Discovery Could Help Stem Infections Of Parasitic Roundworms

Sunday, August 16, 2009 - 22:21 in Health & Medicine

Biologists have discovered how a Chinese drug effective in killing parasitic roundworms works. Their discovery of the drug's biological mechanism provides important new information about how to combat parasitic roundworms, which infect more than a billion people in tropical regions and are one of the leading causes of debilitation in underdeveloped countries.

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