Intestinal worms can help reduce inflammation in the human body—but only if they have enough dietary fiber. Without it, they ...

Anna Phillips holds a colorized electron microscope image of a species of tapeworm taken from a cow-nosed ray (“Rhinoptera bonasus”), a marine animal. Produced by Kiersten Jensen at the University of ...

Nearly 850 species of parasites are known to infect people; some, like the potentially deadly plasmodium parasite that causes ...

(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 Florida man suffering from persistent migraines was in for what was likely a nasty shock when he sought medical treatment and learned what was causing the pain. Festering tapeworm eggs were ...

It looks like tapeworms have been upsetting guts for around 100 million years, as paleontologists believe they have discovered the first-ever proper fossil of one of the parasites. The partial ...

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 believe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Florida man suffering from persistent migraines was in for what was likely a nasty shock when he sought medical treatment and ...