A woman returned from a three-week vacation and started noticing a strange burning sensation in her legs. She visited multiple doctors until being diagnosed with "rat lungworm," a parasite spread by ...

In Europe alone, approximately 2 million people live with chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), and their incidence has ...

Researchers have made a breakthrough in the development of 'life-like' synthetic materials which are able to move by themselves like worms. Scientists have been investigating a new class of materials ...

In a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors explain how they figured out the source of her fiery symptoms—worms burrowing into her brain. By this point, she was alert ...