A 38-year-old man suffered for about twenty days from symptoms attributed to a cold: a runny nose and a strange sensation in ...
Although it's unclear why it's so, scientists at Johns Hopkins have linked a gene that allows for the chemical breakdown of the tough, protective casing that houses insects and worms to the severe ...
Tiny magnetic bots that are activated by light can clear bacterial infections deep in the sinus cavities, then be expelled by blowing out the nose. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech ...
It took a few months, but a Florida man finally found out what was bugging him. Jacksonville doctors removed 150 live bugs in the larva stage from the nose and sinuses of a cancer survivor earlier ...
Oestrus ovis, a cosmopolitan dipteran parasite commonly known as the sheep nose botfly, is responsible for oestrosis in small ruminants and ophthalmomyiasis in humans. In sheep and goats, the larvae ...
"The epithelial cells lining the nasal and sinus cavities play an important role as first responders of the immune system," he says. "But when they are distracted fighting non-existent parasites, they ...