Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Simeon Woods Richardson (illness) recently underwent a procedure to remove a parasite from his digestive tract. Woods Richardson was placed on the injured list in ...

Domestic researchers successfully removed a living parasite from the brain of a patient in their 40s. On the 30th, a joint research team led by Professor Baek Seon-ha of the Department of Neurosurgery ...

Doctors in India have carried out a rare and life-changing surgery to remove a 17-year-old boy’s “parasitic” twin. Parasitic twins occur when one foetus stops developing but remains attached and ...

Related: In extremely rare case, doctors remove fetus from brain of 1-year-old The precise rate at which they occur is unknown, but they're estimated to affect less than one in a million births, ...

Parasitic worms and a chronic liver infection identified in a North Korean soldier who dramatically defected are providing clues into health conditions inside the secretive rogue state, experts said ...