Dear Doctors: There was a story in the news recently about a man who had a tapeworm living in his brain. Our two teenage boys also saw it and are now obsessed. They’re grossed out and fascinated, and ...

If you’ve been online at all these past few weeks, you probably heard about Luis Ortiz, a 26-year-old man in California who had a “still wiggling” tapeworm pulled from his brain—shudder. Parasites in ...

Prepare yourself. The gross out factor of this one is beyond puke level: Doctors In Napa, California, found a tapeworm in a man’s brain that nearly killed him. Just a few days earlier, a CDC ...

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Q: There was a story in the news recently about a man who had a tapeworm living in his brain. Our two teenage boys also saw it and are now obsessed. They're grossed out and fascinated, and they are ...

He’d been perfectly healthy just the night before, but out of the blue, the 38-year-old Boston man was in trouble. His wife reported that he fell out of bed at 4 a.m. and was on the floor “shaking,” ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Tapeworms are revolting no matter where you find them. But when they ...

Seizures in children are usually linked straight away to fever, family history or epilepsy, but doctors still keep running ...

An 18-year-old man who went to the emergency room after suffering seizures soon discovered he had parasites in his brain, according to a case study published Wednesday. In addition to tonic-clonic ...

There are plenty of fad diets circulating the internet these days, ranging from low-carb diet practices, to the (probably) useless gluten-free diets. However, one diet is so dangerous, that the ...

(CNN) — If you eat raw or undercooked fish, you risk developing an infection from parasites. One of the most gruesome is tapeworm, a species of digestive tract-invading parasites that includes ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. If you eat raw or undercooked fish, you risk ...