The second school within weeks has confirmed its cases to CornwallLive ...

Camborne Science & International Academy in Cornwall has confirmed a recent outbreak of scabies - it is the second school in the county to confirm cases in less than three weeks ...

Almost everyone carries microscopic mites on their skin. They live inside pores and hair follicles, feeding on skin oils and ...

Ayeesha and her brother were confined naked in the toilet for months before her death, malnourished and eating their own ...

It pleaded guilty to 18 offences amounting to more than 500 separate sewage spills into South West waterways ...

Humans were not designed for space. Ironically, because we insist on going there anyway, scientists now know from studying astronauts that the lack of Earth’s gravity can wreak health havoc, such as ...

The CDC describes rat lungworm as a parasite found in rats, whose larvae are shed in rat feces and then taken up by snails ...

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

A 58-year-old woman in Greece appears to hold the record for growing a parasitic sheep bot fly in her nose the longest, ...

Just in case you needed new material for your nightmares, here’s this real-life case report of a woman in Greece who literally sneezed out maggots. Doctors documented the spine-chilling sneeze this ...

If confirmed in people, the finding might lead to gut-targeted therapies that could reverse cognitive decline.