DALLAS, Texas — What started as headaches turned out to be something much worse for Yadira Rostro. The 31-year-old Garland, Texas, mother never could have prepared herself for what doctors said they ...

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 ...

What to know about tapeworms, the parasites that comes from eating raw or undercooked foods Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything from the NFL to tennis to Simone ...

A Texas brain surgeon successfully removed a tapeworm from a man’s brain after the patient reported severe headaches. Neurosurgeon Jordan Amadio, MD, of Ascension Medical Group in Austin, conducted ...

A Colombian man's lung tumors turned out to have an extremely unusual cause: The rapidly growing masses weren't actually made of human cells, but were from a tapeworm living inside him, according to a ...

The 18-year-old originally went to the hospital because he was experiencing seizures An 18-year-old who went to the emergency room complaining of seizures found out that he had tapeworm eggs in his ...

(CNN) -- Doctors in India were stunned to remove a tapeworm measuring more than 6 feet through a patient's mouth, according to a report published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr.

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom -- A British man kept having headache after headache, and doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong. When they finally conducted an MRI, doctors discovered something ...

FRESNO, California -- WARNING: This story contains graphic content that some readers may find disturbing. Last August, a young man walked into the emergency room with an unusual demand. "He asked me ...

Lovers of raw fish, be warned: The grossest medical malady of 2018 involved a toilet, a tapeworm, and a whole lot of salmon sushi. This story unfolded in January, when the medical podcast This Won’t ...

A woman in Australia was found to have a cyst full of tapeworm eggs in her brain after having suffered from headaches for about a week. Doctors say this is the first case of an Australian catching the ...