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 ...

An 18-year-old in India was taken to the hospital after complaining of pain and seizures. His parents told doctors that the teen had felt pain in his groin for about a week. Doctors noticed he had ...

A man suffering from seizures, disorientation, and "speaking gibberish" had tapeworms in his brain. Doctors in the new case study said he had carried the parasites for years without symptoms.

When a young man in India started having seizures, doctors scanned his brain and found a grim image: His brain was dotted with parasitic cysts — the result of a severe and ultimately fatal tapeworm ...

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 ...

(CNN) — A Florida man with worsening migraines was found to have parasitic tapeworm larvae in his brain, according to a report published this month in the American Journal of Case Reports. Doctors ...

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 ...

The man had cysticercosis, a tapeworm infection that affects the brain, muscle and other tissues A man living in Boston — who medical personnel say was otherwise in good health — was diagnosed with a ...

An 18-year-old man who went to the emergency room after suffering seizures soon discovered he had parasites in his brain, according to a case study published Wednesday. In addition to tonic-clonic ...

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