If you need some motivation to keep from eating too much this Thanksgiving, here it is: Doctors in Romania pulled an 11 cm (4 ...

It literally made his skin crawl. A sewer worker in Spain had the internet gagging after he showed up at the hospital with worms squirming about under his skin, as detailed in the New England Journal ...

When a woman in Russia noticed a small lump under her left eye, she snapped a selfie to document the unusual bulge. Then, something even stranger happened: The lump moved. In a series of selfies, the ...

Doctors removed a four-inch parasitic worm from a woman’s eyelid after it burrowed into her forehead and grew there for a ...

It sounds like a scene straight out of a nightmare. It all starts with a bite from a mosquito that's carrying the worm's larvae, says Natalia Pshenichnaya, a physician who studies infectious diseases ...

Threadworms spend up to 10 minutes exploring human skin before finding the best place to burrow in. When a specific dopamine signal is blocked, the worms almost completely stop trying to penetrate the ...

Doctors in Spain diagnosed a man with an unusual roundworm infection after watching an army of larvae writhe and slither under his skin, blanketing his whole body in an ever-shifting rash. Doctors ...

And once it's there, it moves around. And around. There's a new report on the worm out this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. It sounds like a scene straight out of a nightmare. One morning ...