Below you find a set of links (not a comprehensive or authoritative list) to help you get started with your research. we strongly recommend that you use this page only as a starting point in your own research. There is now too much information available on the web to allow us to give you a comprehensive and up to date list of sites, news and science available as it is increasing every day.

You can also chat to people using ours and Ovamed's therapy on various groups around the internet. Ovamed maintains a moderated discussion group at ovamed.org, the link is about half-way down on the left side.

There are also some groups on Yahoo devoted to this subject. One such is here:

Another group is available at a new site devoted to the subject of helminthic therapy, here. The offer a lot of sicence and links, as well as a discussion forum with categories for all the diseases. Good stuff.

Links to Media Reports

Medical News Today: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=58994

Nice paper with good epidemiology and summary of the hygiene hypothesis: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=58994

Tufts University, a great summary of the idea: http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/winter2007/features/good-worms.html

An article from a British newspaper (Guardian/Observer): http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1702692,00.html

A BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1632863.stm

An Australian news site: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/health/HealthRepublish_406170.htm

And one from New Zealand: http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3412/features/4783/the_worm_returns.html

One regarding MS and the Hygiene Hypothesis: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070117091058.htm

Competitors

Ovamed: http://www.ovamed.de/english/home/home.html

Links to Online Medical Journals, etc.
(to read more than a summary of research papers published online often requires a paid subscription to the site, or one must pay for the individual paper, usually about $30 US)

We apologise, but we can not legally offer reprints of scientific papers. But please use the search tools listed below to find and read extracts or summaries of the articles for free. We recommend paying for a few key article if you are interested and have access to a medical dictionary or a friend who speaks the language to translate them.

NCBI Entrez: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed

Blackwell Synergy (another good source for some free research): http://www.blackwell-synergy.com

The British Medical Journal (they do offer a free individual member ship for six months): http://www.bmj.com/

The Lancet: http://www.thelancet.com/

The New England Journal of Medicine: http://content.nejm.org/search.dtl

Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/