Hospital performed a rare minimally invasive surgery on a 45-year-old woman to remove hydatid cysts from her liver, spleen ...

Learn what an ear pit hole is, why some people are born with one, and what science says about its origins. The post Tiny Hole ...

What if one of the world’s most common parasites could subtly influence the brain? The evidence is compelling in mice, ...

Erin Moriarty, who plays Annie January a.k.a Starlight in The Boys, detailed how her health struggles once got so out of hand ...

Generalised, stabbing/throbbing” is how the pain is described in my hospital notes, but the language I used on arrival at A&E that night must have been more colourful. Half an hour before, at around ...

Doctors suspected metastatic brain cancer in a 60-year-old man, but scans revealed pork tapeworm larvae causing neurocysticercosis.

They originally believed their patient had brain cancer, only to later discover he actually had worms inside his head. The doctors detailed their macabre case over the weekend in the journal The ...

When a man in Spain went to the hospital with chronic headaches, brain scans showed poorly defined lesions, or tissue where ...

Agricultural scientists are rethinking their battle plans against plant parasites that cause billions of dollars in annual yield losses for American farmers. Plant-parasitic nematodes cause an ...

Lumps on the back of the neck can often be benign and caused by simple issues like cysts or boils. Swollen lymph nodes, a common cause of neck lumps, may indicate an infection or more serious ...

A deadly parasite that can cause cancer-like tumors has been detected along the West Coast for the first time. According to a study from the University of Washington, new evidence suggests that the ...

Many people who feel a lump under their skin think of cancer. Fortunately, most “lumps and bumps” are harmless, said Thomas Donkar, DO, of St. Luke’s General Surgery. Sometimes they become infected or ...