The experiment was a striking attempt to investigate weight control. For six weeks, a group of mice gorged on lard-enriched mouse chow, then scientists infected the mice with worms. The worms wriggled ...

A live six-inch worm has been taken out from the brain of a 23-year-old Chinese woman after she suffered from severe headaches. Revolting footage shows the white parasite wiggling in a bowl after it ...

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Neha was lucky the worms had not travelled to her brain which could have caused her serious problems, medics said DOCTORS have removed 150 ten-inch long worms from a woman’s stomach after she suffered ...

In what scientists are calling a world first, a 3-inch worm was found alive after doctors performed surgery on the brain of an Australian woman. The worm was pulled from a 64-year-old woman last year, ...

It started as a fairly normal visit to the hospital. A 17-year-old boy in Peru's capital, Lima, was complaining of swelling to his eye when doctors at the National Children's Hospital discovered ...

Sushi, poke and other similar dishes have gained a reputation as a risky food group, where even the most prized cuts can come with an unwelcome garnish: parasites. By nature of their uncooked ...

A North Korean soldier who was shot five times and seriously wounded while defecting had "an enormous number" of parasitic worms in his body, said a medic who operated on him, according to media ...

A bear was spotted outside the Guilderland Public Library on Tuesday, June 19, 2018, in Guilderland, N.Y. (Courtesy/Amy McCarthy) A young porcupine rests over the hiking trail near Mill Brook in the ...

Here’s a tip: Let worms eat your garbage. When they do, they transform food scraps into a rich, organic fertilizer called worm castings that your plants will love. It could even turn into a fun ...