used for other conditions are being given a second look as cancer treatments. (Katherine Streeter for NPR) Cancer researchers are testing whether a generic drug that has been used for ...

Pinworms! Just the thought of them can provoke discomfort and anxiety. But many people who carry pinworms have no symptoms and rarely suffer any ill effects. Even when a pinworm infection does cause ...

Carson Farias, the 14-year-old boy killed while riding his electric dirt bike on Sandridge Road Community gathers to remember Carson Farias, 14-year-old killed in Clay County e-bike crash Read full ...