POLICE in the USA have charged a former employee at the Harvard Medical School morgue with selling human remains from donated bodies.
According to court documents, the alleged offender was part of a "massive nationwide network" which traded in body parts stolen from the facility.
Between 2018 and 2022 he and his wife conspired to dismember the cadavers and sell items on demand via social media platforms, accepting payments amounting to thousands of dollars on PayPal.
Heads, brains, bones and skin were all sought after by some of the purchasers, with prosecutor Gerard M. Karam from the Middle District of Pennsylvania saying "some crimes defy understanding".
Forget medication - managing inflammatory bowel disease could involve being infected with hookworms, according to a New Zealand research team.
The Malaghan Institute of Medical Research has for some years been looking at the potential therapeutic benefits of human hookworms in patients suffering from allergic and inflammatory diseases.
A pilot study has found the parasites were well tolerated, safe and long-lasting in patients with ulcerative colitis in remission, paving the way for wider clinical studies.
A paper in the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases journal concludes that one-day treatment could be as simple as "infect and forget".
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