It might sound like something out of a horror movie, but the cause of an Australian woman's severe migraines turned out to be a real-life nightmare. The unidentified 25-year-old barista's case, ...

Physicians in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene detailed the woman’s case, believed to be the first “autochthonous case” — or local acquired case — of neurocysticercosis, a ...

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 ...

12-year-old girl gets tapeworm cyst half the size of a BRAIN removed by doctors A 12-year-old girl has had a tapeworm cyst half the size of her brain removed from her head believed to be the largest ...

The 25-year-old barista had complained about headaches three times a month, for the past seven years. She was prescribed migraine medication but suspected something more sinister was wrong when her ...

A man suffering from severe migraines, obesity and complicated type-2 diabetes was found to have parasitic tapeworm larvae in his brain, which was the result of eating partially cooked bacon, ...

Tapeworms have been making headlines ever since an investigation by The New York Times turned up a deposition Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave in 2012. In it, the independent candidate running for president ...

A Florida man’s agonizing migraines turned out to have a terrifying cause: actual brainworms. In a recent case study, his doctors describe how he developed a parasitic infestation of tapeworm eggs in ...

About 1,000 people in the U.S. are hospitalized annually by neurocysticercosis, which is caused by tapeworm cysts migrating to the brain. reading time 3 minutes Coming down with seizures would be a ...

A man in the U.S. developed a parasitic infection in his brain after regularly consuming undercooked bacon, according to a case study published March 7 in the American Journal of Case Reports. The ...

It might sound like something out of a horror movie, but the cause of an Australian woman’s severe migraines turned out to be a real-life nightmare. The unidentified 25-year-old barista’s case, ...