Most dog owners focus on flea prevention to stop tapeworms, but a far more dangerous threat is quietly spreading across the ...

I ate something on a trip to Brazil and now I’ve been having terrible stomach issues. I’ve read about people who have had tapeworms and I don’t know if I have one. How do you know if you have a ...

Before setting out to assemble a 400-page tome on tapeworms, it might be a good time for a gut check. That's what researchers have spent nearly a decade doing: collecting tapeworms from the digestive ...

Scientists have identified the stem cells that allow tapeworms to regenerate and found that their location in proximity to the head is essential, according to a new study in eLife. These novel ...

While the science world is abuzz about a Colombian man who died from a tapeworm cancer, there are common and serious complications from tapeworms you should know about, because they are avoidable and ...

A parasitic tapeworm that hides silently in the body for up to 15 years is spreading westward across the United States, and ...