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 ...

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 - ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2010, Mitchell described her Morgellons disease symptoms in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. Mitchell described seeing ...

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 ...

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. Subscribe to read this story ...

Sue Laws remembers the night it began. It was October 2004, and she had been working in the basement home office of her Gaithersburg, Md., brick rambler where she helps her husband run their tree ...