A shocking medical case from the UK has highlighted the dangers of a rare parasitic brain infection known as neurocysticercosis. Lowri Denman, a 42-year-old woman from Wales, said she was diagnosed ...

A 52-year-old woman’s persistent headaches and hallucinations led doctors to discover tapeworm larvae in her brain. Here’s ...

Medication used for little larvae could provide relief for a disease with debilitating pain and no cure that experts have ...

A DRUG used to treat tapeworms could end women’s suffering from endometriosis, research has suggested. It is estimated that ...

Infections of the human nervous system with larval stages of the pork tapeworm are the most common cause of epileptic seizures in Africa. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have ...

A 52-year-old woman suffering from mysterious hallucinations and headaches discovered that the cause wasn't psychological.

A parasitic tapeworm known as Echinococcus multilocularis — often called the “fox tapeworm” — has been detected for the first time in West Coast wildlife. University of Washington researchers ...

A doctor issued an "urgent warning" after a stomach-churning video of a massive tapeworm being pulled out of a woman's mouth went viral. US-based anesthesiologist Dr. Myro Fugura recorded a video for ...