A WOMAN who picked up a tapeworm during her travels in India left doctors stumped when she later battled a decade of seizures ...

Researchers believe the patient may have contracted the parasitic tapeworm by sharing a bathroom with someone who was ...

Doctors suspected metastatic brain cancer in a 60-year-old man, but scans revealed pork tapeworm larvae causing ...

Doctors in Spain suspected that a man suffering from chronic headaches had brain cancer. A scan showed a number of ...

A Spanish man's brain lesions looked exactly like cancer - until doctors found a brain tapeworm infection instead. The post ...

Tapeworm infections often occur after consuming contaminated food or water, particularly undercooked meat and unhygienically ...

We have all found ourselves in a place we would rather not be, a school reunion, the never-ending work meeting or a distant relative's wedding reception. In such situations, it is often a good option ...

Cancer cells transmitted from a common tapeworm appear to have caused cancer-like tumors in a Colombian man with HIV -- the first known case of what's called "malignant transformation," U.S. health ...

The parents of an 8-year-old girl suffering from severe headaches and epileptic seizures for months were both relieved and horrified when doctors told them her diagnosis: 100 tapeworm eggs were inside ...