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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...

A common parasitic infection, neurocysticercosis, is increasingly causing seizures in children, often mistaken for other ...

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 ...

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Luis Ortiz said he had a massive headache before doctors found the parasite. — -- A man's headache that turned out to be the result of a parasitic infection has shed light on a rare condition ...