Doctors in Australia removed a live 3-inch parasitic worm from a woman’s brain, marking the first known human infection by ...

Parasitic brain infections may be the subject of many a horror flick, but presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says this was his reality back in 2010, according to contents of a 2012 ...

Anyone who has weathered a bad stomach bug knows the feeling: a loss of appetite that sets in and lingers, even after the initial illness. For the millions of people around the world who are ...

A 60-year-old man was diagnosed with metastatic cancer after scans showed what doctors thought were tumors in his brain. But when they looked closer, they realized it wasn't a tumor at all but rather ...

Canberra: Scientists this week published information on an unprecedented case in Australia, where they found and extracted a live parasitic worm from the brain of a woman in Canberra. The worm was ...

Doctors did all they could to stop the horror brain-eating amoeba from claiming little Lillian's life, but the infection became too great for her to overcome ...

A man in Spain who feared he had brain cancer turned out to have something else in his head: tapeworms, Gizmodo reports. The 60-year-old went to doctors with worsening headaches and subtle behavior ...

‘Still alive and wriggling:’ Doctors remove 3-inch parasitic worm from woman’s brain in world first ...

Lowri says she is happy to be alive and healthy after her ordeal The first time Lowri Denman knew something was wrong was when she made the horrifying discovery of a metre-long tapeworm after going to ...