A brain-invading worm spread by rats and snails is making inroads into the United States. A study this week seems to show the ...

A parasitic worm capable of infecting the human brain has established local transmission in California for the first time, ...

A brain‑invading parasite better known as rat lungworm has quietly surfaced in San Diego County, turning up in wild animals ...

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 ...

A 26-year-old man was cured of an inexplainable epileptic fits after a 10cm-long tapeworm was removed from his brain. According to the South China Morning Post, doctors discovered a live tapeworm ...

Editor's note: The following story contains photos of a tapeworm. When doctors at a New York hospital opened a patient's skull they thought she was suffering from a brain tumor, but instead they found ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Doctors say it's a miracle after an Austin man successfully had a tapeworm removed from his brain. KXAN reports doctors think the man contracted the parasite in Mexico more than a ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Austin man knew something was wrong when he fainted in the middle of a soccer game last year. He’d been dealing with awful headaches and “feeling off,” but his tumble during soccer ...