Doctors recently warned about a peculiar case of a woman – who, in a bid to lose weight took tapeworm egg pills from the ...

The tapeworm’s head adheres to the intestine wall and the segments of the body, called proglottids, grow as it feeds off the food the host is digesting. Yes, I know, not pleasant to think about ...

Ancient tapeworm eggs found in 270-million-year-old shark poop suggest these parasites may have plagued animals for much longer than previously known, researchers say. Tapeworms cling to the inner ...

A Florida man seeking treatment for his chronic, worsening migraines discovered that he had worm eggs in his brain, which was causing his pain. The unidentified man, 52, went to the hospital ...

"Her brain scan showed more than a 100 white dots, formed due to tapeworm eggs," Dr. Praveen Gupta, director of neurology at Fortis Hospital, told the newspaper.

Doctors Found More Than 100 Tapeworm Eggs in Child's Brain After She Ate Infected Pork. Published Jul 26, 2018 at 1:27 PM EDT Updated Jul 27, 2018 at 3:53 PM EDT.

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 ins… ...

Ancient tapeworm eggs found in 270-million-year-old shark poop suggests these parasites may have plagued animals for much longer than previously known, researchers say.