A 35-year-old French woman went to the emergency room to report a tingling electric sensation in her legs and trouble walking. The cause: A tapeworm lodged in her spine — swelling so much it ...

Genome sequences of human-infective tapeworm species reveal extreme losses of genes and pathways that are ubiquitous in other animals, species-specific expansions of non-canonical heat shock ...

If you’re brave enough, you can watch video footage of the surgery, including a shot of the wriggling tapeworm inside the patient’s colon, on the NEJM website.

She underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor. Instead, doctors found a tapeworm. Rachel Palma wants people to know that this ‘was such a rare occurrence’ ...

Doctors first thought the man had tuberculosis, but as the worm moved, the man's symptoms changed leading to the disturbing discovery that there was a tapeworm in his brain.

A Chinese woman has had an 8-foot-long tapeworm removed from her stomach after she ate an undercooked holiday meal. Doctors discovered the tapeworm after she complained of feeling unwell.

The presidential candidate has faced previously undisclosed health issues, including a parasite that he said ate part of his brain.

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A Florida man with worsening migraines was found to have parasitic tapeworm larvae in his brain, according to a report published this month in the American Journal of Case Reports. Doctors believe ...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed in a newly revealed deposition from over a decade ago that a worm ate part of his brain before dying inside his head.

Tapeworm in fox poop that will slowly destroy your organs is on the rise The worm indefinitely proliferates into cystic masses in organs, mimicking cancer.