According to the Morning Post, doctors saw tapeworm eggs in his stool and noted that he had been seen by other doctors for stomach pain and chronic anemia over the prior two years. He was given ...

A 38-year-old man in Shiyan, China had been suffering issues with pain in his stomach, nausea, and an iron deficiency, and when he couldn’t take it anymore, he had visited a hospital to see what was ...

A man from China who loved to eat raw beef has spent two years being examined by different doctors because of stomach pains. The doctors treated him for chronic anemia and stomachache but the ...

DEAR DR. DONOHUE My mom was raised on a farm, and she constantly spoke about tapeworms. She would never serve rare meat. She cooked it through and through. She has been dead for 20 years, and, since ...

A recent medical horror story out of Northern California might make a lot of people want to get their heads checked. But, as it turns out, cysticercosis — a.k.a. tapeworms in the brain — are in fact ...

Tapeworms are parasites that live in the bodies of their hosts including humans. A 38-year-old man from China was one such host -- recently having a 20-foot-long version of the parasite removed from ...

Yikes. Scientific American reports that tapeworms may be on the rise in urban areas–including Chicago, where a man filed suit last year against Shaw’s Crab House for allegedly serving him undercooked ...

Unfortunately, tapeworms have made a reappearance in our culture. Many years ago, tapeworms were very common throughout the world. In the last 50 years, instances of tapeworms in the United States ...