Imagine returning from a dream vacation, only to find yourself battling a mysterious illness that leaves doctors baffled. For ...

Severe burning sensations and confusion were later attributed to rat lungworm, which is often transmitted through snails and slugs, a case study revealed.

Doctors were baffled. It was the start of a medical mystery that’s the subject of a New England Journal of Medicine case study this month. In an 11-page paper published February 12, doctors at ...

A New England woman thought she was just dealing with jet lag after an extended vacation, but medical experts later diagnosed her symptoms as an infection from brain worms.

Symptoms usually begin as headache, nausea, vomiting and fever, but then can spread to neurological symptoms after the ...

Nematodes have oily surfaces that impact survival and interactions, offering insights into evolution and parasite control. A ...

MIT engineers building humanoid machines equipped with AI brains they hope will one day undertake mundane domestic chores ...

By fusing different human organoids, researchers have created “mini-brains” containing most of the cell types found in fetal ...

In most cases, the rash from a wandering worm is in a foot, ankle, thigh, or rear—basically from a person walking or sitting ...

A woman developed an array of symptoms shortly after returning from a vacation, and parasites turned out to be the culprit.

A 30-year-old woman from New England contracted brain worms during a vacation to Hawaii, Thailand, and Japan. Her symptoms ...