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 ...

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, ...

A parasitic worm was found wriggling in the brain of a 64-year-old Australian woman suffering from a "mystery illness," a neurosurgeon said on Tuesday. Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi discovered the 3-inch ...

When an Indian man asked a doctor to examine his irritated eye, the doctor discovered the man had a little squirming company. A 15-cm parasite was swimming about around the fellow’s eyeball, and the ...