An example of a beneficial ectoparasite is the leech, which is making a comeback in medical circles for its anticoagulant properties and other medicinal uses as related in this article from the BBC News. According to...

Health care journalism is a rapidly growing field, and the California HealthCare Foundation's Center for Health Reporting is a new venture of note in this area. The Center is based out of the USC Annenberg School for...

The University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Entomology Department offers an introduction to chiggers on this site. Information includes and introduction to what chiggers look like, what and how they feed, personal...

In the past few years, there have been more reports of bacteria that are increasingly resilient to antibiotics. Understandably, this antibiotic resistance is of great concern to the medical community in terms of public...

The mission of the monthly newsletter, Congenital Cardiology Today (CCT), "is to provide reliable and timely information on devices and procedures, patient therapy, drug therapy, supporting technologies, products and...