Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You can’t wriggle your way out of obesity. Doctors on YouTube have warned viewers that tapeworm egg pills are being sold on the ...

A disturbing case study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. A teenager died from a tapeworm egg infestation in his brain. The 18-year-old had complained of seizures in the emergency ...

In her book Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand states that in the 1930s racehorse jockeys trying to lose weight would swallow a capsule containing a tapeworm egg. The worms would then mature in the jockeys ...

An American mother gave her daughter a pill filled with tapeworm eggs to help her lose weight quickly... and didn't tell her.