New York resident Rachel Palma was diagnosed with brain cancer, but on the operating table, doctors discovered that it's not actually cancer that's troubling her. It turns out, a baby tapeworm lodged ...

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 ...

For months, Rachel Palma had been feeling out of sorts. She felt disoriented, experienced hallucinations, had issues holding objects, and constantly flitted between having nightmares or not sleeping ...

Brain tumor, the doctors said. A photo of the tapeworm found inside Rachel Palma’s brain. (Credit: Mount Sinai Health System) After examining scans and ruling out other possibilities, cancer was the ...

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 ...

Doctors have removed a nearly five-inch-long flesh-eating tapeworm from the head of a Chinese man, who became infected 15 years ago. These tapeworms usually live in the intestines of dogs and cats as ...