Lesley Stubbings, independent consultant and Scops spokesperson, said there are three flukicide groups: Triclabendazole – This is the only treatment that kills immature liver fluke, from two days in ...

The heat only travels a short distance, so it doesn’t generally affect the rest of your liver tissue. You usually have the needles through your skin into the tumour. This is called percutaneous ...

and regular monitoring is the only way to know if – and when – treatment is needed. He said: "An example of this variability can be seen with liver fluke. "Deaths caused by acute fluke infection were ...

These include blood sucking leeches and liver fluke worms which are a challenge ... to farmers due to loss of productivity, mortality and treatment costs.Leeches belong to the phylum Annelida ...

Some treatments for diabetes such as metformin may reduce the ... This might be due to genetic or shared environmental factors. Liver flukes are infections caused by parasites. These infections can ...