In 2012, 15 researchers from a range of medical fields tried to wipe a disease off the face of the earth with a stroke of the pen. The team, brought together by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Bay Area researchers are beginning the first major U.S. study into a mystery disease known for its frightening symptoms - among them, open sores and unidentifiable objects poking out of the skin - ...

Imagine your body pocked by erupting sores. The sensation of little bugs crawling all over you. And worst of all, mysterious red and blue fibers sprouting from your skin. It may sound like a macabre ...

A major new study of the straight-out-of-science-fiction syndrome known as Morgellons will be launched in Northern California, federal health officials said Wednesday. The U.S. Centers for Disease ...

The hospitalization of music legend Joni Mitchell on Tuesday night shocked and worried millions of fans. Mitchell was found unconscious at her home and rushed to the emergency room, but the nature of ...

Envision a nightmare of horror, conspiracy, medical mystery, human suffering and cyberspace, and you might get a phenomenon that has come to be called Morgellons disease. In more than 5,000 households ...

Joni Mitchell was hospitalized this week, but the songwriter has been sick for years. She has described her debilitating illness as “a slow, unpredictable killer–a terrorist disease. It will blow up ...

Joni Mitchell was hospitalized this week — could Morgellons have something to do with it? (Photo: Getty Images/Steve Granitz) Singer Joni Mitchell is currently hospitalized after being found ...

The symptoms sound like something straight out of a horror movie: crawling and biting sensations all over the skin, dementia and insomnia, painful sores that never heal and, most terrifying of all, ...