For some, part of their bowel will be removed, and they may have to live with a stoma bag, which collects their faecal waste. While surgery can alleviate the pain, living with a stoma bag isn’t ...

From nematode sex to subjective human experience Starting small has enabled scientists to build a suite of techniques and technologies that have allowed them to lever up to bigger and more complex ...

Nematode communities have been trusted indicators of soil health for decades, but the process of identifying types and numbers in any given soil sample remains costly and time consuming, says Ziad ...

Outbreaks of green longhorn grasshoppers, also known as katydids or bush crickets, were recently reported in several areas across Mpumalanga, including Aerorand, Rondebosch, Kanonkop, Emalahleni, and ...

Colostomy bags, also called stoma bags or ostomy bags, are pouches that collect waste from the body after a colostomy procedure, where a portion of the colon is bypassed and an opening (stoma ...

People have said ‘you look really well’ and you can appear well, but I have had chemotherapy, then radiotherapy, then a temporary stoma. “Then I was booked in for surgery to remove the ...

On April 2, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a sweeping tariff plan which will realign global trade. The announcement – dubbed as “Liberation Day” for America – involves a baseline tariff of 10% ...

Intestinal worms often lead to gastrointestinal symptoms, like diarrhea, because they live in your digestive tract. Other symptoms, such as a skin rash or problems breathing, also can occur, depending ...

Your surgeon will sew the ends of your intestine (bowel) back together. This surgery "reverses" your temporary stoma. Your stoma is the opening in your belly (abdomen) created by your surgeon ...

From a survey of the literature, and his own investigations, the author concludes that these nematodes and insects may be associated in four different ways. (1) Symbiotic association, such species ...

Introduction: Soil transmitted nematodes are impediments to human health and agricultural production. Poor anthelmintic efficiencies, the emergence of resistant strains, and the persistence of ...