unwanted guests Man blames severe stomach pain on street food — but nope, it's just a live cockroach living inside his belly Carla Sinclair

foraging Amish family of 11, including baby, sickened by toxic mushrooms — but have no phone to call 911 Carla Sinclair

live piercings, sex and blood 18 people hit with "severe nausea" after watching racy new feminist opera in Germany Carla Sinclair

cannabis Scromiting: a nasty but rare side effect of marijuana use David Pescovitz

wisconsin Reporter sidelined after on-air illness Kevin Reome

illness Cold vaccine tests show promise Mark Frauenfelder

disease Aid workers use computer model to help stop cholera in Yemen dead in its tracks Séamus Bellamy

animation Animator Cyriak has indigestion Rob Beschizza

Kids Inspiring ad for a Toronto children's hospital Andrea James

crackpots RFK Jr.'s scary fiction: Measles vaccine "causes blindness…and death" Carla Sinclair

health Scientists warn of urgent need for H5N1 bird flu pandemic preparations Ellsworth Toohey

painful returns Scorpion stings woman at Boston Logan International Airport — and the little critter gets away Carla Sinclair

outbreaks Unknown disease spreads to 1,000 people, killing 60 so far in DRC — death 48 hours after symptoms Carla Sinclair

science fiction New online short class about one of Philip K. Dick's nuttiest novels David Pescovitz