NewsDesk @bactiman63 Los Angeles County Veterinary Public Health reports 11 cases of canine schistosomiasis (the liver trematode, Heterobilharzia americana) in dogs from 3 Southern California counties:...

On behalf of patients and families impacted by cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer), the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation congratulates AstraZeneca and its positive results from the TOPAZ-1 Phase III trial....

Earlier this week, Congressman Lee Zeldin (R, NY-1) was joined by Representatives Andrew Garbarino (R, NY-2) and Tom Suozzi (D, NY-3) in reintroducing the Vietnam Veterans Liver Fluke Cancer Study Act,...

In Long Island last week, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer revealed that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is about to launch a major study on ‘toxins.’ But what Schumer pointed out is that Long...

Almost 15 years after first proposing programs of mass drug administration – now referred to by the World Health Organization as ‘preventive chemotherapy’ – to treat or prevent seven neglected...

Novartis announced this week the approval of Egaten® (triclabendazole) by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of fascioliasis in patients six years of age and older. Egaten is...

Clonorchiasis, a neglected tropical disease usually acquired by eating undercooked freshwater fish, affects an estimated 15 million people around the globe. More than 85% of cases are concentrated in China....

Veteran’s Day prompted a flurry of stories on bile duct cancer, or chlolangiocarcinoma and Vietnam veterans after the Associated Press discovered hundreds of patients in recent decades and the large...

Researchers have found that an increase in incidence of liver cancer in north-east Thailand is linked to a raw fish delicacy called koi pla, according to a BBC report. Koi pla is made from small fish...