Kennedy reportedly said in a deposition over a decade ago his doctors caught a cyst in his brain, and medical experts told the Times they believe his description matched up with a pork tapeworm ...

In April of this year, he was admitted to the hospital for treatment of a life-threatening tapeworm that was found in his ...

Scans found tapeworm larval cysts in his brain - which cause cysticercosis. Doctors put the condition down to "improper handwashing". They believe the man, who got a tapeworm from eating underdone ...

The surgeons removed it from Palma’s brain and placed it under a microscope. They sliced into it and found a baby tapeworm. “Of course I was grossed out,” said 42-year-old Palma on Thursday.

According to experts who spoke to the Times, it's unlikely that a tapeworm or other parasitic worm would eat part of the brain and that Kennedy would no longer have had cognitive problems if it ...

A volunteer on a charity sanitation project in Madagascar almost died after tapeworms burrowed into her brain. According to Daily Mail, Sherry Fuller, 40, is thought to have picked up the worms ...

London: For the first time, the genome of a rarely seen tapeworm - residing in a British man’s brain for four years - has been sequenced, offering new opportunities to diagnose and treat this ...

Live science reports that, before they become adults tapeworms are larvae that can break down and enter the bloodstream and travel through the body eventually ending up in the person's brain.

A 25-year-old woman's headaches, which were so intense they caused her vision problems, turned out to be from tapeworm eggs in her brain, doctors found. According to the case report, published ...

The 10-meter-long beef tapeworm removed from the body of a 40-year-old woman after taking pumpkin seeds and areca-net extract ...