There are plenty of fad diets circulating the internet these days, ranging from low-carb diet practices, to the (probably) useless gluten-free diets. However, one diet is so dangerous, that the ...

You can’t wriggle your way out of obesity. Doctors on YouTube have warned viewers that tapeworm egg pills are being sold on the dark web as a quick-fix weight loss solution — putting consumers at risk ...

You might think of tapeworms as awful parasites that find their way into your intestine, grow as big as 50 feet long, and cause horrible gastrointestinal issues. But that’s only one step of a larger ...

Wes Siler is your guide to leading a more exciting life in the great outdoors. As Outside’s outdoor lifestyle columnist, he writes about the intersections of science, news, politics, gear, vehicles ...

Tapeworms are flat, segmented worms that live in the intestines of some animals. Animals can become infected with these parasites when grazing in pastures or drinking contaminated water. Eating ...

Dogs are sending us an early warning signal about the spread of a potentially deadly tapeworm in North America. The tapeworm, Echinococcus multilocularis, is normally found in rodents and other wild ...

What Are Pinworms and Tapeworms? Pinworms are also called “threadworms.” They’re the most common type of intestinal worm infection in the U.S. and one of the most common in the world. They’re thin and ...

The following is a blog documenting two Los Angeles Times editors’ attempts to lose weight. It all began on Jan. 10. Tony and I are entering Week Five of our weight-loss challenge. We’ve both dumped ...

X-ray images reveal the disturbing result of a culinary blunder that led to a man becoming infested with tapeworm eggs. Sam ...

Cestoda, commonly known as tapeworms, is a large class within the platyhelminth phylum with about 5,000 species described so far. Recently, researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and ...

Twenty-one-year-old Isabel grew up in the countryside near Maputo in Mozambique. She’s a pretty woman, went to school for six years and comes from a good family. But her chances of marrying and ...